A guitar hanging on the wall

Since 2015, I have visited la Ville Lumière three times. I was lucky enough to have my first experience with French culture in a high school classroom. Two years into my learning experience, I partook in a school trip to Paris, Maseille, and Avignon to speak it with natives for the first time. By the fourth year I spoke it well enough to receive a five on my AP high school French exam after skipping an intermediate level class my junior year. In my second year of college, I visited Paris again for a month to rediscover the city I had missed so much, instilling in me the motivation to take a French history and etymology course at Brown University in September of 2017. Come the end of 2018, I received an acceptance letter from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris to study in the spring of the following year. There I studied for four months , making friends in the center of Paris and exploring a culture from the inside out. In the midst of my visit, I had the chance to meet Master Kim Jung Gi at the Galerie Daniel Maghen.