"There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were nor how it was changed nor with what difficulties nor with what ease it could be reached. It was worth it and we received a return for whatever we brought to it." Hemingway

14.9.11

Every Wednesday from 9h30 to 12h I attend Urban Social Photography at CEA’s global campus. My professor is originally a New Yorker, spent 13 years in Israel photographing and raising awareness of the social turmoil, and has lived in France since 2001. My high school logic professor, Dr Lee, would be proud of me because every Wednesday from 9h30 to 12h I “sit at the feet of one who knows.”
See her website: http://www.hallypancer.com
Tonight at dinner, Madame Maunoury broached topics such as the chemically saturated state of our food, global pollution, the upcoming presidential election in the States, the withdrawal of compulsory Swedish language from Finnish schools, and the French education system. I hope that this experience among dissimilar minds and habits will expand my intellect and teach me to consider others, to think more globally. Maybe I will begin to care enough to read about what occurs outside the US, to know the world's political leaders, to merely glance at the headlines of other countries' papers rather than satisfy myself with the Dallas funnies on Sunday mornings. How can an ethnocentric mind contribute anything worth receiving to society? We can not all play the idiot. 

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