{"id":1659,"date":"2018-07-11T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:50:12","slug":"frey-19-talks-his-lessons-on-nationalism-identity-and-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2018\/07\/11\/frey-19-talks-his-lessons-on-nationalism-identity-and-cuisine\/","title":{"rendered":"Frey ’19 Talks His Lessons on Nationalism, Identity, and Cuisine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Frey ’19 Rudolph Scholarship<\/em> – Mark Twain wrote in The Innocents Abroad<\/em>, \u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.\u201d After spending two weeks (out of four; thank you Rudolph Family for your generous scholarship) in Toulouse, France for my summer study abroad, I would agree with Mr. Twain. The amount I\u2019ve grown, both in the French language and in my world view, continues to surprise me. Through my coursework, excursions, and evenings spent talking with my host family or mes comarades des classe around a glass of wine (ros\u00e9, usually), I\u2019m always learning something new.<\/p>\n

CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) offers two courses in Toulouse for the summer months \u2013 Business & Culture (BC) and Language & Culture (LC). I am in the LC class with nine other students learning about French national identity, history, education, and many other facets of French culture. Through these classes, we connect what we know (i.e. American culture, identity, politics, history, etc.) with the content being taught in class and I realize every day that humans are more alike than we are different. This goes for the positive and the negative, and currently both nations \u2013 France and the US \u2013 are tackling similar wicked problems, from immigration to women\u2019s equality to LGBT+ accep\"\"tance in society. Like I said, more similar than it seems, even from across the sea.<\/p>\n

Aside from the class, our program offers an overnight excursion and several cultural activities in Toulouse and elsewhere. Our whole group, BC + LC, went to Ari\u00e8ge for an overnight trip, where we dined at a small, family run foie gras farm, walked llamas in a mountain village, spent the night right outside the Pyrenees, toured a pre-historic cave (with caveman drawings not unlike those seen in the Bachelor), and visited a castle. It was a jam packed schedule but completely worthwhile, filled with experiences and memories I know I\u2019ll cherish for the rest of my life. In Toulouse, we cooked a French meal as a group with a professional chef, went to Le Capitole for F\u00eate de la Musique, and listened to an opera recital. This is all within the first two weeks!<\/p>\n

The times that I\u2019ve enjoyed the most are the impromptu moments, though, with my classmates and host family. Some are here for all three summer sessions, some are just here for one (like me), and others are here in Toulouse for the month and continuing on for a separate course in another CIEE site. Each day we\u2019ve talked about life back home, personal experiences, religion, family, where we\u2019ve traveled, and topics we\u2019re passionate about \u2013 such as philosophy, women\u2019s voices on campuses, linguistics, and so much more. As for my host family, I can\u2019t thank them enough for how wonderful my stay has been. In a world filled with prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, I\u2019m thankful to have met such amazing people opposite of those traits through this program. Merci beaucoup Toulouse, et \u00e0 bient\u00f4t Wabash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Frey ’19 Rudolph Scholarship – Mark Twain wrote in The Innocents Abroad, \u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-summer-internships","category-cibe"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Llamas-of-Midi-Pyrenees-1024x768.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}