Hello everyone!
Welcome to my blog 2.0! I created a blog for my travels in Scotland, but figured it would be nice to start fresh for my next adventures in the United Kingdom. I thought the title of the blog was pretty witty, too. (For those who aren't knowledgeable about classical music, look up "An American in Paris").
For those of you who happened to stumble across this blog and have no idea who I am, a bit of background. I am about to graduate with my undergraduate degree, and am preparing for my next big adventure - graduate school! Next year I will have more school (yay!) to obtain my master's degree, followed by five more years (yay times five!) of school to get my PhD.
But why the blog?
Well, I have been awarded a Fulbright Study Grant to the United Kingdom! (But what does this mean?!) In a nutshell, Fulbright is a world-wide program intended to promote cross-cultural studies and cooperation. It is a national scholarship, intended for academic and creative study around the world. I applied to a UK-US partnership to the University of Leicester, and about a year after this whole process started found out I was selected as a finalist!
So this blog is dedicated to my year as a Fulbright scholar. I won't be leaving the US until the end of August, so for now I'll be posting infrequently, mostly just about my musings of preparing for living abroad for a year (which will likely revolve around packing, because I happen to have a lot of clothes).
Feel free to follow along!
