While I believe the saying “there’s no place like home” holds true, I must say that, to me, there is also no place like Paris. This April, I returned for the first time since living in France three years ago. In the weeks before my departure, I found myself oddly nervous about what this trip would be like. Had Paris changed? Had I? The moment I was on the flight speaking in French again and sipping wine, the butterflies in my stomach were replaced by excitement. My former roommate Chantal offered that I could stay with her during my visit. I [View Full Entry]

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Well, a welcomed break came in the middle of February and I took the chance to flee the grey weather in the city for sunny and colorful Mexico! Mama has taken a month over the last three years to go to Mexico in order to learn Spanish and experience the culture. For many reasons it seemed that now would be a great time to learn Spanish- not that I needed any excuse to travel or learn a something new! So, I met Mama for a week in Mexico where I found myself overwhelmed by the experience. Everything seemed enhanced, like it [View Full Entry]

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Happy 2008 to you all! The Fox family set sail in the Caribbean for a 10-day adventure that proved to be a true vacation and some quality family time. We left Denver the day after Christmas leaving behind a foot of snow and setting our sights to San Juan, Puerto Rico. We only had one full day to really enjoy Puerto Rico, so we woke up early to walk the streets of Old San Juan. Even though we were sill in America, we noted that the cultural differences abounded. We did not know it yet, but we were settling into “island [View Full Entry]

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I’m just back from a five-week adventure in another French speaking place-Québec! After some debating between returning to France for the summer or trying out Québec I decided to enroll in a 5 week intensive language program in Chicoutimi (a town of about 70,000 people 2 hours north of Québec City) at the University of Québec. It was marvelous! After Paris I completed my degree at CU Boulder, but, sadly, did not have the time to take any French courses. So I was rather rusty going into this program after a year away from the language. Anyway, I grabbed a plane [View Full Entry]

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Well things here are all wrapped up and I am on the plane moving home! It is hard to believe I made it through a year isn’t it?! Of course I had much support from family and friends, so thank you. Since Ireland I have been on yet another adventure of a lifetime...I am so blessed! My mom and I set off to make our way to the Balkans from Paris and had many incredible experiences along the way….we will see if I can paint any picture of what it was like for you all. Leaving Paris we took the fast [View Full Entry]

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This ending led to a wonderful beginning! My program is over, all papers are written and turned in, all tests have been taken, and a year of study completed. It was extremely hard parting with my "new" friends but I think we all have faith that we will not lose touch-and at the very least we’ll always have Paris. Since then I’ve been spending more time away from Paris than in it strangely! A Colorado friend met me shortly after my program’s end and we visited Versailles and then left sizzling Paris for some fun in Switzerland. We started in Geneva [View Full Entry]

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Hello out there- Greetings from a somewhat sunny day here in Paris! I’ve been keeping busy with a mix of work and play over the past few weeks that is quickly becoming more play and less work: woo hoo! School is about over, I have only one more final on Wednesday and then I am done! It is hard to believe that I made it. I came over with such low expectations for my academic performance but in the end have done well and was able to turn out one 10-page paper and two 7-page papers in the last two weeks, [View Full Entry]

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I hope this entry finds you all well in your corners of the world. As many of you know things have been a little unsteady in my family as Mary Anna has developed a rather large and stubborn kidney stone. So that has been first on everyone’s mind for the past few weeks. Things are looking up there (thankfully!) and so here is what has been going on over on this side of the pond. After my glorious adventure to Morocco I hopped a train down to a little town outside of Valence, France to see Colette and Léopold (my adopted [View Full Entry]

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I am a bit at a loss as to how to put the trip into words or how to organize this update! Here we go I guess…. Winnie and I set off for our 11-day Morocco adventure with very lightly packed bags and a lot of gusto! We arrived in Marrakech (north-central Morocco) in the afternoon and as we walked down the stairs onto the tarmac all I could think was "I’m in AFRICA!" The taxi ride was smooth and our French useful, and at last we landed in our hotel. They did not have a reservation for us so we [View Full Entry]

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I hope this blog finds you all well!! I have, as usual, had another wonderful few weeks in Paris, and of course my experiences are rather varied and abundant. My Art History course this semester went to the Centre Pompidou (the modern art museum), which has been really helpful to me in that it gave me a much greater understanding of what Surrealism and the movements that followed were trying to get across with their 'radical' art. My dear friend Dustin came to visit! He flew all the way from Colorado to spend his spring break walking the streets of Paris [View Full Entry]

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