Danielle
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Hey mom! Here are all my pictures you ask for.
Bonjour France!
Here is the best I will probably be able to do for a research picture in France. Because I am meeting with military personnel and government officials, I often cannot get pictures with them. This is just outside the US Embassy in France - taken after a day of meeting with US military officials who work with the French military.
As you can see, this picture is not taken at the embassy or before a meeting with military officials. I started my fellowship in Europe by spending time with my best friend and her family, who were on vacation in Cannes. Here is a picture of us before heading to a Cannes Film Festival Ceremony and pretending like we know something about movies.
The streets of Cannes - everything in France is immaculate.
Train buddies. Eeyore, my most loyal stuffed animal, has quite a bit of the world to see this year.
Matcha chocolate chip cookie. I know it looks bad but..take my word for it.
My twin brother, Dylan, on his first day in Paris! He smiled through all the pictures I made him take.
Omaha Beach
My brother and I went up to Normandy and visited the WWII museum, Pointe du Hoc, and Omaha Beach -- something every American should do before they die. It was a jarring reminder amidst research on the war the simultaneous good and bad war can bring. We lost many, many soldiers, and many thousands of French civilians died in the battle of Normandy as well. We also shaped the history of the world and no doubt saved hundreds of thousands of lives by liberating Europe and eventually toppling Nazi control.
WWII Museum - Normandy, France
WWII Museum - Normandy, France. Timely and prescient reminder from the museum curators..
My brother and I on Omaha Beach
Grid of Allied Landings for Operation Overlord, the codename for the Battle of Normandy
Normandy American Cemetery
Devoted to the 10,000 American soldiers who lost their lives in Europe during WWII
Geneva - 5/25-5/28
Miller, a rockstar friend who is interning at the UN World Health Organization in Geneva, giving me the local tour!
I'll let this one speak for itself.
Chamonix, the highest peak in Europe - 2 hour train ride from Geneva
Pretending we've seen snow before in KY
The rain jacket was the warmest thing I packed for the year..
The story behind these photos - reference right. Paid for tickets to Mer de Glace, took the 20 minute train to the top, as my brother took this picture, I noticed ~20 Spanish soldiers trekking past us.. so I had to talk to them. Tracked down the one English speaker in the group and took the train down with them. Good thing Dylan was unfazed as he has learned to put up with my antics.. thanks for snapping both pictures anyways. A good 2 minutes spent at the top of Mer de Glace.
Back to Paris - 5/28 ->6/8
Adjusting to the all-carb European diet
A safe distance from the tourists and a good photo..but you get the point
I know it is a selfie and I am kind of missing the building but I am alone here - pictures are hard. Taken after meeting with French military officers at the French Ministry of the Army, their version of our Pentagon
The Tocqueville Conversations: Democracy in the West - Towards a Vision for the Twenty-First Century
8-9 June 2018
In the current context of the kindred challenges to the West on both sides of the Atlantic, the Atlantic Council and descendants of Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote one of the most famous pieces of all time (Democracy in America), put on a conference to discuss democracy at the stunning Chateau de Tocqueville in northern France.
The discussionwill brought together Europeans and Americans in Normandy, a symbolic home of the enduring transatlanticrelationship. The intention of the gathering in Normandy is to inaugurate the firstrendez-vous of many, for what they call, “The Tocqueville Conversations.” The purpose will be not onlyto cast our gaze upon the immediate events that concern us, but as Tocqueville famously wrote inDemocracy in America, “to consider the whole future.”
The premise of the conference: From America to the boundaries of Europe, waves of political rebellion are sweeping the West. Theyreveal a crisis of trust between citizens and their governing elites. Our democracies are being put to thetest. Our societies are in doubt, and increasingly animated by a widespread rejection of the model ofglobalization and open borders in force since 1989. Amidst this turmoil, our alliances weaken.Nationalism and even regionalism are coming back. The unanswered question of borders, the difficulty ofthe nation State to cope with mass immigration and the cultural insecurity triggered by terrorism, thebroader question of the place of Islam in our secularized societies, fuel this political volatility. In thiscontext, authoritarian and anti-liberal temptations emerge, facilitated by a revolution of technologicalinformation that opens up formidable spaces for freedom, but also vast opportunities for manipulationand ideological warfare