Graham C. 2012 Fellow
Graham reports that he “spent the first half of the year working in a restaurant in the valley and tutoring high school students. Then I was off to Senegal to teach English in St. Louis, which also improved my French. From there I continued to head north. I spent a few weeks in Morocco on an architecture tour, visited every art museum in Andalusia and Catalonia I reasonably could in 2 weeks, and settled down in Nice in a home stay to take cooking courses (ostensibly to improve my French). After a little time in France, I visited my family in Berlin, and then spent a month in Knebel, Denmark studying watercolor painting and enjoying the scenery of Jutland. After visiting some friends in Oslo and Copenhagen, I headed back to LA for the remainder of the summer, in preparation for the first year of university.
“Having such a transnational experience on my gap year really helped me relate to my peers at Sciences Po who came from all over the world. Seeing all of these places expanded my sense of international perspective and possibilities. Plus, without the French that I had learned over the course of the year, I would've surely been completely lost while attending university in Normandy.
“My gap year was an incredible opportunity that turned into an incredible experience.” This is the link to my YouTube channel that has videos about my gap year:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS6i-x28RDfWBfvOPdlg59w
“Having such a transnational experience on my gap year really helped me relate to my peers at Sciences Po who came from all over the world. Seeing all of these places expanded my sense of international perspective and possibilities. Plus, without the French that I had learned over the course of the year, I would've surely been completely lost while attending university in Normandy.
“My gap year was an incredible opportunity that turned into an incredible experience.” This is the link to my YouTube channel that has videos about my gap year:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS6i-x28RDfWBfvOPdlg59w