The course load was pretty much the same,
except for one course where the prof asked
us to do 10 book reviews.
So we were meant to read 10 books in French
and summarize all of them.
They were all in French, but I was in French
immersion before so I had studied Geography
and History and Math all in French as a child,
so it wasn't a big deal to take other courses
in French History again and Political Science.
There were other students whose French wasn't
as strong, and they had the possibility of
taking courses in English but I took French
courses.
In terms of food, the food is very good.
I mean, France is known for its cuisine and
I found that the culture in Paris is quite
different than what I was used to because
I grew up in a suburb of Toronto so I wasn't
used to living in a big city.
That was a very big experience for me -- living
in a city with 8 million people.
So just being around all this hustle and bustle
all the time took some getting used to.
I worked for a children's radio station in
Berlin called Radio Yo.
And they are called the World's Children Radio
Network, so they're not really a radio station
as such, but they do produce their own content
which they send to other radio stations, and
they try to bridge radio stations around the
world so they can lobby together to make children's
radio accessible from all over the world.
So they have links with over 100 countries
in Africa, Asia, South Africa, Asia, Europe,
the Middle East, etc.
I worked there for four months for my final
work term and I did a lot of different stuff
there.
Just meeting people from different backgrounds
was a great experience, and also the different
tasks that I did such as translation, editing,
and I even produced some of my own radio shows.
So that really widened my skill set.
