The next, and last, day, I checked out the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica.  I absolutely loved my tour guide, and I just don’t’ know how else I would have survived that tourist death trap if I didn’t have someone guiding me through.  Plus, she was so knowledgeable!  I finished off [...]

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Friday night my friend Sam, from Amherst College, and I decided to cut his hair. I trim my own hair from time to time, and I’ve also completely cut it all off before, so I didn’t really hesitate when he asked me to cut his. Pretty soon, all of our mutual friends in the Sweet [...]

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My parents and some of my friends asked me how France views the current financial crisis in the United States which leads me to believe that a lot of the people in the U.S. have NO IDEA that the whole world is now completely destroyed economically. Everyday, in every paper in Paris, there is an [...]

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So actually, that was supposed to be “Auf Wiedersehen” even though it sounds like the W is a V. (Typo!) 
Oktoberfest was great.  We woke up at 7 am so we could get to the beer garden-tent-things and grab a seat.  I went with my friend Lena, her boyfriend, and her two friends, and I wore [...]

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I still haven’t started classes yet, but I’m seriously looking forward to it.  Classes in Art History at the Sorbonne-Paris IV start on October 6th, and since I was sick last week, my classes at Sweet Briar start this Wednesday!  I’m not sure what to expect as far as coursework and as far as the [...]

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Actually Paris is not burning, that was a title stolen from an awesome St.
Vincent song.  What actually burned was the battery charger to my Macbook, which explains my absense.  Allow me to rant now.  I finally moved to Paris last Thursday to a new host family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where I will be living until the [...]

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I arrived in France almost two weeks ago, but instead of going directly to Paris, everyone in the Sweet Briar Junior Year in France program is stuck(?) in Tours, France. We’ve been going through a sort of pre-orientation, and it has actually been quite lovely, but I’m getting anxious for Paris.
Every weekday we have [...]

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