At this point, we have less than a week here in Aix-en-Provence and just one final blog post after this one. Therefore, many others and I are scrambling to finish some things. Maybe work on our last art pieces while still having the inspiration here that cannot be easily found. Trying every coffee on the menu at one particular café. Finding ...
by Riley H. Well, it’s our one-week anniversary with each other here in France. Through the ups and downs of any new experience, we have found ourselves mostly settled and familiar with the town (we only sometimes get lost, and we always find our way back to our temporary home). Our days are long and full, rich with laughter, stories, ...
For our last cooking group in Aix, we gave the students a special recipe for the Iron Chef competition. Team by team, they worked out rapidity, aesthetics, and flavors and cooked for a jury. It was a difficult decision to choose the best team! They prepared as first dish with a fresh salad of grapefruit and endives, then stuffed zucchinis with ...
Bonjour tout le monde from Aix-en-Provence! It's hard to believe that our trip is finally coming to an end... Aix feels like home for all of us now. It will be strange having to shift back to the American lifestyle after living for so long in France. The past few days have been so fun! The highlight of Wednesday, in my opinion, was the iron ...
Wednesday was a day of history... We went to a former Deportation Camp that was active during World War II. It was amazing to learn how the people held inside the camp entertained themselves. They would put on plays and concerts and make sculptures. Also, many of them left pieces of their stories behind in artwork on the walls. The Camp des ...
Avignon, nougat ice-cream, Le Palais des Papes, watching acrobats performing in the street, Le Pont d'Avignon, mousse de chocolat, the scent of lavender, all seasoned with music coming from everywhere around is the recipe for a wonderful day in Provence. I told you before how, for me, this experience has been a mix of new and old. Avignon, as ...
We spent another fabulous weekend in the south of France! Saturday we went to Marseille and visited the soap factory of the famous and original Savon de Marseille. We walked through a very cute village in the neighborhood of le Vieux Panier and had the opportunity to go to a contemporary art exhibition. Lots of different interactive pieces ...
Thursday afternoon, after class, we went to an exhibition featuring works by artists such as Cezanne, who lived and painted in Aix, Picasso, Matisse, and many more. After some free time, the staff took us to a restaurant where we ate a mix of different foods such as prosciutto, potatoes, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and meat with salad. It was so ...
Saturday- only halfway through another weekend, and there is already so much to talk about. Over the past few days, we have done a number of activities, such as visiting the Granet Museum and returning to Marseille to see the Marseille soap factory. Out of all of the different art exhibitions and museums that we have seen over the past few ...
On Thursday, we started our day with class and followed that by being given our choice of going to the pool or a museum as our afternoon activity. I chose to go to the pool with some friends, because we felt like we needed a cold dip to cool off. Unfortunately for us, it started raining. We would have never expected that the day we chose to go ...