Paris // Lyon // Nice // Le-Puy-en-Velay
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Loooooong day, but a good one. We were out for essentially the whole day. The picture above is a selfie taken by the great Gaspard including the 6 of us American students (left to right: Azim, Minhee aka me, Dave, Emily, Sophia, & Ty) and 4 French students (foreground: Gaspard, left to right: Nikolat, Audrey, & Gwen). Apologies for any butchering of French names. The ESEPAC students welcomed us to their school with many pastries this morning. Their school is quite small, but is an amazing space. There are machines and equipment everywhere in the building, as well as computer labs and classrooms. There are plenty of big tables and chairs that serve as a common area for casual conversing or serious project working. There is also an outdoors area where students eat food and such. The space was very unique compared to the rigid and structured lecture halls I am used to. Today was our first day of classes and we spent most of the day learning Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I created some cool things but will post pictures another time. I personally find that the packaging program at my college does not focus much on creative software, which I find useful not only for our careers, but for our lives. I have prior knowledge of Photoshop and have used it plenty of times for non-career related things. I hope to push for more design oriented classes at my school. I have spoken to many of my packaging peers and have found that most people take packaging because of its ability to intertwine science and art. This is what attracted me to it as well, so how come we don't really feed that desire? You know? We shall see. Above is a picture of the French keyboard which I find interesting. You actually need to press Shift for the numbers. How wack. After a long day in the computer lab, my fellow students and I were taken to the nearby city of Le Puy-en-Velay. Like everything I have seen so far in France, the view was absolutely beautiful. Le Puy is actually kind of located on a hill, so houses are either way down in the valley or way up in the mountainsish. We visited a cathedral as well as the infamous statue of the Virgin Mary. To get to the statue, you had to walk on an incline for a while - many stairs and such. It was indeed a trek, but definitely worth it! The views were quite breathtaking. We were also able to climb up and inside the statue (hence the blog title for today). It kind of scared me, as heights aren't my thing, but it was still thrilling. Really spectacular - there are great views in the States, but none like this (so far). With an ascent comes a descent, and we made our way back to the ground level of Le Puy. Together, we all went to a supermarket to buy some lunch for tomorrow as well as cheese and such for a party! The ESEPAC students wanted to have a small party to welcome us today. It was essentially a social gathering of alcohol, cheese, meat, and bread. I honestly don't understand how healthy all of these young people are if they constantly eat this (haha). I already feel much heavier after indulging in all of this... it's just so good. The 6 of us were able to meet more ESEPAC students, converse amongst ourselves, experience yummy French food, and simply enjoy the outdoors. We also shared "American" snacks with the ESEPAC students - popular hits included Hi-Chew, Fruit Roll-ups, Doritos, Cheese Doodles/Cheetos, Milano, and some more. A lot of them described our candy as "plastic" and our chips as "chemical." Honestly, pretty accurate. No surprises there. That about concluded our day! It was jam-packed, but good all around. I am glad that I was able to learn something new today at school.
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