Study abroad student witnesses tragedy in Paris
By Emma-Cate Rapose Parisians sing as Notre Dame de Paris burns Katarina Trifunovic had just finished a semester studying abroad at City, University of London in April 2019 when her mother came to visit. After the stress of a semester over 5,500 miles away from her home in Carlsbad, California, she and her mother decided to take a couple of days to explore another European city - Paris, France. Trifunovic and her mother spent the morning of April 15 exploring the city, spending time at the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre before settling down for some macaroons and tea at a local cafe. They then proceeded to take a walk around the city around 6 p.m., when her mother noticed something strange in the distance. “Why is there smoke over there? That’s super weird,” Trifunovic heard her mother say. Trifunovic looked up and thought nothing of the smoke at first, assuming it was a factory producing the cloud filling the sky, just like in London. She then realized she was in Paris...