Diversity at Le Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu Paris is home to only 340 students at a time. That, as our director said, is considered “capacity”. Located in a major European city, I suppose some diversity is expected, but I surely didn’t expect THIS much diversity!

My class, my 30-student intensive basic pastry class, is home to a ton of nationalities! Today I sat next to a young girl from London and an older woman from Pakistan and had lovely conversations with both. Aside from them we have women and men from Mumbai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Texas, Columbia, Germany, Spain, South Africa and others that I can’t even remember. I’ve been a part of very diverse groups before, but none groups so small and so diverse.

I’m not too good at making friends, but so far learning our differences has been the most fascinating part and I’m actually itching to have more conversations with them about their pasts and reason why they’ve joined the Cordon Bleu family.

~Sarah