Written by Laura Osborne ’17, recounting March 5, 2015:

Today, once arriving at St. Dominique’s now familiar campus with our corres, we departed to the metro to travel to Le Musee D’Orsay. It was a beautiful, sunny day! After multiple metro stops we emerged at Tuileries Gardens where we could spot Le Louvre, Cleopatra’s Obelisk, and L’Arc de Triomphe on the axis of Paris. We crossed over one of the many love lock-decorated bridges across the Seine to Le Musee D’Orsay. Not only was the architecture of the building breathtaking, but the art inside is only something we have seen in pictures. Our fantastic tour guide split her helpful information between English and French to accommodate us. Seeing the masterpieces up close and in person was truly inspirational and beautiful. The paintings we viewed were by famous impressionist and neo-impressionist artists –  Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Monet, and many others.

After our tour, we headed back to St. Do for our dejeuner at their cantine. Following our quick meal, we took the metro again towards Le Louvre and began a tour of the city on a double decker bus; we all sat on the open top and took pictures of Le Louvre, Notre Dame, Le Grand and Petit Palais, the Seine, La Tour Eiffel, Les Champs-Élysées, and so much more – all explained by the audio provided on the bus. Some of us even spotted Kim Kardashian and Kylie and Kendall Jenner walking the streets as a part of Paris Fashion Week! After our chance at a new perspective of the city, we traveled back to the school and parted ways with our corres for the evening.