City-As-Text

INTRO(1 page for sure I think)

1. Describe your preconceptions about the cultures and countries you visited 


a. Google “London sterotypes” “Parisian sterotypes” like ur general pre conception of London and paris before you visit. “how you think people act, how you think people talk, how the food would be like in London/ paris, how you think the transportation would be like in London/ Paris. Etc.” This should give you an esay1.5-2 pages from talking about preconceptions from both countries of each category I mentioned

BODY (4-4.5 pages) 2. Report the findings from your exploration. Your report should

answer the following:

a. What did you learn on the sight seeing tours? Include a discussion on: (research the history of these places and briefly talk about all the history I learned from them all of them)

• London: visited tower of London + the mini museums inside the tower of London(crown jewels, armory), saw Buckingham palace(outside),rode eye of London, Saw big ben outside, did boat tour of thames river, bus tour of different neighborhoods of London (more indepth below)

• Paris: Visit Eiffel tower obviously (did not goto the

top), went inside castle of Versailles (saw the giant room of mirrors. Google history of that room), saw Arc de Triomph, saw norte dame, did boat tour of seine river, saw the louve. (sick af), saw mona lisa inside louve. Stayed the republic plaza

• With whom you spoke.

In London: I spoke with the tour guide Richard a lot. He talked about how living in the city is quite expensive, he lives a few minutes outside the city, I spoke with random strangers asking them how to get places, they gave helpful hints on some areas not to go because they could be dangerous by yourself, food recommendations, etc. (bullshit I did not)

In paris: I spoke with many of the waiters/ waitresses asking them how long they have been living there, some food recommendations, tips on French phrases to get around. I spoke to a crepe maker who worked the crepe stand and asked him how long he been in Paris. Turns out he was from like Poland or something and learned French quickly and has been living in paris for 1 year only. He spoke English. He taught me that you don’t need much French to get by in paris. The people want to make money and so if they don’t English they lose potential sales. (smart guy sucks hes working at crepe stand)

• What you learned about the people who live/work/study/were visiting in the areas you observed.

London: again I learned that the people who live in the city of London, usually have nice paying jobs because it is expensive to live there (high taxes cuz of universal healthcare) most people live 20 minutes outside the city and commute to work. The tourist love

London because its easy to communicate. No language barrier. And super nice

Paris: what I learned from people who live/work/ study there.. not much. Again I do not speak freak the very few instances I talked with people were the waiters/ one crepe maker guy. What I learned from them is that Paris is a nice city and the people are like coconut. Hard outside, soft inside. They don’t like when you causally ask them about their day, because they feel “why does he care? I will never see this person again” but once you break through that tough outer layer Parisians are soft and loving people who care about their own kind.

BODY P.2( 2-2.5 pages easy)

b. What did you learn from the company visits? 


Use all of these companies below. vvvvv

• London Companies: we visited Eurostar. is an international high-speed railway service connecting London with Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Disneyland Paris, Lille, Fréthun, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, and Rotterdam. All its trains travel through the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France, owned and operated separately by Getlink. (Getlink is a European public company based in Paris, that manages and operates the Channel Tunnel between England and France)

I learned from them, the history of the Eurostar company, they went over their business model, their sales techniques (making special deals with frequent traveler to get discounted business class (1st class) rates) they were very organized, very professional, very diverse

work culture (lady from france worked their and she worked with the guy born in London) they were punctual and started presentation on time.

• London: Next company is Jelly fish. Marketing and advertising company. Google’s leading global partner working with Uber, eBay, Disney, Spotify, Skype, Nestlé, Ford, Aviva, UGG and ASOS - and many more. They had beautiful office on the 40th floor of “the shard” aka tallest building in London. Crazy view. They basically get business’s and put their ads to be #1 when you search something on google. And they are really good at doing that hence the fire office. They make gwap. Digital Marekting an media is the future. They were not as prepared/ orgnazied as Eurostar because they were younger and had more relaxed work culture. Super cool young smart people working their from again a multicultural background. One person was actually from NY, another from London. The offices were very centered around working together and not having individual cubical. Modern/millennial work cultural. What I leaned from then is how to work well with others and how communication is key.

Paris companies: 1st. Is entrepreneur who started hopstate. Basically he was selected by the French government(they give his company like 60k for first year and france ID) to move his start up business from Australia to france. To help grow france’s startup community. His business was helping turn france into a smart city. By modernizing and computerizing some basic customer service representative jobs. Think of like trying instead of trying reach a live person, you could just answered the automated questions and then received the help you needed. Reduce the the wait times for random phone line stuff. What I learned from him is to be passionate and determined about something. He literally said fuck it and decided to move to a country where he didn’t know the language and pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur. Took a shit ton of balls and I learned how if you want something you got to be relentless in trying to achieve it.

Paris 2nd company: AMCHAM. represents companies committed to

the transatlantic relationship (companies doing business with each other across Atlantic Ocean). Contribute/ host debates and seminars for companies that are in this essentially frat. Companies within this exclusive group get like access to industry seminars and again debates on how to better government laws to benefit companies doing business across seas. Ngl this shit was boring AFFF my nigga. I slept while this lady read off a PowerPoint the whole time. The only thing I learned is that being a part of this company can lead to bigger networking opportunities. I learned no life lessons to better my career. Shit sucked dick lmfao.

