Paris is a melting pot of people from all corners of the globe :)

“Paris is always a good idea.” –Audrey Hepburn

            So I have officially been in Paris for a month now and I could not be happier! Everything is going great! I have the apartment of my dreams, grad school is amazing, I love the city, and the people here are fantastic. I haven’t had much of a chance to get out and see the sights since school started but I did before I started school. I went to Notre Dame and the Sacre Coeur, the Luxemburg Gardens and the Eiffel Tower. I actually got to go up the Eiffel Tower for the first time since I got back the other day. I’ve been up to the top several times before but it’s always new and exciting.

            Graduate school is not what I expected. I mean it is, and it isn’t. It’s a lot of reading, which was to be expected, and there are a lot of projects versus undergraduate where you have a lot of pop quizzes and exams. This is more theory based research projects and interpretation of documents and authors of treaties. That may be more specific to the fact that I am studying global communications, which has a lot to do with the United Nations, NGOs (non government organizations) and multinational corporations signing big treaties that effect people around the globe.

            All of my classes are fascinating but I think the one that will be the most challenging for me personally is going to be my Digital Media Practicum. It’s going to help me to create a professional online portfolio, which means the use of social media that I would not normally use as well as tweaking my LinkedIn Profile and updating my Facebook to be more current. I now have a Twitter called AngelicInParis you can follow as well as a blog on Tumblr called AngelicGoesGlobal and most recently an Instagram account as well called AngelicGoesGlobal. I’ll be writing for www.peacockplume.fr the American University of Paris media page in the Opinion column on the right hand side of the screen. So you can follow me all over.

            I was going to join the yoga club but unfortunately it meets the same time my Digital Media Practicum meets on Monday nights so I will have to stick to my ashtanga practice I do by myself in the mornings. So far classes are great! I love my professors and my classmates; all very cool people from all different backgrounds and countries. I think that is what I love most about AUP. The diversity is unbelievable! I have classmates from Austria and South Africa, Columbia and Armenia. I have professors from Australia and the United States as well as the UK. It’s such a wonderful cultural mix of people who all come from different places in the world and different places in their lives.

            Paris is an amazing city full of wonderful people from all over the world. It’s literally a melting pot of all the cultures, ethnicities, languages and people you can think of from all the corners of the globe. They say America is the great melting pot well I beg to differ. Next time I’ll be talking about tattoos in Paris, or the lack thereof. Til next time.