“Start Spreading the News…”

"I'm leaving today..." She was a great big part of it, about a week ago: New York, New York! Frank Sinatra had it right, she thought. When you're there, you can't not be a part of it, part of all the hustle and bustle, the noise, the never-ending life that a city so big will…

The Cinéscénie du Puy du Fou

And he named his son Jacques; and he named his son Jacques; and he named his son Jacques… If our girl was to name one thing that she saw in France that she absolutely loved, one thing that would be the reason of her definite future return to France, one thing that was so special…

Paris vous aime…

Paris loves you. That is lovely, but definitely not the feeling our girl got when she reached the famous city of love and lights. Or maybe "Paris vous aime" means "Paris likes you," because there's apparently no difference in the french language between like and love. Our girl is going to be a good sport…

The marble people and the monsieur

The "Galerie David d'Angers" was a calm and relaxing experience and yes, those are the best words this girl can come up with to describe the room full of sculptures she walked into this afternoon. Calm and relaxed were the sculptures alright, their expressions forever frozen in time. For our girl, it was like walking…

Life at the Chateaux (part 2)

Le Chateau de Chambord She particularly liked the Chateau de Chambord. It was much bigger than the Chateau de Chenonceau, or at least it seemed like it was... With a much different layout and structure it was white and blue, tall and brooding, with dominant towers that one could only describe as architectural sensations. The…

The Mont Saint-Michel

Ever since she first found out about the Mont Saint-Michel, in eighth grade, she wanted to go, to be a part of its brilliant story.... She approached the mount, the abbey, walking across the wooden large bridge that led to it. She kept approaching, with a squealing excitement inside of her. Finally! The vast land…

Life at the Chateaux (part 1)

Le Chateau d'Angers  Rain was pouring down hard the day she visited the Chateau d'Angers. It was refreshing... It was... imagination, dream and thought provoking. The towers were dominant, circular... darker... Darker than those of all the other chateaux she's visited in her time in France. A chateau of the middle ages. "Stones: they are…

A journey to the past…

"Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time." Shakespear - Sonnet 55 A journey to the past... That is indeed what our girl felt like she was experiencing when she visited the Normandy American…

The Fairy Garden

When she told her friends she was going to go exploring, she never expected to find the land of the fairies. Thrilled and joyous, after a 40-minute walk from her school, she finally entered the Arboretum Gaston Allard, the biggest most beautiful garden she had ever seen thus far in her happy life. With little…

French Immersion in Angers: The city

Greetings, I have a story to tell you. It's a simple story, a nostalgic and beautiful story, a romantic, adventurous story. It begins with a girl. A simple, adventurous, romantic girl... So, once upon a time, there was a girl... Young and ambitious, with a passion for french literature and writing, for rock-climbing and for…