Une Petite #TBT

Three Years Ago Today.....I was lucky enough to find myself embarking on a classic collegiate adventure: a semester abroad in Paris, France. I've long been a francophile, dabbled in the language in high school and been obsessed with the Baz Luhrman film Moulin Rouge. Then, my fascination with America Modernist literature (think Hemingway, Fitzgerald, TS Eliot - in other words, Midnight in Paris) blossomed during a sophomore year English class, so Paris was a natural choice for the requisite fall semester away. While it would be impossible to recollect an entire semester - where I went to school, lived with a french family, explored several other European cities, and immersed myself in the Parisian environment over four months - in a single blog post, I wanted to collect and capture the feeling of those first few days in a foreign city. It's very different than visiting somewhere for just a weekend, which is my typical m.o. these days, where I plan ahead of time the best possible use of time and mix of activities to get to know a place or check off famous landmark boxes in just 48 short hours.