UC San Diego Global Seminars

The first week in Aix has been incredible and I've already learned so much about the city! The week started off pretty fast as we had an orientation and a brief tour of the buildings on the first day. On Tuesday, we learned more about the city and how Roman history had a great influence on its architecture. We also got an amazing market tour afterwards! I learned that the city has 3 weekly market days which are: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. The markets are huge and are spread throughout the city with each market day either being for food & flowers, art, or clothing.  (One of the gorgeous flower stands in the middle of the city) Towards the end of the week, we went on an excursion to visit the oldest theater in the world; The Eden Theatre in La Ciotat. Here, we got to learn about the history of French Cinema and some of its biggest influences. It was also really cool to hear about the theater in general as it's fully ran by volunteers from la Ciotat! We ended off this ex...