I'm back in Ann Arbor! I would give more detailed news about my exams, return to France, 5 cm of snow at Paris and its consequences ...
But let me tell you very briefly a very funny moment in the American bureaucracy that has happened today. Since my return, I am in battle against the university that makes me pay since the beginning of my stay I have health insurance already paid in France. The state of Michigan requires universities to mandate health coverage to meet certain conditions extremely accurate. So I had to be completed by my mutual form, waiver , some sort of exemption. The problem is that as these formalities are not resolved, the university blocked me signing up for the second half.
After an interminable correspondence with each other to get what my form, I'll be back in the office of the person in charge with my precious paper received in the morning. Some checks to see if my plan matches the conditions of the university, no problem, in most cases it exceeds the demands of the school except one, motherhood! I look a little surprised, and said, somewhat embarrassed, there is enough little chance that I get pregnant. He replied that the university requires this because the law prohibits discrimination based on sex of the person. But what is there discrimination here? There is only one case in the world of a man who could birth, and yet he was born biologically female.
This anecdotal case they agreed to refund me though have refused to another exchange student meets all requirements except the maternity-illustrates just one of the scourges of American society (and to some extent French society) I face every day: the prosecution. Everything is likely lead to a trial and thus protects everyone and nobody is responsible.
Leaving the office, I walk through the building and past unisex toilets, another legal requirement. A few yards away, near the door, I see one of those yellow signs that sees North America and McDonald's in France that you warn that the soil can be wet and now you can beat you up You have been warned.
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