Week 2

Wednesday last week was a funny day. According to Charlotte, approximately 100 days before le BAC starts, the seniors dress up in costumes and sell candy/collect donations in order to throw one last bash. This day is supposed to mark the last day before the official studying begins. Needless to say, there were a lot of people dressed up in strange/funny costumes running around the school.

Saintes

This weekend, we visited Saintes with Charlotte's dad and step-mom. For lunch on Saturday, we went to this little pizza place that served us incredibly delicious pizza. It is an authentic Italian pizza place and they cook the pizzas in a wood fire oven. 

We also went to this church that was built on a lake.

Saintes is also home of an old Roman amphitheater that was an incredible sight. We weren't actually able to go in because it was closing when we got there but the sight alone in enoughto make you wonder. We also visited a Roman water system that still supplies water to Saintes. It is almost entirely underground with a couple of spots where you can see it begins. My question is, well technically her dad's question because he asked it at least 10 times is, how did they know what direction to dig? Hmm....

Et voilà!

C'est Isabelle!

Bonjour classe de francais (et plus...?) !!
Isabelle/ Haley is finally getting around to signing in here, merci to Lauren for diligently keeping up...

France is gorgeous! (Bien sur) This week has just been crazy school... appreciate the U.S. education while you can, kids, because France is famous for their unique and grueling schedule. Classes are different every day, and my week with Audrey has been all over the place. Tuesday was tough with about ten hours of classes-- Biology, Physics/ Chemistry, Algebra, History and Geography, French, German... we didn't get home until after 6 o'clock at night!
Mais, mecredi est tres bon:) Just two 2-hour classes then out to shop and enjoy la soleil.

It's nearly impossible to understand everything that is going on and being said around us, so we're just trying to soak it all in and starting talking as much as possible.
Et, Audrey and I might go to La Rochelle this weekend. A Bientot!

Lundi: Sciences Économiques et Sociale, Français, Anglais, Mathématiques, Histoire-Géographie
Mardi: Français, Maths, Math Option, Anglais, DNL, Allemand, Atelier
Mercredi: Sciences Économiques et Sociale, et Biologie 

Monday was the toughest day so far, knowing that you're going to go to a French school is so different than actually going there. It's weird to hear the conversation around you but not really understand what's going on. Everything seems to be spoken so fast. It's going to take some time to get used to but that's normal. As you can see, Wednesday only has two classes and the first class doesn't start until 9:05; there's 2 hours of SES and 1 1/2 hours of Biology. After that, we get to go home :)


 

The Plane :D

On the bus riding to the hotel :)

En France!!

So we arrived in Paris yesterday morning around 8:30 (2 am Warsaw time) and then we split up. Haley took the train with her host family back to Niort and I stayed in Paris for a little while with mine. We spent some time in Paris taking in the sights, we drove past L'Arc de Triompe and we also drove past Le Tour d'Eiffel. We went to a bistro for lunch and then we walked around for a little bit more. We also took the metro to Trocadéro where we had this amazing view of Le Tour d'Eiffel. Overall it was a pretty successful first day :)