Chapter 3: Jumping in with Both Feet
Since Amir was not attending classes during his recuperation, we were able sometimes to Skype a little more often. Once in a while we would Skype in the early morning hours, before I went to work, for the time difference made that late morning for him. Always he would ask how the trip plans were coming. I had already been online to see what a flight from Montreal to Algiers, probably through Paris, would cost. After all, my plans had to be in place before applying for the visa.
The time off turned out to be an easy thing. My boss offered me two weeks in August when almost no one else was off. That would give me a little more time to come up with the money.
“You can’t come any sooner?” Amir asked, a little disappointed.
“Those two weeks were all that
