{"id":85,"date":"2025-05-28T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/?p=85"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:56:23","slug":"miscellaneous-photos-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Photos of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today marks a week in Lille, so I figured I’d share a few photos that didn’t really fit anywhere else, but that I wanted to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the university library-I enjoy sitting here to do work because it’s got a lot of windows and natural light!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prefecture de Lille (government offices)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Statue du General Faidherbe\nI had to do a little research on who he even was, but he was a military leader during French colonialism in Africa and is controversial at best :\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the grocery store, each food item has a label like this on the front that rates how nutritious something is-it’s a really easy way to make decisions on products\/between different products without having to look through the complicated nutrition labels!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is the building most of the summer classes are in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finally stopped raining to be able to have a picnic lunch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picnic view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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French pastries are next level \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f luckily I walk a lot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Overall thoughts-I really like Lille, it’s a great city with a lot to do. Everyone is very friendly and the program staff and university staff I’ve connected with have all been wonderful. They really love Juniata and want to see our exchange continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night, I was feeling pretty lonely and we had a group dinner that I was dreading because the students don’t really want to chat with me (I’m old enough looking that they’re suspicious of me), but I haven’t felt very connected to the other visiting staff and professors. I’m so glad I went though because I got connected to a group chat for all the summer faculty\/staff and we had a great time chatting (and they all had the same complaint-I don’t know anyone to hang out with!). So, hopefully that’s a step in the right direction! Tomorrow is a long day in Brussels, but I hope to post some pictures on Friday or Saturday. I have some plans to explore Lille more this weekend, since the weather looks like it’s going to be very sunny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks a week in Lille, so I figured I’d share a few photos that didn’t really fit anywhere else, but that I wanted to share. Overall thoughts-I really like Lille, it’s a great city with a lot to do. Everyone is very friendly and the program staff and university staff I’ve connected with have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}