This week marks two months before I officially return to the United States. Since I have been here, the feelings of a grand distance in time and pyhsical understanding have made me wonder where I am, and what I am doing. Paris was a dream, but in a way I am back to a certain [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 17, 2008
Les elections municipales, part two
Yesterday finished off the second round of voting in the municipal elections. After the first round, a general consensus in the press was a slight victory for the left, and a more jaded view of Francois Bayrou’s Mouvement Democratique (MoDem). Since last week, more of the press (especially the Canard with it’s headline “Bayrou opens [...]
March 12, 2008
Unis-Cite, Part 1
Last week was the introduction to my internship, which went fairly smoothly. Apparently, at Unis-Cite, I will be working on several projects during the next two months.
After arriving, I started to work with Emilie, who along with another intern, will be coordinating the GJV, la Grand Journee de Volontairiat. In English, the Grand Day of [...]
March 12, 2008
Les elections municipales
The last month or so in Paris, and well France in general, has been a furious campaign by the political parties for the French equivalent for the midterm elections: les elections municipales. To understand this broad election, there first needs to be some understanding about the administrative divisions in France (ok, please don’t yawn).
France, unlike [...]
March 5, 2008
Securite
Every once and awhile, a topic of conversation seems to come up with French people that I meet…one of how they could not have imagined how September 11th affected me, or my mindset. It’s odd, seeing that this comes up usually as a sense that I am still a victim of an attack that hit [...]
