Happy Bastille day! I haven’t written a post since Versailles kicked my derrière, but I’m trying to get back to it! This week we saw a lot of fun, interesting places, including the Opera Garnier, the Opera Bastille (where we … Continue reading
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Paris is a massive city, with a very diverse conglomeration of peoples and ethnic groups that comprise the city. I want to explore these groups, talk a little about them, where they are in the city, and how they add to the food culture of Paris and a t…
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“When entering the Sainte-Chapelle, one is dazzled by the irridescent splendour of the Saint-Louis stained-glass windows which coloured reflections are displayed inside the chapel, laying here and there rainbow colours.” (p. 34, “Third Day Morning”). Though this guide loses some … Continue reading
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GIANT disclaimer!! I really did love Versailles, and Chloe is tired of hearing both my trademark “I liked this more than I thought I would” and “THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER,” both of which I said at Versailles. First off, Versailles gardens are my new favorite thing ever, and I could have spent the …
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For today’s fun filled excursion, we embraced our inner tourist and visited both the Eiffel Tower and the Opera Garnier. Although visiting the Tower was a fun experience and would make for an overall amazing Lego build, I’ll save that for later in the week (July 14th). Instead of talking about the Tower and … Continue reading
While we did talk briefly about playgrounds in Paris during class, I thought it was a very interesting topic and wanted to analyze it. I…
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The modern urban city is a relatively new innovation in the scheme of the natural world. Animal species, faced with the rapid, enormous advancements of the industrialization of the human race, have been forced to adapt to new human-induced lifestyles or face extinction. Despite the expansion of urban cities in recent years, many urban animals […]
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VERSAILLES! Oh, Versailles. What a beautiful, gaudy, gargantuan labyrinth. Personally, I thought the garden was more beautiful, while the castle was more gaudy. Though maybe I was just tired. Wandering through mazes of carefully manicured flowers and hedges lined by … Continue reading
7/9: Have you seen my garden? Read More »
The Parisian built environment is just like the built environment of any other thousand-year old city – it has an old section (or multiple old sections), and newer sections. I tend to prefer the old sections of cities and towns, both when I’m traveling and at home in the US, but I’ve discovered a love … Continue reading Postmodern and Contemporary Paris
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Before traveling to Paris, I traveled to Egypt in March 2019 and London in March 2020, so the HISP trip to Paris is the first since the beginning of the pandemic. Prior to my Egypt trip, when I told people where I was going, I got a huge variety of reactions from friends, teachers, and … Continue reading Stereotypes … vrai ou faux?
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