Aero: Kelly Bailey – Costa Rica 2016 – City Life

… The cities of Costa Rica and Nicaragua were amazing and beautiful. Every house was a different bright color, and at the center of each village was a giant church or maybe two. This churches seemed to be always filled with pious people. In the church in Grecia we watched a woman on her knees […]

Aero: Kimberly Gage – France 2015 – City Life

Aero: Kimberly Gage – France 2015 – City Life … … The first thing that comes to mind is the metro system! The metro system in Paris has got to be one of the best forms of transportation I have ever been on! The metros were clean, easy to use and punctual. I have never been […]

Aero: Kimberly Gage – France 2015 – Family Life

Aero: Kimberly Gage – France 2015 – Family Life … … Before arriving in France, I had the opportunity to contact my host student, Thibault. He told me that his English was not the greatest and likewise I told him my French was the same. When we met at the station Friday evening, we were finally […]

Aero: Kimberly Gage – France 2015 – Life at School

Aero: Kimberly Gage – France 2015 – Life at School … … I felt like I was transported back to high school! The only difference between my own high school and the lycée was the language and the people. The class sizes were about the same ratio as my classes in high school. The sizes were […]

Aero: Kelsey Castro – France 2015 – City Life

Aero: Kelsey Castro – France 2015 – City Life … … I can still vividly remember the sights and smells I encountered while we were in Paris. If I close my eyes, it isn’t difficult for me to transport myself back to one of the bustling avenues of the city, or one of the quaint […]

Aero: Kelsey Castro – France 2015 – Family Life

Aero: Kelsey Castro – France 2015 – Family Life … … After spending a week in Paris, I was ready for the pace to slow down and to meet my host family. Eline and I had talked briefly over Facebook before leaving the United States, but I was still very nervous about living with people I […]

Aero: Kelsey Castro – France 2015 – Life at School

Aero: Kelsey Castro – France 2015 – Life at School … … I was both nervous and excited to experience going to school with my host student, Eline. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect on the first day. My host mother, Anne, drove Eline, her younger sister Enora, and myself down the road to the […]

Aero: Jason Palmer – France 2015 – City Life

Aero: Jason Palmer – France 2015 – City Life … … France is much different than the United States.  In Paris in particular, most of the residents either rode bicycles or drove mopeds.  This was very common.  The metro, their version of the subway was widely used to maneuver throughout the city.  This is much the same […]

Aero: Jason Palmer – France 2015 – Family Life

Aero: Jason Palmer – France 2015 – Family Life … … I may have had a different experience that the rest of the class.  Due to the age difference of myself and the rest of the students in our class, I was placed with a professor who lived in Rennes, and commuted by train to Vitre […]

Aero: Christine Elizabeth – France 2015 – Family Life

Aero: Christine Elizabeth – France 2015 – Family Life … … When I had found out that we were going to be spending one week living with a host family, instead of my initial thought of us staying in a hotel for 2 weeks I got a bit nervous. I mean dealing with one’s own […]