Celebrating the experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAfterwards we wandered around some of the shops, me picking up some last-minute souvenirs for family and friends, before heading back across town to our hotel. The next morning and throughout the day was a steady stream of tearful goodbyes as the bulk of us began to leave en masse. I spent the morning and afternoon strolling with classmates up to the hills of Nice and getting some last views of the city and the sea, before heading back to the hotel and saying our own goodbyes. I grabbed a train to Paris, there to stay the night before a morning flight to Miami and some time-zone-adjusting sleep. Though that last part didn\u2019t quite go as planned, as I chatted with a French ski resort owner all the way back and still had jetlag upon arrival.<\/p>\n
Understanding<\/strong><\/p>\nAll in all, the journey we took was not one measured in miles, but of growth within ourselves. We faced different cultures, and came to realize the culture most requiring understanding was at times our own. Trying to separate and explain our personal views from that of a nation or a region, keeping an open mind about how different cultures see the world, and pushing ourselves to adapt in ways large and small to be better bridges for communication. We relied upon respect, and remembered our friends and perhaps will never see the world or ourselves in quite the same way. I feel privileged to have gone on this study abroad program with my class, and thank both FIU and EDHEC Business School for making it possible. Sincerely hope to keep in touch with everyone—Nicola Alcantara<\/strong>, Alicia Corbett<\/strong>, Oscar De Lima<\/strong>, Desire Colluci Gorno<\/strong>, Nithya Harihan<\/strong>, Matilda Kalaveshi<\/strong>, Caitlin Nolan<\/strong> and Desiree Ruiz<\/strong>—and have a truly wonderful class reunion one day soon.<\/p>\nView all articles by Frank McGuinness<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to the cross-Atlantic journeys of Florida International University\u2019s (FIU) International MBA 2010 class attending EDHEC\u2019s Corporate Strategies for Europe program, and along the way learning a lot about ourselves. When you last read of our sojourn, we had been enjoying our first week in Nice, sampling the flavors of local cuisine, beginning new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[954,1151,1158,1164,2508],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29261,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions\/29261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}