January 2012
13 posts
new mission
Now that I feel a lot more comfortable with living in Paris, I’ve decided I’m going to try really really hard to do something new everyday. Whether it’s trying a new food, wandering somewhere different or exploring a new museum, I want to make the most of my time left here (which is still over 6 weeks, but still)
So I’m going to try to continually edit this post...
Oui! Yes! Si! Vale!
What an amazing trip!! This past weekend, I headed to Barcelona, Spain with Katie and Caroline to see our friends who are in the Chicago program there. We got there midday on Friday and started exploring immediately. Since apparently Spainards are really up on walking, we adventured around the area near my friends’ dorm (La Residenca Onix). Within 5 minutes, we were right at the Spanish...
Parisian life
Now that I’ve been living in Paris for almost 2 weeks, there are a lot of things to recap and jot down about my time here.
On arrival via the Eurostar from London, I got into Gare du Nord in the early evening. Exhausted and culture shocked to the max, I quickly threw my oversized bags off the train and wandered around until I found the taxi queue. Such lines are apparently the only way to...
Bonjour!
So I’ve been in France for about 4 days now and I have to say, I’m doing a lot more than I realized. Apart from going to and from my classes (the UC center is about 20-30 min ride on the train from my dorm, Cite Internationale, and doing hundred of pages of reading (The Prince, Oration on the Dignity of Man, Gargantua, to name a few), here are a few of the things I’ve...