Our stay in Paris has been bustling! It is not easy to see everything Paris has to offer in so little time, but we have given it a good effort! We have visited Centre Pompidou, Le Louvre, Le Musée D’Orsay, the Tuileries, the Luxembourg gardens, the Champs Elysees, Trocadero, the Eiffel Tower, a Bateau Mouche, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, the Moulin Rouge, Chartres, Versailles, and I am sure I am forgetting something. So you see where we have been a little busy! But I am getting ahead of myself. . .
We spent a magnificent week in Morgat riding bikes, hiking, even surfing! July in Brittany is absolutely beautiful in spite of its strange weather pattern that brought two minutes of rain (literally) before the sky turned blue and the sun beat down again. The incomprehensible weather could not dampen our spirits, however! Our week here was jam-packed with activities ranging from excursions to the market in a neighboring town where our students bought foods for an incredible picnic lunch, to an afternoon-long internship at various establishments in Morgat. We even went to a music festival and danced ourselves silly! We emphasized contact with native speakers early so that our students feel more comfortable when they do meet their host families.
Language lessons included vocabulary about restaurant etiquette, foods, clothing, parts of the body (we played “Simon Says” and sang “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes”), how to ask for and receive directions to get from one place to another, etc. The lessons were dynamic and fun and incorporated everything from grammar reviews to photo scavenger hunts.
We are off tomorrow to Blois to visit the magnificent Chateaux in the Loire Valley before going to Montpellier to stay with French families! We hope all is well back in the States.
A tout à l’heure!
Tim and Laura
