Kevin Tang
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Kevin Tang
"My Life In France" is a book by Julia Child, a popular American chef, author and television personality who is considered to have introduced Americans to French cuisine. I have never read this book and only heard about the author from a film called Julie and Julia, who's posters are everywhere in Paris, but this is also a film that I have never seen.
Why I begin my personal entry with the title of this book is because it was the title alone that inspired me to begin writing my travel blog. What is so interesting about anyone's life in France? Why France? What is it about France that has made it the subject of so much intrigue and fascination for Americans? Why are her experiences in France worthy of being published and not mine? So in the hopes of answering some of these questions and documenting travels and my life in France, I have started this blog.
I am an American student in my last year of college, and have taken plenty of time to get to this point. I am studying history, political science and international relations with an interest in American and French history and politics. I have chosen these majors because of my interest in them and because of my passion for cartography and map-making, because they are surprisingly related. It is out of a passion for accurate but beautifully designed maps that I have an interest in traveling; it's all about the spaces and the spaces between, which in the design of maps, is something that can be adjusted to a degree to look nice and to be aesthetically pleasing, and to pique the viewers curiosity. It is for this love of space and places that I travel and feel the need to describe my experiences; because every place is different. And it is for this reason that I have made this travel blog.