PARIS Paris Paris PARIS

I'm really excited.

Northwestern's School of Communication hosts a spring break trip each year at a "journalism convention" type thing, which includes:

• Visiting French TV channels and newspapers
  
• Talks on stuff like marketing, journalism, cultural differences, celebrity journalism and photojournalism
• A cabaret dinner?
• As well as lots of free time to go out.

I'm going with my friend and editor, Lisa, over spring break this year. Our hotel, Hotel Malar, looks awesome and is two blocks from the Eiffel Tower. We'll have time to do whatever we want in the city, and it looks like a few other kids from NBN will be going.

Okay, so the convention itself looks like it may be slightly boring (minus the boat tour of the Seine, which looks awesome), but I've never been out of the country (except for Mexico, which definitely doesn't count).