Less than a week after the deadly attacks in Paris, residents are trying to resume their live as best they can.

That includes Nellie Peyton, a 23-year-old New Yorker who has been living in Paris for the past two years, studying international affairs and journalism. WNYC's Jami Floyd last checked in with her after the attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January, then again on Friday, and they have kept in touch via email and Twitter.

Peyton said she'd only been in Paris for five months when the Charlie Hebdo attack occurred and she felt like an outsider looking in on others' grief. "To some extent, I think that I couldn't understand the attack in the same way the French people did, because I didn't know the meaning of Charlie Hebdo and their culture," she said. "This time, I feel that I am really part of the group that was targeted during these attacks."

Peyton lives just four blocks away from the restaurants that were attacked on Friday. She spent the night in her apartment, and didn't come out until Saturday afternoon. She said the atmosphere this time is different: whereas residents were more openly defiant and angry after Charlie Hebdo, she said that now people seem more on edge.

In this interview, WNYC's Jami Floyd talks with Peyton about how she's recovering.