The concert last night was a very neat experience. The Opera Comédie was built in 1888 in the
style of Paris’s famous Opera Garnier.
Even though I had seats in the upper most balcony, it was still incredible
to enjoy a concert in a place that old and elegant.
Today, my host parents helped me plot out my spring break
trip that is coming up in two weeks. I
will start in Bordeaux and spend two days in that area before leaving for Saint
Malo, an ancient corsair city in Brittany on the north-west peninsula of
France. After that I will head to
Mont-St.-Michel, and after that to Bayeux, where I will see the Normandy
landing beaches. After that, it is back
south to the Loire river-valley, where I will stay a night with my host-dad’s
family coinciding with his visit there.
From there, I will rent a bicycle and do a biking trip of some nearby
chateaux, and the next day I will see the two most famous chateaux of the area,
Chambord and Chenanceaux. By that time,
it will already have been a week and a half of travel and I will catch a train
home to Montpellier to spend my last week in France writing final papers and
enjoying the seaside sun.
We had a great lunch today, roasted goose. It tasted a lot like turkey, but was even
more delicious in my opinion. With it we
had a great Pays d’Oc wine from this region.
After cheese and dessert (petite gateaux) we all enjoyed coffee on the
backyard patio in the warm sun. I read
an article in a French magazine about the impact that the chateaux have had on
France’s history, culture, and national identity and also memorized a poem/prose/Aesop
for my phonetics oral exam tomorrow. Now
I will be working on some more homework and my radio shows and enjoying the
good weather.
À bientôt, Nick.
No comments:
Post a Comment