[caption id="attachment_2585" align="alignnone" width="640"] Bastille Day fireworks at the beach in St-Laurent-du-Var[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2586" align="alignnone" width="640"] Another shot of Bastille Day festivities at the beach in St-Laurent-du-Var[/caption] -Leslie Faucheux Discover our programs in France ...
Saturday, for our weekend excursion, we took a 50-minute train ride to Cannes. A few others and I decided to leave on an earlier train, so we could have more free time to explore Cannes and the islands around it. Our early departure turned out to be a great idea, because the rest of the program who went later were stuck waiting at the train ...
This weekend has definitely been an exciting one! Saturday, we all ventured to Cannes! Many of us spent our days shopping, while others went to the beach… I was lucky to have partaken in both. Saturday was also one of the students’ birthdays, so after our day of shopping and beach-going in Cannes, we gathered for a celebratory birthday ...
The last few days have been so much fun. From learning a traditional French dance to watching Bastille Day fireworks, we are definitely making memories that will last a lifetime! Thursday night, we learned the traditional dance of Provence. We danced in the street to fiddle, accordion, and guitar music. Friday after our morning French class, ...
Thursday was a pretty typical day. In the afternoon after our lunch break, we went to the swimming pool again and had a stipend dinner. Later that night though we had balleti dance, which is Provence's traditional dance. It was really fun, but hard to do, because you are constantly spinning in circles and having to switch places with people and ...
The three days since my last post make up my second weekend in France. At the end of the day on Friday, we went to a small movie theater in the center of Aix to see a movie named Le Congrès (or The Congress as it will be called when it reaches North American theaters in 2014) that was featured at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It ...
This weekend was amazing, and full of water activities and first time experiences! We started off our Saturday by going kayaking, a first for many, including me. It may look easy, but it takes a lot more arm muscle than you may realize. Quinson Lake, where we kayaked, was surrounded by beautiful mountains. Thus there were no dull moments. We ...
Here I am on Bastille Day, drinking tea at a perfect cafe and having a chat with my friends. It is almost unbelievable that two weeks have already passed... It feels like so little, but at the same time it feels so long. Past, present, and future mingle in my mind while I watch people walk down the street, all going in different directions, ...
Week two has been a busy one in Nice. We started out the week in our French classes learning about food and cultural differences. On Tuesday we visited an organic boulangerie that makes specialty breads on the west side of Nice. Among the many things we got to taste were truffle bread, goat cheese bread, and even a black bread made with ...
We continue our adventures in Aix... On Thursday afternoon, we visited a contemporary art exhibition at the Pavillon Vandôme, a baroque building with its jardin à la française. That evening, we had the chance to dance traditional french dances called baleti in the public plaza. The musicians stood in the middle, playing violin, accordion, ...