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Emily Snelling
Marketing and Events Coordinator
Summary Sentence: Annual French event hosted by School of Modern Languages
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French Day 2019We’re kicking off the 2019 French Day with a brunch, the French way!
Come and meet our faculty as well as other French and Francophile students: majors, minors, ALIS, GEML, M.S. and members of the French Club, while enjoying coffee and light pastries.
Featuring Georgia Tech Lorraine, our LBAT Paris-Nice and our LBAT Senegal. Learn how to get to complete fluency and achieve a French minor in the most efficient way: abroad!
Swing by and meet students who have done our LBATs, learn all about our courses and the details of the programs. Hear about the host families, the daily outings around Paris, Nice, Metz and Dakar, to visit local startups and businesses, scout filming locations and lend a hand to urban farming. Ask about our financial incentives, the Serve-Learn-Sustain program and the International Plan!
Des Livres & Délices, a French concept store located in Raleigh, NC, will join us with books and treats for us all! - https://deslivresetdelicesus.com/
Want to meet friends? Hone your casual conversation skills while snacking on heart-shaped chocolates? The French Club speed-dating event is for you! No actual dating involved, but a series of encounters with other eager conversationalists like you, in a friendly atmosphere.
It’s showtime! This event will showcase our students’ research, and show you the great array of cultural, historical, scientific, artistic and linguistic subjects you can specialize in within our programs! Approach a scholar, ask about their project and they will present their research to you as a personalized, 5-minute elevator pitch. A great way to discover the trends in culture and research, and to learn a little bit about a whole range of subjects!
If you are interested in participating, please click this link https://forms.gle/yfnbqVoAZMaGQpz99
We’re bringing the pans, you’re doing the work! This crêpe party will allow you to learn to make and flip your own crêpe, before the well-deserved reward of eating it. A culinary workshop of sorts, so bring your talent and your appetite!
The closing of this year’s French Day will be at the the Clary Theatre, Bill Moore Student Success Center. There, you will get to meet consulates from France, Switzerland, Québec and Belgium, as well as Georgia Tech members of Faculty for International Affairs, and ask them questions about their work in diplomacy and the job prospects in their field.
Last year’s event was a success and we have moved it to a bigger venue this year.
Every hour, we will raffle off gifts, every event attended is a ticket, the more events you attend, the greater chances to get to go home with a prize!
Professional photographer with props!
Like last year, you will be invited to build a collaborative art piece, one pixel at a time. Last year’s contributors loved their experience working on it as both a meditative and artistic endeavor. Participating in this year’s might be just what you need to forget about school for a few minutes.
