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So we're now nearing the end of my 3rd week of uni. It's crazy how fast it seems to be going, and how busy things have got very quickly. I wanted to update you on some of my latest news, on some of my lessons, and my weekend plans. Pompoms Sciences Po I had no idea that cheer existed in Paris or that Sciences Po would have a cheer team and I didn't know what other sport I would be able to do but I wanted to be able to meet people and stay fit, so imagine my excitement on discovering that there is a cheer team! I immediately sent an over-enthusiastic email with an embarrassing selfie of me from a competition last year and then did the tryouts on Friday and I made the team! I'm super excited to carry on with cheer and everyone seems so nice I'm also excited to practise my french. There is a canadian girl on our team who is a proper cheer professional and she coaches teams for Worlds. I can't remember the name of the team she cheers for but this in an example of the kind of standard she coaches/competes at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKJExDfS3_U She is going to teach us how to stunt so hopefully by Christmas I will be at this standard too (lol). Cheer trains twice a week and some Sundays which is a lot more than at Warwick but I think it will be fun. I won't be able to the main competitions which are next term but i'm still excited to be a part of cheer and to get to wear one of these uniforms (not around campus though, this isn't an American teen movie).  Pompoms Sciences Po  l'Ivresse This is the Sciences Po fashion society and another reason for me to get excited. I'm going to be involved in the creative production of promotional material for their events, etc. I also want to make them a killer video and some flyers to hand out in order to get the society some great exposure and get more people interested in what we do. They've got some great ideas for coming up as well, we're hoping to have Alber Elbaz of Lanvin come and do a speech (which would be incredible) and apparently they can get some fashion week seats too which is even more exciting! There should be some good opportunities for networking and speaking to some people about internship opportunities so this is also great news. Classes My lectures are going ok. I'm definitely getting more used to hearing the french and its getting a bit easier to make notes in lectures (if I focus really hard) but I haven't done a lot of speaking yet. We're not put on the spot and asked to give opinions/answers really which is kind of good because that would be scary but at the same time it makes it very easy to sit there listening and letting others speak, especially in a bigger, more intimidating class. I've got my first presentation for Management d'Entreprise on Monday which is with a group and so I think should be fine. It's also a kind of factual presentation on Volkswagen so I'm less nervous about that but on Wednesday I have my first individual exposé for Innovation Numérique and that I am nervous about. Although it's on the idea of "design thinking" and I chose the topic because it was one I did a module in last year and find really interesting. I really want to do a good exposé though and I even got some books out of the library for it today which I have never done at Warwick!! I watched a TED talk , by Tim Brown who is founder of IDEO, the design and innovation consulting agency. about the importance of design and the history of where this notion of design thinking came from which relates to my exposé. It's interesting how when we think of design we automatically think about aesthetics, style, but there is so much more to it and its more about creatively and innovatively responding to needs/pains of customers. He also wrote one of the books that I have got out of the library. Anyway, this week I had to write another summary for my Espace Mondiale conférence and again it wasn't selected to be marked (Grrrr!). I seem to be pretty busy with work on the whole though. There is this article to read every week, group presentations, exposés, revue de presses, on-going business project work (although we have not got very far beyond just ideas in both my modules that I have do this for). I have something due in or some presentation to do in all the weeks coming up. I also have Dad coming next weekend and then Tom coming the weekend after so i'm trying to get as much done in these weeks so that I can have the weekends free to explore Paris. Weekend plans This weekend I'm heading to a Paris startup jobs fair which should be interesting and there are some great companies there and some really interesting ones who I'm looking forward to talking to about internship opportunities. This was one of the reasons for moving my blog here to my website. I wanted potential employers or contacts to be able to view my blog, CV, creative work, info about me, all in the same place. I really want to get some little business cards printed with a QR code to my website (e.g. below right) but I don't have time to get this done before Saturday.
Also this weekend is "les journées des patrimoines" which means that lots of buildings are open for free which are either normally paid for or sometimes not even normally open to the public. I am planning to go to the Fondation Louis Vuitton which is over in the west of Paris and also probably one of the huge buildings like l'Assemblée Nationale or Invalides. So i'm definitely going to make the most of the weekend and see as much as possible.
Oh, and I have my 9 am Sunday running class.
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