As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this is my four-month-anniversary-and-one-week-left-in-Aix sentimental post. Although I’m sure I’ll have better and deeper reflections on my experience here once I’m back in my regular life in America, …
Aix en Provence
94 Days Outside of America
As of two days ago, I’ve been living in France for three months. What a strange amount of time to be somewhere! On one hand, I feel like I’ve settled into a sweet spot of …
Vineyard Tour in Provence
Although I’ve spent most of my time on this blog talking about the significance of bread in France, there is in fact one thing that is maybe even more important to the French: their wine. …
A Day in the Life
In the days, weeks and months leading up to my departure for my study abroad program, I was pretty much obsessed with the unknown of daily life in France. I spent hours scouring every past …
A Taste of Home
This past week was a taste of home for me in more ways than one. Both my best friend and my uncle’s family visited within a week of each other, and being with them, I …
Paris
For as long as I can remember, my romantic, Francophile heart has always been set on Paris. As far as I could tell from my steady diet of romantic comedies and teen literature, it was …
Ode au pain
So, I know I’ve expounded on the wonders of French bread before on this blog, but today in one of my classes I had to write a short essay about a cultural cliche, and I …
Two-month musings
Well, I missed my two month anniversary in Aix-en-Provence (yesterday), but in honor of the occasion, here are some musings on the top of my mind at this point in my experiment abroad. 1. Why …
Winter Break
o in February, my university gave us a one-week vacation—which seemed odd to all of us, considering we had just started classes a couple of weeks prior, but I don’t think any of us were …
Provençal dinner
On Saturday night, a bunch of us headed to Monoprix (the ubiquitous grocery store chain here), gathered up as much cheese, wine, and pasta as we could collectively hold, and headed back to a friend’s …