What a rainy April! It has been raining every day for almost a week now. While it’s a sign that Spring is here (!), I am starting to not like this rain. Marathon Monday was this past Monday. This is the day when the Boston Marathon is held. Part of the marathon runs past Wellesley so tons of Wellesley students get…
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sound of music
As I’ve mentioned before, I do some volunteering on Friday afternoons with Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment program which is a mentoring program for refugee youth in Dorchester. Two weeks ago, I wasn’t able to go to program while they were on a trip the Museum of Science. On that trip, they apparently made a song about me (so cute!). When…
Paris (again!)
The one advice I would tell students at Wellesley and the incoming class of 2022 (!!!!welcome!!!), is to take the classes that you like and are most interested in. That’s what happened when I chose to take a class called Black Paris. Black Paris is class in the French department that focuses on postcolonial theory and particularly relating to Africans…
Spring Break 2.0
It’s Spring Break! While I am on this break, I know that many of you are receiving your letters from Wellesley. Congratulations to our new Purple class of 2022!!! I hope you are excited about your future! I remember getting my letter and being very excited, now it’s two years later and I am getting ready to go to Paris! I hope…
Learning
This week has been a great week. I have been able to witness so many important conversations between people I admire and with my peers. First, I went to an amazing art gallery in Boston to see an exhibit called “A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks. I am not an Art major or have taken any art classes but I love art. I was…
Under The Sea!
This past week was spent with my volunteer group at the Aquarium. It’s been a long time since I have been to an aquarium and visiting the New England Aquarium made me feel like a kid again. I traveled from Wellesley to the Aquarium in Boston to meet my volunteer group. We had fewer kids with us on this trip…
Classes for my Spring semester
I realized I haven’t told you about the classes I am taking this semester! Well here is a quick rundown. I am taking a French class called Black Paris: ‘Postcolonializing ‘ the Seine. It explores the life of Black immigrants to Paris through readings and watching films. We discuss writers like Franz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It has been a…
Africa Week!
This week was Africa Week! It’s a part of Wellesley’s African Students Association (WASA) Black History Month celebrations. It seeks to bring awareness to African’s culture, politics, and students at Wellesley’s campus. On Monday, I attended an Art Exhibit by a Nigerian photographer named Stephanie Nnamani. She came to show us her project entitled GLASS. They are a series of…
Spring 2018
I am officially back and so is the snow! I am ready to take on the second semester of my second year. There seems to be a lot going on at the same time as I try to readjust, classes, deciding to study abroad, and summer internships. I am also starting to realize that I am about to hit the…
Wintersession in Paris
Classes start next week but I wanted to give you an update on what I have been doing since I last wrote on the blog. For the first two weeks of January, I was in Paris as part of the French department’s Wintersession class on Parisien film culture. The class is called Paris, CinéCity and allowed us to discuss Parisien film culture…