Bonjour bonjour!
Le weekend s'est très bien passé ici en France! What a full and frenetic weekend our students have had! We caught up with them bright and early this morning. After a day and a half of having to parler le French, our élèves found their voice with a vengeance and couldn't wait to regale us with their stories...
Some had experienced the historic theme park Le Puy de Fou with its live animals (a lion in the Roman colesseum, a bird show). Others were entertained in Nantes with its giant mechanical elephant, including Mr Spurdell. Perhaps the most unusual sortie was Saturday night's fête des couleurs; several students took part in this colourful festivity which required them to throw coloured powder at each other. As far as we can gather, this resembled the Indian Holi festival.
Many had enjoyed crêpes and glaces at the beach and all had apparently eaten their weight in sucreries (sugar!!), and had only a small appetite for yet more bonbons during today's supermarket stop.
Only two students had succeeded in dropping their phones into the sea (George!), and down the toilet (Hannah!); a 20/22 success rate.
Today we began the day at Le Manoir des Sciences de Réaumur: a museum dedicated to the scientist Réaumur who, as we found out today, invented taxidermy and the thermometer! We had a tour of his recreated house and studio en français (bien sûr!), followed by an atelier (workshop) on... la couleur!
In the afternoon we recovered from so much learning, and sheltered from the rain, with a healthy dose of retail therapy. This allowed for replenishing supplies of sweets and chocolate. But, more importantly, we set students the €5 challenge of buying themselves an authentically French souvenir of their visit.
Tomorrow we're off to Futuroscope - a highlight for lots, particularly Maisie, Abby and Holly for whom it will be their third visit!
Bonne soirée à tous!
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