Follow up

This summer in Nice is just one of the reasons that this past year has been the best in my life.  Throughout the program I was able to do things Id never dreamed of doing, and I learned so much about being in a foreign place, and about that foreign place.  Throughout the program I was immersed in the French language, I learned more than I had in any of my French classes in the past few years combined.  I am so grateful for the opportunity to travel abroad this sumer.  I was able to see the second smallest country in the world, Monaco, (only preceded by Vatican City).  We also travelled to Italy, which was very similar to France, however it was impossible to understand!  Overall, it was the best summer experience of my life so far, and its given me a good insight on what I want to do in the future.

Italy!!!!

Today we went to Italy.  It was very similar to Nice, except it was all Italian!

St Paul de Vence

We visited St Paul de Vence, and despite the insane rain, we had a great time.  We first explored The Fondation Maeghtin.  There is lots of modern art there.  Some of it did not appeal to us, but we found one piece that we all enjoyed thoroughly.  Some argued that it was the greatest piece of art in all of France.

This is "Fontaine" by Pol Bury.  Its a very movement-full water feature, and its very exciting.

The Fondation Maeghtin St Paul de Vence

Bowling!

Bowling is always fun, especially when you do well.  We went bowling and it was a blast.  Its fun participating in friendly competition.  It reminds me of the olympics.  The entire world is gathering and keeping peace for 17 days to show their best athletes.  I think it is just incredible, and I wish that every day was like the olympics; friendly and mutually respectful.

Last day of classes

Today was the last day of classes.  The French and Photography classes have been fantastic and I've learned so much.  Thank you to Cyril and Maxim for being awesome teachers and making both subjects interesting and fun, while still presenting a challenge and giving the feeling of accomplishment.

Frégate

Like we do almost every week, we went to the beach adjacent to the Frégate hotel and restaurant.  Today at the beach we rode tandem kayaks, which was a lot of fun.  Its nice having some (kind of) down-time, to relax from the busy and fun filled schedule of the program.  After kayaking and drying on the beach I and some others went up to the restaurant's kitchen to prepare the nights meal.  We had Salmon with lemons, tomato, and thyme.  Along with it, we had a cucumber salad, with what seemed like hundreds of cucumbers that I cut and peeled.  It was worth it.  After that we had tiramisu.  Yum.  

The day as always was very enjoyable.