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An Inside Look at France’s Wine Culture
For whatever the reason I had difficulty sleeping a couple nights last week. After tossing and turning for over an hour, I started writing in hopes that it’d empty my head so I could calm down and get a good night’s rest. I started making a list of all the things I’m going to miss…
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Nearing the End
After this past weekend, there’s only one excursion left with my study abroad group. I can’t believe it’s already April! The semester is almost over! Still, I’ll be here through May, so I still have lots of time to explore La Côte d’Azur. Though the next few weeks I won’t be doing much exploring, because I…
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Paris, je t’aime
People are too harsh on les Parisiens. In any big city you’ll find people who don’t have the patience to deal with you, and I don’t blame them, because when you have a lot to do being polite isn’t first on your to-do list. Yes, I’ve come across people who were unnecessarily rude (like a woman in…
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Vacation, Part III: England
England, our last stop! By the time we got here we were getting pretty worn out. While we were in London we all pretty much did our own thing, because after spending so many days together in such close quarters, it seemed like we all wanted a little space. One of my friends and I…
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Vacation, Part II: Scotland
Scotland is quite possibly my new favorite place. At least the lowlands of Scotland. Or, more specifically, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Here are the 5 reasons why: 1) The Weather While I was in Scotland, the weather reminded me of Seattle, because it’d rain for a little bit (but just a drizzle, so it was still…
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Vacation, Part I: Ireland
From February 21st through March 2nd, I traveled with two friends for our week-long vacation from SKEMA. Because I crammed so much into this vacation, I’ve decided to post about those days in three parts. Starting with Ireland: I’d always envisioned Ireland as very wet and very green, and this turned out to be a…
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Art in Practically Every Medium Imaginable
This week my host mom helped a couple friends and I make quiche! We went to the grocery store together to buy ingredients for two quiches: the crust, eggs, spinach, mushrooms, cheese, crème fraîche, and then turkey and chicken for one quiche and ham for another. My host mom explained that it’s the eggs, cheese…
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Firenze
This weekend I went back to Italy to visit a good friend of mine who’s studying in Florence (or Firenze, as the Italians say. Why don’t we just call cities by their real names?). Before I left, my host mom warned me before that Italy always seems to be having problems with their trains. Sure…
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Visiting Italy and more of France
I exhausted myself with all the traveling and walking I did this week! On Wednesday, since I don’t have class, I spent the day in Nice. I visited the MAMAC, the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporaine, to escape the rain. Reading descriptions of the artwork in French was good practice for me. There was…
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My First Overnight Trip
Even though my host mom told me my French has improved, I still have a lot of room for improvement. At dinner one night this past week, I tried to explain to a waiter that my friends and I were hoping we could order some appetizers while we waited for a few more friends to…