{"id":352,"date":"2011-01-31T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/studying-abroad\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:21:00","slug":"robbins-12-settles-into-paris-begins-travel-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2011\/01\/31\/robbins-12-settles-into-paris-begins-travel-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbins ’12 Settles into Paris, Begins Travel Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Robbins ’12<\/em> –\u00a0This past weekend I went to Strasbourg with four friends.\u00a0 It is a city on the Rhine, bordering France and Germany, and the biggest city in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, which has been a contested region between France and Germany for centuries, and most recently during the Second World War.\u00a0 It is therefore a unique place, with a dialect (a distinct language, rather) called Alsacian.\u00a0 It is also the seat of the European parliament.<\/p>\n

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This photo was taken at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art in front of a recreation of a work by Kandinsky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strasbourg is known for its imposing cathedral for which construction began in the 13th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 While standing in the nave, all I could think was that when I visited Abraham Lincoln\u2019s log cabin birthplace in Kentucky, they celebrated that tiny, still standing, \u201cancient\u201d 19th<\/sup> century building.\u00a0 Notre-Dame de Strasbourg has been, by far, the tallest building in Strasbourg for centuries.\u00a0 And cathedrals as big or bigger than it are all over France.<\/p>\n

I guess my point is that I am amazed by this country, and very happy to be here.\u00a0 I am staying in Paris in a single apartment in the 14th<\/sup> arrondissement.\u00a0 My program is called IES Abroad, and every morning I walk about 20 minutes to school \u2013 I can take the Metro if it is raining but it\u2019s such a short distance that it\u2019s a waste of time.\u00a0 To write about the appeal of Paris would be redundant, so I won\u2019t do it.\u00a0 I assure you, it is appealing.<\/p>\n

Back to Strasbourg (after all, traveling is one of the best parts of study abroad) \u2013 we visited the Modern Art Museum which boasts two Picassos, a room full of Kandinskys and a Gauguin.\u00a0 We also went to the international museum for illustration, named after the Alsacian illustrator Tomi Ungerer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other trips I have loosely planned include a trip to Belgium in March, and I will surely go to Spain and Switzerland while I\u2019m here to visit some friends.\u00a0 My program offers trips to places within a reasonable distance from Paris, including Giverny (Monet\u2019s home), Reims (where the French kings were crowned) and the Normandy beaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To making new friends, eating great food, becoming a pedestrian and waiting to climb the Eiffel Tower until it gets warmer.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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