Early Class

Today I woke up early to get to Kudu for the 8am mandatory class with Dr. Desplaces, I ordered coffee for the caffeine though I was still tired until noon.  Dr. Desplaces gave out syllabuses to the class as we drank our coffee, and we talked about what we expected to be different in Paris than in Charleston.  We then went to the Farmers Market to look around and imagine the similarities and differences of a similar market in France.  I learned that the French bought food, especially bread everyday from markets, but that their markets had more produce than the one in Charleston.  We saw sweetgrass baskets being sold and since sweetgrass baskets are a cultural part of Charleston I wondered if they would have similar items in a french market

Sweet grass Baskets being sold

After walking through the market we went to Beatty Center and I watched people play a card game that I didn't understand, and I don't think most people playing it did either.  It was done to show how not being to talk about how the game was played caused difficulties and that ignorance of the rules caused mistakes that people usually just went with.  Then we were told more of the schedule of the trip and I learned a lot of things about the French culture.  I thought that the Hofstede charts on the cultural differences between nations was very interesting and informative and don't think that writing an essay will be as difficult as I expected beforehand.