Bonjour, Paris — A CUA Journal
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| Excited CUA students, faculty and staff gather before touring Chartres Cathedral. |
How much of an exotic
culture can one soak up in a single whirlwind week? A group of energetic
CUA honors students found out this semester. Thirty-nine freshmen began
a week in Paris on March 1, accompanied by CUA faculty mentors Nora Heimann,
Peter Shoemaker and Julian Nelson and CUA staff members Dianah McGown,
Barbara Nickens and John Nissen. Catholic University's sponsorship of
the trip "comes from our deeply held belief that each of us is a
world citizen, and that the best way to know another culture is to immerse
oneself in it," writes Ingrid Merkel, director of the University
Honors Program. Click the following links to read the affecting firsthand
impression of five students who experienced Paris, most of them for the
first time.
Three
faculty sponsors write on student transformation in Paris
Sara Sepanski on the taste of Paris
Megan Gates on a touch in the Paris Métro
Meg Reichelt on Joan of Arc and shadows
of a hunchback in Notre Dame
Alison La Rosa on being lost in the Cobblestone
Woods
Kathryn Bergeron on the French penchant for silent connection