Submitted by Haleigh Kidd on the 2019 fall semester program in Paris, France…
I don’t have much to share this week, unfortunately. If anything, I have had closer encounters with how the French education system works. The start of their fall classes is later than those in America because their system works where you are in school for 6 weeks with a 2 week break in between, but during those 6 weeks all you do as a student is study. It is not how it is in America where you have time to be a student athlete or work a part-time job. Instead, it is 6 weeks of intensive studying. I cannot say which system I like better, only that they both have their pros and cons. So other than getting to know my neighborhood a bit more, I have traveled outside of Paris to see more of the country. Often I feel that when foreigners think of France, they think first and only of Paris, and while Paris is amazing (and the best city in the world in my opinion), Paris and the rest of France are as different as New York City and the farmlands of Iowa or the desert of Arizona. If you go to France and stop only in Paris, you will miss half of the beauty of this country. So far, I’ve spent most of my days going to different places in Normandy, so those are the pictures I will share with you this week.