Paris 3rd company: was IFC international finance corporation not intrafraternal council lmfao. They essentially a finance company that helps fund smaller companies in global/ emerging markets. (so like south Africa, Latin American counties, Asian, they do it all) and they will research a company, asses the company to see if they are stable enough to pay back IFC (cuz ifc Lends money) and then they will, if everything good, give the company money to fund a project. They ONLY lend to companies looking to do shit to better the community. So some type of good deed has to be the reason for the need of the funding. Think like random company wants to open up new location and it will give jobs to many people in new area. They is good deed. A company wants to building new facility to make more environmentally friendly, they will do it because good deed. Life lesson I learned from them is that 1. They will never hire me because you need to be balls deep in investment banking to even get intership with that company but 2. In all seriousness the lady giving presentation was some like corporate lady and she didn’t play around. So like if ur gonna work in finance you aint got time for games.

ENDING(1 page) c. Did your findings support or contradict your preconceptions?

How so? 


Talk about how the stereotypes of Londoners / Parisians were either right or wrong. How the transportation in London/ Paris was similar or contradicted your preconceptions. I’m leaving the creativity up to you.

d. How you will be able to use what you have learned on your visit to advance your career 


• No cap this trip made me lil more bolder. Ive never even left the country let alone travel to Europe by myself for 10 days with complete strangers. The group of friend I made on this trip are some of the coolest people ve met. This trip def grew me out of my shell a little bit but barely bro. im still the same kid I used to be. All I am now is that I can say “yeah I went to London/ paris” but the first week I got back I was feeling myself heavy lmfao. Was feeling all gassed up cuz I was speaking basic French in paris and I felt like I conquered the place. Now those feelings of confidence have faded because im being consumed by work and school and I forgot about the shit I learned on the trip. Low key im writing this like a diary to you cuz fuck it. But anyway bro LMAO. Use the last sentence of each company summary to reiterate the LIFE LESSONs I learned from each of the companies to bullshit this part. (I.e : being punctual, being passionate about work, not stopping until I get what I want)

Optional day by day breakdown of what I did for more info / to back up credibility some more. Also if ur bored this will tell you what I did basically

London day1 : river boat tour from tower of London to big ben, then walking tour from big ben, to Westminster palace (basically big ben), kept walking though soho area of London(cool vibes, nice stores, lot of torusit) then got to Buckingham palace finally. At night rode the eye of London (giant fierris wheel. Cool asf, dope view, etc). Had dinner at a nice place by the hotel. Just stayed in and relaxed after long day of traveling and walking tour.

London day2: Start of the day we did a bus sight seeing tour of all the different areas in london. We saw the wealthiest neighborhood in all of London fro outside. Saw a few parks, drove past the building where they filmed the harry potter “Diagon Alley” scene. Then after driving around for about an hour we actually went inside the tower of London instead of looking from outside (basically a big ass fort back in the day. Research about the armory and the Crown Jewels museum inside tower of London) lots of history. Crown jewel museum is mini museum inside the fort that has all the kings and queen’s crown’s and holy scepters/ royal family artifacts. The armory is another mini museum inside this giant fort that has old ass knight gear from medieval times. Cool shit. ---- ---After the tour a group of us classmates went back to hotel and changed to explore the city of London at night. We rode the London underground and kavir that shit was cool af bro lmfao. It’s the nicest subway system ive ever seen. Super easy to use, we bought an “Oyster Card” (metro card) and loaded it up with $10 and that was enough to rid the subway multiple times back and forth all through out London. We ate fish and chips for lunch at Poppie’s fish and chips. **mention our tour guide RICHARD helped us with the recommendation** then We visited an area called

Shoreditch that was very reminiscent of Miami’s very own wynwood. Lots of cool restaurants, bars, street art. (literally talk about how much it was like wynwood, the people there were young and artsy, etc)

Day 3 IN LONDON; after visiting the companies decided to make the most of our last night in London and decided to shop around the Piccadilly cirus area. (basically the time square of London just google it, its lit) and then eat at nice rooftop restaurant. Was pretty pricey so we mainly just got 1 drink and small appetizer. Vibed and walked around the city at nigh. Was cool af. Filmed tik tok for like 3 hours till 3 am

Paris day1: went to sleep at 3 am and had to wake up at 7 to get on the Eurostar train to paris. Was fucking rough as lol. Napped on Eurostar train and woke up in france. The train ride was cool experience super nice and clean, yes this is same Eurostar company we visited. Got to Paris, checked into hotel, and then went on boat ride in Paris of seine river. Saw Eiffel tower from boat was sick. Then we went to dinner at some place by hotel and food was ight.

Paris 2: after visiting business we went to louve. Sick asf. Peep my IG for the sick pictures there. I ate at inside the louve and it was dope. Drank fuck ton of wine and was sick. After louve we went back to hotel changed and then we went just vibed.

Paris 3: after company visits we went to eat lunch somewhere by the arch de triumph and had fire lunch. Peep my IG stories on my feed, the food was lit. then at night we went to some fucking club called VIProom paris and it was so empty we got a table anb bottle for no reason, was fun tho so fuck it lol. Took the L and went back to apartment.

Paris 4: had final presentations about what we learned on trip so far whatever whatever, then we went to go see the castle of Versailles and that shit was sick af, peep my IG again in the stories bubble. At night we went to some restaurant an ate decent, drank more wine, and found a low key bar that was basically a disco club. Nigga im talking space vibes, that shit was so fire, wish I was rolling, but got faded and partied at a mini space, some many French hoes, we left and KO at like 4 am lmfao.

Paris day 5: all we did was shop, I went to supreme store and got dope shirt, and then we vibed the last night and got drunk again.

Paris day6: woke up early and left to airport and took 8 hour pane back to Miami, The end. Was dope trip, great experience but fuck man. Shit show, I left when corona virus was about to pop off, Paris had like 13 cases before I left and they shut down the louve.