The very first flight filled exclusively with students took the direction of Montreal on Monday, August 16. While some stop in Canada, others continue on their way to Paris. This year, nearly 280 young people are leaving the region for studies.
To date, 92 students will gradually join Canada. They are 186 to have chosen metropolitan France. The first flew aboard the ATR-42 on Monday. They were about forty.
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Among them, there are those who leave the family cocoon for the first time and others like Alice. This is the second time that the young girl has gone to study in Montreal. This time, she leaves Saint-Pierre more serene: “there is less stress than last time “. And for good reason, the year 2020 will have been marked by the health crisis. Even if the pandemic is still relevant, this return to school is easier for Alice and her comrades.
It will still be better since we start to reopen and life begins to move a little.
Young people are often eagerly awaited starting their studies each year. It is also a formidable moment for the students and their parents, well aware that this remains an obligatory step in the absence of faculties in the archipelago. For families “we have to go through it“.
We would like to keep them with us. After all it’s their life […] we deal with it.
At Saint-Pierre Pointe Blanche airport, the emotion was palpable as noted by Karim Augustin Baïla and Allison Audoux.
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