Anticipating My Trip to Paris...

I actually wrote this before our trip to Paris....but I never posted it on my blog. So here goes...


Before last year, I honestly did not believe that I would ever get to visit Europe. I always felt that I would never have enough money to buy a plane ticket, or to find time in my schedule to actually go. Even when this opportunity arose to go to Paris on a TravelLearn program with Kean University, I didn't think I would be able to participate for a number of reasons. First and foremost, I didn't think my parents would go for it. Secondly I felt that my school schedule would be too demanding to take a week off and go to Paris. However, much to my surprise, my parents were all for me going to Paris. Also, I felt that I would be able to fit it comfortably into my school schedule.

Now that I am going to Paris, I am very excited. I immediately started to look up different activities that I would be interested in while in Paris. The most obvious would have to be to visit the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre museum. Another thing I would like to do is to visit the Stade de France. I am a very big soccer fan, and I would love to visit the very popular stadium where many World Cup games have been played. I would also like to visit Notre Dame (not the University). The kid in me would also like to visit Disneyland; it would be interesting to see the similarities and differences from Disney World in Florida. In an interesting note, I have a friend who goes to school in Philadelphia who will also be in Paris on a school trip around the same time we will be there. It would be exceptional if I could meet up with her and experience all that Paris has to offer with her.

The activities that the Media and Film staff are planning are going to be very exciting as well. I can't wait to go to Paris. And for 6 credits, I would have been crazy not to go!