An American Student in a Parisian Summer: Part I

J. B. MacMatheson

Image courtesy of yours truly, taken on this excursion.

I can’t say that I was at the very bounds of my enthusiasm when I landed in Paris for the summer exchange program in May of 2015. I certainly didn’t expect it to turn an educational excursion into a life-altering adventure at the ripe old age of twenty-one. Seven other VMI cadets, two professors, and myself had touched down at Charles de Gaulle Airport…