My Semester Abroad

Local college students — from the Puget Sound area or studying at a Puget Sound university — are traveling the world as part of their studies; several are sending dispatches about discovering their corner of the globe. They welcome your comments and questions.

Editor's note: Thanks to all the students who shared their experiences on traveling and learning. "Semester Abroad" is being discontinued.

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June 16, 2006

"In Paris. Good."

Posted by Laura Geggel at 10:46 AM

Yasemin and I justify our constant consumption of tarts and cafe cremes with the endless amount of walking we do every day; surely the calories must be a wash?

Our hostel has no electricity in the outlets and the walls are peeling white flakes of paint from the walls and ceiling. There's a little computer station downstairs where you can buy six minutes of Internet for a euro. I ran out of time at the end and just barely managed to send my parents the message "In Paris. Good." before my account shut down.

We took in L'Arc de Triomphe, the immense victory arch that Napoleon commissioned in 1810. We had to walk through a rather apartment filled area to get there. The buildings here are so ornate and each window has a small balcony. Reminds me of New Orleans, only the balconies here are free of drunk merriment and flower pots instead inhabit the curvy metal fenced in ledges.

Jennifer Henrichsen
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