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I spent my fall semester studying Aix-en-Provence, France, a Chattanooga-sized\u00a0Provencal city just a thirty minute bus ride from Marseille, the second-biggest city in France. I\u00a0chose the program because of largely its promise of full language immersion: in addition to\u00a0classes all taught in French, I would be living with a French family in an exclusively\u00a0francophone environment. My choice of location within France, however, was primarily\u00a0influenced by my choice of an undergraduate thesis, which looks at the relationship between the\u00a0Algerian colonial project and the French conceptualization of national citizenship. Marseille\u00a0itself is approximately twenty-five percent Muslim, many of them immigrants or descendants of\u00a0immigrants from North Africa, many with Algerian origins. In addition to the sheer size of the\u00a0relevant population, the Aix-Marseille region is also host to several leading scholars on the issue
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So close to Marseille, I spent roughly half of my weekends in the city, trying falafel and\u00a0couscous restaurants, going through the Arab markets and shops, making friends with locals, and\u00a0visiting some of the major historical landmarks in the region. My program included two\u00a0excursions, one to the Gorge du Verdun, an enormous gorge with a beach by bright blue water\u00a0than then turns into a river weaving along the gorge, and to a small town that was host to a\u00a0beautiful church and the grave of the famed author Albert Camus. The opportunity to experience\u00a0both the major cities and the smaller, more rural areas of Provence, both rich with cultural\u00a0history, contributed to both my experience and my understanding of the region as dynamic and\u00a0multi-faceted. Apart from a weekend in Lisbon and a weekend in Paris for a music festival, I\u00a0primarily stayed in the Provencal region, wandering the streets of Aix and Marseille.<\/p>\n

The most meaningful part of my experience in France, however, was the family I found\u00a0myself a part of, many of them straddling the borders of nationality and citizenship in which I\u00a0was so interested. This family was different from my host family, with whom I had a positive but\u00a0relatively neutral association. My family there was made up of faculty and and their families,\u00a0who invited me into their homes and families throughout my stay in Aix. They were\u00a0French-Algerian, French-Moroccan, and Arab-Israeli. These connections challenged and\u00a0broadened by notions of belonging and identity, helped with my thesis immensely, and, more\u00a0personally, made Aix into a real home for me.<\/p>\n

Mae Stuart is working towards a Bachelor\u2019s degree in both Political Science and Humanities with a minor in French. She spent a semester studying abroad in Aix-en-provence, France through CISabroad<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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I spent my fall semester studying Aix-en-Provence, France, a Chattanooga-sized\u00a0Provencal city just a thirty minute bus ride from Marseille, the second-biggest city in France. I\u00a0chose the program because of largely its promise of full language immersion: in addition to\u00a0classes all taught in French, I would be living with a French family in an exclusively\u00a0francophone environment.… <\/p>\n

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