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Title: I attended American Intercontinental University London in Paris, France from July 2006 to August 200


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Fashion in the Summer American Intercontinental
University- Summer B 2006 Hillary Dixon
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  • I had the time of life living abroad. I made
    some amazing friends that I still keep in contact
    with. We have actually made plans to all meet up
    again soon. We plan on having reunions regularly
    so that we can stay up with each other and what
    we are doing in the fashion industry. I learned
    so much about trends and more about what I want
    to do as a career. I am going to take more
    design classes and now have a broader scope of
    skills that I can bring to which ever career path
    I choose.
  • The housing was great. We were really fortunate
    to live about five minutes away from the ACCENT
    center where we took our classes. Unless you
    requested a certain person as a roommate, you
    lived by yourself. Which in the long run I think
    was better because you spend you mostly spend
    your time with people and its nice to just have
    time to be by yourself. But when you first
    arrive and are new to the environment, its nice
    to have someone around to discuss things with so
    that you dont feel so homesick.
  • The courses that I took were Fashion Styling and
    Trend Forecasting. For Trend Forecasting we made
    two different mood boards based on trends that we
    predicted would be popular. My instructor taught
    us to look retrospectively to what was popular a
    long time ago and bring it back with new and
    innovative embellishments. The first mood board
    that I did was a Napoleonic inspired board and
    then we were to design a collection of eight
    pieces to go along with the mood. The second
    board was a nautical theme with the British flag
    as the inspiration. I really enjoyed this class.
    For the second class, Fashion Styling, we had to
    take three different photo shoots and turn them
    into a miniature magazine. It was interesting to
    be a stylist and pick out what to wear and where
    to have the shoots.
  • As side excursions we went to London for one
    weekend, the Loire Valley, Palais de Royal, The
    Louvre, Versailles, Giverny (where Monet lived),
    and just toured around Paris going to districts
    such as Monmartre, the Latin Quarter and the
    Bastille district where we lived. We went to a
    ballet at Opera Bastille, mass at Notre Dame, the
    worlds biggest flea market, a choir concert at
    Saint Chapelle, celebrated Bastille day with the
    locals, watched the ending of the Tour de France,
    shopped along the Champs dElyesee and of course
    went up inside the Eiffel Tour.

Introduction
I attended American Intercontinental University
London in Paris, France from July 2006 to August
2006. I went abroad for many reasons. One being
that I needed to go out on my own and learn more
about myself and all that I could accomplish
being on my own, I also went because I havent
really gotten that much fashion classes here at U
of I and I also went because I wanted to broaden
my knowledge about the fashion industry and where
is a better place to do it than in the fashion
capital of the world!
Objectives
  • My expectations going into this was to grow both
    mentally and also through as much knowledge as I
    could absorb while being aboard. Whether it be
    about another countrys language, culture,
    through the classes that I was enrolled in or
    about anything else.
  • What did you hope to learn and experience
  • .What I hoped to learn was more about myself as
    a person, what type of person I am or hope to
    be
  • ..What type of profession I want to go into in
    the fashion industry
  • . Meet many influential people in the industry
    that could maybe some day hire me to work for
    them
  • .Make contacts and network through friendships
    that I form while abroad

Materials and Methods
Being a senior last year, I was in a conversation
with my advisor Rachel about graduation and what
else I had left to do and we realized that I only
had about 16 hours to graduate at the end of last
semester and that I only needed hours, I had all
of my required classes finished. She suggested
that I do it abroad. I had always wanted to go
abroad, but just never thought that it was in the
cards for me. Fortunately it was! The preparation
process was pretty painless. I contacted their
office and spoke a couple of people, there was a
mini-interview session over the phone and all I
had to do was fill out and application. A couple
of month later I received a call that I had been
accepted and was going to Paris! Fortunately for
me my parents had been saving their frequent
flyers miles for many years and so I was able to
use those to get there and also to come home, so
that it very easy for me.
Discussion / Conclusion
I completely recommend both this program and
study abroad to anyone who interested in it. It
will be by far be one of the best investments
that you can make in your future.
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