Category Archives: UGA Students

May 09 2010
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Juan-Les-Pins, Music, UGA Students

I’m Loving This

One of the students, Josh Olds, just introduced this to me.
Amazing / Hilarious. Diggy (aka- Rev Run’s middle son) has dropped a mixtape. Josh was playing it for me and it is actually really good – way better than his older brother, Jojo. You HAVE to listen (especially you, Dan).
Love him. Love his family. Miss their show.
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May 08 2010
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Juan-Les-Pins, Travel, UGA Students, University of Georgia

The Students Are Coming! The Students Are Coming!

The first batch of students arrived this morning bright-eyed and enthusiastic despite being very sleep-deprived. Eleven boys and girls pulled up in three taxis from Nice airport around 11am this morning and they’ve been going strong all day.

I introduced them all to the “Pan & Cake” crepes across the street and then they went to explore Cannes a little on foot. They are trying their hardest to stay awake until 9pm so they can start adapting to the French sleep schedule. To stall their bedtime they’ve been blogging and tweeting like crazy on their laptops all afternoon — I’ll post some of their blog links on here in the coming days.
Still waiting around here in the lobby (have been for the past 5.5 hours) for a couple more students to get in today…but I’m hearing that lots of people are being rerouted due to the Icelandic volcano erupting again last night. There’s buzz that Nice airport may even be closed tomorrow, so students’ (and professors’) – and celebs’ – travel getting here is going to become more and more interesting over the next 24 hours. And by interesting I mean a giant pain in the ass. Glad over half the students made it here today.
Oh, P.S. – one of the students who got here this evening came over on British Airways and got a picture of all the ash coming out of the volcano as they passed Iceland. It’s an amazing picture. She’s considering sending it to CNN’s iReporter in the name of UGA Cannes Film Fest- you know, to get our name out there… 🙂 I’ll send a link to it later if she posts it.
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Jun 07 2009
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Juan-Les-Pins, UGA Students, Visitors

Last day in Juan

I already did one post on my last day in Juan-Les-Pins when I was checking all of the students out of the residence. Beginning with check-outs at 4:30am that morning, I was finally done with the last of them around mid-day. Instead of going up to bed to sleep, Dan and I made the most of our last day in the south and paid 15euro a piece to rent padded beach chairs in the sand. It was unnaturally windy this day so the waves were choppier than I’ve ever seen them on the Med. It was warm in the sun, though, and we soaked up every last ounce of our last day before Paris.

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Jun 06 2009
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Reflections, UGA Students, University of Georgia

Student Check-Out Day

Today is the official end to the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Study Abroad Program at UGA.  It is 8:26AM here in France and I have been checking students out since 4:30AM this morning.  All but three people have checked out of the residence and made their way to both the Nice airport for long plane rides home and to the train station for many post-program travels.

I am emotionless, but I think that’s only because I’m too tired to “feel” right now.  I’m sure this all will hit me (the students being gone, the fact that I have to leave my life at the beach) later on.  If it doesn’t hit me later today then I’m sure it will tomorrow as I’m on an Air France flight for a 3-day getaway in Paris.  And if it doesn’t hit me then then it’ll for sure hit me come Thursday morning when I’m back in the offices of Fletcher Martin a mere 12-hours after I’ve touched down stateside.  My mind cannot even begin to fathom what that morning will feel like.
For now, I want to soak up the rest of my time in this beautiful, quaint, dreamlike place.  I hate to leave it, but I can’t WAIT to come back!
I’m adding more pictures to my last post (which can be found below this one) as I wait for the last of the students to turn in their keys.  After those final goodbyes you can find me passed out from exhaustion on the beaches of JLP for one last day in the Mediterranean sun.  Okay, I think it’s starting to hit me…  I better go focus now so I can ditch this laptop and get out to enjoy this lovely, sunny, French life to which I’ve grown so accustomed.
A bientot!
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Jun 05 2009
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Juan-Les-Pins, Shoutout, UGA Students, Visitors

June 3. Danny’s Birthday!

For Dan’s birthday we went out to eat at a restaurant on the beach (literally ON the beach…our table/feet were in the sand) called Le Jetee. I had salmon and Dan had steak. Some highlights: listening to the calm waves of the Mediterranean hit the beach as we ate, watching the sunset from the dinner table, the amazing waitstaff and how nice they were to us — our waiter even surprised us with two complimentary birthday shots at the end of dessert.


After dinner the plan was to head back to the residence and have a glass of wine in my room before heading out on the town for a rare night out. All week Dan had encouraged me to talk up his birthday with the students to see if anyone wanted to go out and celebrate….but I just kept telling him how they all had papers due the following day and I doubted many people would be able to make it out.

Arriving back to my room I turned the key to the door and Dan walked in to flick on the lights. Right on cue he was met with a huge “SURPRISE!” from a roomful of students dressed in all white. Yes, folks. I am the first person in Dan’s 32-year history to have ever successfully thrown him a surprise party — and a surprise WHITE party, at that (I’m patting myself on the back as I type).
The white party under black lights. We took the party out to Juan-Les-Pins super-Euro, Club M. There was dancing aplenty as we celebrated Danny’s birthday in style.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAN!!!
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