I can’t believe it has been almost two weeks since the program ended, and one week since I’ve been back in the US. This trip felt simultaneously like it went slowly and like it went by in the blink of an eye, maybe because we did so much in such a short amount of time. This…

My apartment is in the 12th district of Paris; CEA, where our classes are held, is in the third district. This makes it sound like our commute would be very long, but Paris’ districts are arranged like a snail, so these are not actually as far from each other as you might think. The day…

Coming into this experience, I knew very little about my housing situation. For a long time, all we were told was that we would be in shared apartments. Finally, about two weeks before my departure, I got more information. All I was given was an address and the names of my roommates, but not much…

Hello! My name is Rosemarijn Saleh, but I go by Rosa. I am so lucky to get to say I will be studying abroad for a month in Paris, France, this summer. I grew up in a suburb of  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania called Merion Station. I know lots of people say they are from “outside of…