Help Kay Spend Her Summer In Normandy & Edinburgh!
My Travel Story
French language and culture are loves of mine. I am studying translation at college. But (as a French woman once said to me) you have to be very good at both French and English to translate. My hope is after API's Summer Language Intensive, my French will be signifanctly improved. This language program (and being in France for a month) will bring me closer to helping bring more stories to more people.
Another love of mine is the theatre. It is through translating theatre and film that I hope to help those with unheard voices get their stories out. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest theatre festival in the world, which means I will be exposed to foreign culture and new ways of making theatre.
With your help I will spend this summer learning the skills I need to become a better world citizen and help others have their voices heard.
Why can't I just do the Fringe on my own and travel in France to learn the language?
Good question. After this summer, I will be staying in France, in Grenoble, to do a semester abroad. The way visas work in the US is that a student studying abroad needs a student visa. These can only be gotten on US soil, at the Boston Embassy for me. There is also a fee for recieving visas. So it makes more sense financially for me to go to France on a student visa for the summer, instead of flying back and forth, which can only be done if I can prove that I am doing an academic program--API's Summer Intensive. Both API and the Fringe Program through UMass offer academic credit, as well. Two classes fit perfectly into my divisional work at Hampshire, so they will be put towards completing my Div II.
Why is a semester abroad so important to my studies?
In reflecting on what my Div III (a year-long capstone academic project) will be, I have realized that I want to listen to and tell the stories of people from multiple cultures and languages. To do that I need two things: a good grasp on my second language, and people from another culture to talk to. And France can provide me with both of those things! Immersion is the best way to learn a language--everybody knows it and it's true. I can gather the stories I will need to do my Div III back in the United States, and after the Fringe Festival, I'll be full of ideas about how to format and execute the piece that I create during my Div III!
Okay, yeah, but why should I give you money?
Yes, gifts of wine are hard to ship across the Atlantic and I'm not sure about the cost of an authentic kilt, but I know that there are still people with a love of snail mail out there--and if that's you, I gotchu. I'm going to be traveling to a lot of different places and I'm always ready to make new penfriends, so if I can win you over with the promise of something in your mailbox, you have my heart and a postcard coming at you. But I get that $5 or $10 dollars can be a big price to pay for a moment of joy. So why else? You will be able to claim partial responsibility for helping form a new global citizen, and in the future, if I suceed at anything, hey, you can say you helped get me there, because you helped put me on the path I'm about to walk down!
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It happened! It's official! The thing that I've been saying I'm doing for months and months I can really do now!
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