A recounting of the last few days through photos of faces. On Wednesday, we visited the Louvre Museum. While visiting the largest museum in the world has been on my bucket list for years and we were able to see many different artworks (many of which had faces), the highlight was certainly this: No, not …
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Visitors to the Opera Garnier find breathtaking mosaic art both high above and directly below their feet. It seemed to me as if the entire building was a set built for high society’s social drama with nearly every surface in the building decorated in some extravagant and mind boggling manner. Nearly everywhere I looked I… Continue reading Myth and Music in Marble
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Week One Complete! I’ve now officially spent a week in Paris! I’m baffled at how many things we’ve seen already and how many we’ve yet to see, and I want to take in every bit of it I can (at least to a reasonable extent, there’s only so much walking I can handle). Design That … Continue reading Bonjour, Paris!- Blog Post 1
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With Tuesday’s daybreak came the cool sensation of a breeze, a feeling that I had long taken for granted until I was met with the hottest days in Paris with no AC. Even better than the breeze, however, was the view of the sunset at the end of the cramped street I had just stepped …
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My favorite people I’ve met in Paris (so far): The American friends who studied abroad in Italy 30 years ago. The man was wearing a gorgeous outfit, consisting of a yellow skirt, layered necklaces, and a billowy top. The woman wore a white shirt and red lipstick. She had a pretty smile. It made meContinue reading “Connection transcends language”
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My flight to Charles De Gaulle was at 10:00 pm on Monday, June 30th. The flight, just the same as any other economy flight, was cramped and sterile with the addition of a flimsy blanket and a neck pillow. 7 hours and 40 minutes of disrupted sleep and a stiff neck. thoughts wandered my head, …
This weekend I visited both Versailles and the Musée des Archives Nationales (the museum of France’s National Archives). Versailles was part of a trip organized by the study abroad organization while I visited the National Archives on my own with my friends. Left: Versailles gardens, Right: Courtyard of the Musée des Archives Nationales The gardens…
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On Friday, July 4th, the class went to Notre-Dame as part of our class meeting. Seeing Notre- Dame in person was a lifelong dream come true. Visiting Notre-Dame has been on my bucket list for probably a decade, which at this moment is half of my life. Seeing it and hearing the bells ring as we […]
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So I live in Fredericksburg, and I pretty much never go more than three miles away from my apartment in downtown. Fredericksburg has a population of roughly 28,000 people, and I know a lot of them! You can easily go outside and see only a handful of other people on the street at any given […]
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Hi! I’m Megan. We’ve spent the week getting settled in Paris, surviving the first, but probably not the last, heatwave of our time here. I have spent a combined 110 euros on fans and I have no regrets. I do not leave my house for this long, ever. My routine has been disrupted and I […]
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