Hey everyone,
This has to be super fast because I have to go to the train station to pick up Hannah (hurray), who will be staying for a couple of days. I just wanted to let everyone know that after some problems with my first internship and lots of discussions with my program, I've switched internships and am very very happy about it! My new internship is at the Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World, which is a research center within the network of the national School for High Studies of Social Sciences. I'm going to be translating the Institute's information packet as well as parts of their websites. I started doing that on Friday, and wow! translation is so hard. But I'm very happy to have a job to do (at my last internship I didn't have any work, I just followed people around). And I'm going to get to talk to and read the articles and books of the most preeminent scholars of Islam working in France. The Institute welcomes scholars from all over the world to study in Paris, and so I am really lucky because that means that I have access to all sorts of opinions and research. I do have to start my memoire (30 page) paper all over again, but I think that it is well worth it. I know that I still have to post the pictures from Eleni and Miles' visits as well as the ones I took when I went to Montpellier (in the south of France) to visit Abbie. I will try to get on that in the near future, but at the moment I feel so busy that my head might explode. Good thing Hannah is coming, because that forces me to take a break, at least for today, on Sunday.
Well, I'm off. It's the first Sunday of the month which means all the big museums in Paris are free. What a perfect day for Hannah to arrive. Love to you all, and I promise to write again soon,
Liza