RELEASED: July 22, 2004

DANVILLE, KY—Who says there’s a problem with French-U.S. relations? Rising junior Chelsea Wessel and other Centre students had a great time making new French friends this summer while they studied abroad in Strasbourg, France.

Wessel, a biology major from Evansville, Ind., writes of her cordial encounters with the French in her travel journal. To read it, visit http://www.centre.edu/web/admission/traveljournals/wessel_strasbourg.html.

Wessel was one of 10 Centre students who studied for three weeks in Strasbourg as a part of Centre's new summer study abroad program. She enjoyed learning about the country’s history, hiking in the Vosges Mountains and the dining experiences. She even found what she dubbed the French version of Centre’s Cowan Dining Commons where she enjoyed “fruits that will just melt in your mouth.”

She says her time there helped to defeat negative stereotypes she’d heard about France and was an experience “that will change the rest of my life.”

To see other Centre travel journals, go to http://www.centre.edu/web/admission/traveljournals/.
Seventy-five percent of Centre students take part in the College’s top-10 nationally ranked study-abroad program, which offers travel to England, France, Mexico, Japan and Northern Ireland during the semester, and to Vietnam, Cameroon, Turkey and the Bahamas and other destinations during CentreTerm and now in the summer. For more, see http://web.centre.edu/studyabroad/.

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