Four days in Paris

At 11pm, on Friday 29th June, 30 students and 6 staff left Oxford for Paris, arriving at 9am the next day. What followed was an action-packed 4 day stay, during which we visited the Musee Rodin, the Pompidou Centre and the Musee d'Orsay. We climbed the Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a boat trip on the Seine, watched a mini opera at Bercy, shopped in the Champs Elysees, visited Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur and lots more besides.

We negotiated the Metro and joined in with street entertainment on the Pont Saint Louis (in fact the students took over the entertainment, leading the dancing which passers-by joined in with).

On the final evening there were three workshops. Emmanuelle invited two French friends to speak to the French group;  Helen led an art group who recorded impressions of Paris, and Fizza led a drama workshop which summarised the main events of the visit in three minutes. The whole experience was a mixture of culture and fun and I think it's fair to say that every single person thoroughly enjoyed it.  Thanks especially to Emmanuelle (French department) and Fizza (Head of Drama) for masterminding a brilliant, action-packed trip.