Before I even thought of working as an English assistant, and well before I knew of the existence of Reunion Island, I read a 17th French book called “Indiana,” by a woman who went by the pen name of Georges Sands. It was a crazy book about some Creole woman who lives in France and is married to some fierce military general. At the same time it was rather soap opera-y, with Indiana falling for some idiotic romantic named Raymond, who had already had a love affair with her best friend, but she didn’t know it….it gets way more complicated, but the point is, towards the end of the book she returns home to Ile de Bourbon, and the descriptions are amazing, of the tropical climate, the ocean, and best of all, the beautiful jungles with splendid waterfalls.
As soon as I got into the program I looked up Reunion on Wikipedia, only to discover that its original name was Ile de Bourbon….and today I saw that waterfall that I’ve been looking forward to seeing. We walked there.
