Memories of Paris

After the white hair, here's another novelty whose memory will remain forever linked to this city: eyeglasses.  

Two days ago, Josh's teacher sent me an email inviting me to have him checked by an ophthalmologist because it seemed that there were problems in copying words correctly on the board ...really? With all those accents, what did she expect? I thanked her and started the long search for an ophthalmologist who had a waiting list less than two months. I was lucky: after only five phone calls, the appointment was set for today. Obviously I did the math wrong with Josh extracurricular commitments, so I had to cancel her lesson in climbing! We arrived in pouring rain to the clinic and after about an hour of waiting we were received by a young French doctor, very kind. I was ready to act as an interpreter and instead, with amazement, I have seen the profits (eventually) in the first six months of learning the French language by Josh: he calmly explained to the doctor all the symptoms : fatigue, some headaches, blurred vision. Bravo Josh, this school is paying off! In short, the final diagnosiswas hypetropia (no laziness in copying tasks, such as I had initially thought ...) and the therapy are the glasses. I paid a visit to the specialist (90 euros, not exaggerated, given that with the Carte Vitale that I had carried with me I will receive a reimbursement of 70% directly to my bank account within the next two weeks) and I went with the prescription to the optician's shop next to the school of Josh. The kid was not particularly thrilled by the outcome of the visit, but when confronted with a wall full of colored glasses,  he seemed to have forgotten the initial shock and and he try a pair of glasses  after another for about thirty minutes. Amazing offer: two glasses for the price of one! Since I'm positive that  the first pair will be lost or will break within a week, we ordered two pairs, with scratch-resistant lenses, anti shock, anti-glare, anti breakage, anti theft ... in short,  bombproof. 

They will be ready in a couple of days at which point, however, there will be no more excuses for poor copying  the words in the notebook ....