Category: France: Hollins Paris

On October 6 I went to Copenhagen for the weekend with three of my friends. I had the idea to rent bikes just like in Amsterdam so we did! We got to see the mermaid statue which is where the story of the little mermaid originated from. We went to the National Museum of Copenhagen…

On September 29 I went to Amsterdam with a friend. Everybody in Amsterdam rides bikes so we decided to rent bikes as well. It was a great decision because this enabled us to get to see so much more of the city. We went to the Anne Frank Museum which is actually the secret annex…

On September 22 I went to Marseille for the weekend with two of my friends. They also go to Rollins with me and it was an incredible experience. We went to Basilique de Notre Dame de la Garde which is the highest point in Marseille. The view is incredible overlooking the entire city and the ocean….

On Tuesday August 30, I will be departing to Paris where I will stay for almost 4 months. I will be staying with a French family which consists of 2 brothers and a mother. For my luck I will be 5 minutes walking distance from the American Business School of Paris. This is of great convenience…

November flew by so quickly – almost quicker than my flight to Paris. One of the high lights of this month was getting to celebrate Thanksgiving here in Paris even though it’s not a French holiday. Originally my brother was going to come visit me in Paris for Thanksgiving but due to the attacks our…

November has been a very interesting month. The Paris attacks have changed many things. I was in Place de République just the Thursday before with some friends. It’s strange to think that something like that can happen anywhere really at just a moment’s notice. Fortunately, I was not in Paris at the time of the…

This month has been crazy. First of all, fashion is officially over – and as someone interested in fashion who also plans to work in the industry, plus being in Paris for the holy grail of weeks out of the year, it was a lot to keep up with. The internship I have hear was…

The first week of October has been very interesting. I’m starting to get a very good feel for all of my classes and how to handle the fact that they’re entirely in French. My Impressionism course would be too easy if it were in English, but the French art vocabulary is something I do not…

I’ve come to learn that a tourist visits Paris, a Parisian exists in Paris, and a transplant first survives and then thrives – under the right conditions. These conditions almost exclusively require an individual to have the characteristic of a very, very, very, very open minded, patient, willing to try new things, and mostly, remain…

Arriving in Paris The culture shock was as immediate as it was shocking. There was no secret to the fact that I had landed in a country far different from my home. I had been to Paris before, but I just don’t remember it being such a cultural tsunami. After being stopped at a security…