It’s hard to practice your french! Even being quite immersed in the culture and people, it is challenging to attempt a conversation in french. Often spotted by my accent, those I encounter in shops and restaurants will quickly switch to whatever English they know to help me understand what they’re asking. While this is incredibly [...]
Tag: #dance
Something New Every Day
01/19/18 It’s been two weeks in France so far, and already I have learned so much! My first week was spent attending orientations, finding all the beautiful locations for my classes, and figuring out how to ask for coffee in french. We had a lovely grounding yoga class on Friday, followed by a breathtaking performance [...]
Out of My Comfort Zone And Into Paris!
Bonjour! My name is Zoe and I am a junior at USF. I am a dance major, nutrition minor, and honors student. I am writing this blog because I received the Genshaft/Greenbaum Passport Scholarship Endowment, which is really such an honor. In a few days I will be traveling to Paris for the Dance in [...]
Things Have Changed
It's been five days since I've returned from the USF Dance in Paris Program, and I've continually put off writing this last blog post. Finishing my personal series of updates not only means finding a way to summarize my experiences in coherent sentences and paragraphs, but it also means the official end of the program. [...]
Hitting All of the Notes
I believe great music is music that consists of a great deal of variety, taking all of the basic elements of music and blending them in unexpected ways to create beauty out of sound. One of the reasons I love the song, "Bohemian Raphsody," by Queen, is because I can feel it taking the listener [...]
