Classes and Street Art

My classes started last week Wednesday (the 15th of September) and so far it's going really well. I'm going through the program with a wonderful wonderful group of people, and the classes seem like they are going to go well.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week we had a class for our integration period called Paris Rhetoric. On both days we went out and about around Paris and saw a number of different things - the Rodin Museum, the Louvre, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Sorbonne, the Pantheon, etc.

My camera, unfortunately, died right away on the second day, but I did manage to capture a bit of the first day. The first half of the day we spent exploring the 20th arrondissement and learning about street art and the different artists.

And this one we perhaps enjoyed a bit TOO much....

It was actually quite interesting learning about street art in Paris and how the people feel about it and how the community becomes attached to it. There are well known artists that people ask to paint on their businesses, and it is respectable art form here. On that note, there is a definite difference that people make here between street art and graffiti or tagging. It was an interesting trip! :)