My internship experience in Paris was an amazing time in my life both professionally and personally. Throughout my time there, I had the chance to see many new things, meet new friends and connections, as well as develop my professional skills. My experience was unique compared to many others who have taken the same program…

From what I’ve grown up seeing, I mainly believe that America has a very specific sense of being successful in societal terms. One if not the most common way of showing success in the U.S. is by making a lot of money at your job. You can be considered successful if you have an amazing…

With my internship being centered around both french and english, as well as spanish once in a blue moon, I’ve had quite a time navigating the myriad of languages and figuring out some of the miscommunication barriers that I have encountered. With some of the children I supervise and some of my coworkers, whether it…

Being part of a business like Pari-Grandir is not a new experience to me. For the majority of my work, I am in charge of supervising a smaller group of kids and hosting activities for them to complete. While my work has also been able to give me a few projects relating to translation, this…

It’s now been about almost 4 weeks since I’ve traveled to France for my internship. The entire process has been quite eventful with my hoststay and internship getting canceled within the span of 3 days, and then subsequently having to find a new one. It was very stressful and a little overwhelming but now that…

This Wednesday, I’ll have been in France for about 3 weeks now. It’s been really fun getting to see everything and live as a quasi Parisian for so long. Even so, being in Paris has shown me that as expected, there’s going to be some uncomfortable times when you live in a foreign country. Some…

For the first week of the internship, I have been tasked with translating a variety of recipes, conversations, and have explored some of the other projects I had wanted to work on for Monsieur Berté, such as finding a cost effective merchandising and talking about revamping his website. With the few projects that he had…

Bonjour tout le monde! It’s been about 5 days since I’ve landed in Paris and it’s been really fun adapting to everything. Tomorrow, I start my internship at Les Coulisses du Chef, a cooking class business run by Chef Olivier Berté. I would consider this internship as one in hospitality and tourism, while still being…

Hello! My name is Charles Wolf and I’m currently a rising senior student at the University of Pittsburgh. I am majoring in both French and Spanish and have been studying languages since middle school. Learning languages is both a passion of mine, and is fortunately a field in which I can pursue further for professional…