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Sujet bac 2010 : Anglais LV2 Série S – MétropoleBACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL
SESSION 2010
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ANGLAIS
Séries L et S
LANGUE VIVANTE 2
Série L Durée 3 heures – Coefficient 4
Série S Durée 2 heures – Coefficient 2
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But the best of all the stories were, naturally, the ones told by my mother’s father, since after all he was the only one of my relatives who’d made the remarkable trip to America and has been old enough at the time to have anything to remember about it. How was the trip to America, you want to know? my grandfather would repeat, chuckling softly, when I interviewed him about his life. I couldn’t tell you, because I was in the toilet throwing up the whole time! But of course this self-deprecating joke, meant to suggest that there was no story to tell, was part of the story of his coming to America, a story, as I knew, that had many chapters. In no particular order, I remember, now, these stories: the one about he and his sister, my glum Aunt Sylvia, whom he always called Susha and whose name appears on the passenger manifest, now available online through the Ellis Island database, as Sosi Jäger, had travelled “for weeks” to get from Lwow to Rotterdam “where the boat was waiting,” he would say, and being a child with little knowledge of the world, I would be impressed, back then, to think that such a big boat would wait for these two young people from Bolechow, a false impression that my grandfather did little to correct; and then how, after the long trip on the train, from Lwow to Warsaw, then Warsaw through Germany to the Netherlands, they almost missed the boat, because the girls had such long hair. Because the girls had