Paris

Jan 7, 2012

Guest post from: Constance Rodgers

Before college, the extent of my international knowledge was that Taco Bell was real Mexican food and that Olive Garden was real Italian food. Oh how wrong I was. While attending undergraduate school, I became very close friends with a foreign exchange student from France. As our time together drew towards a close, I found myself lost in conversations about his childhood and his home. With the job market being as dismal as it was when I graduated in May, I decided to go on an adventure and enroll in graduate school in Paris. After getting over the culture shock that the crescent rolls that my mom made out of the can back home does not qualify as French cuisine, it was time to get settled in. With a trip to the school library and an internet search for Wildblue Satellite Internetin Paris, I found a provider that could give me the connection to home that I so desperately needed, and it comes in handy for finding the nearest McDonald’s for when I want a taste of home.