jeudi 10 mars 2011
Back to Nantes
Et si finalement ce n'était que le début d'une nouvelle aventure ...?
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mercredi 9 mars 2011
Retour pluvieux
Dernier message de Seattle où nous attendons dans le hall de l'aéroport avant de prendre notre avion pour Paris CdG! Nous passons passer l'enregistrement presque sans encombre. En effet, Pauline a dû se séparer, à contre cœur, d'un pot de beurre de cacahuètes 'made in USA' (sniff sniff).
Nous quittons Seattle, sous un ciel typique de la région qu'on appelle ici "liquid sunshine".
A bientôt en France.
mardi 8 mars 2011
Tuesday 8th March
Nous en avons profité pour prendre quelques photos avec leur correspondant qui nous ont accueillis si gentiment.
Adrien & Conner
Adrien : The second weekend I slept until eleven o'clock and had a very lazy morning. We had a very good brunch, with lots of French toast, bacon and fruit. In the afternoon we went to The Museum of Flight it was very interesting (we walked through the Concorde: it was very small. We also saw a blackbird: NASA's spy plane).
In the late afternoon we went to a downtown office building and went to the 43rd floor. We had great views of Seattle. We met all the French students and the host families at a bowling alley in Kirkland. I played three games (but Mr Colin was the best). It was Edgar's birthday and Ms Davis brought a cake for him. The party was very fun.
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lundi 7 mars 2011
University Monday 7th March by Caroline
We walked until a book shop situated near the university district, where we could buy souvenirs, there was a lot of Huskies stuff (a famous university sport team).
Afterwards we met a young woman (very pretty, for the biggest happiness of the French boys), Kendra Clawsom.
She was at Seattle Prep a couple of years ago, and now she's studying in the University, she wants to be a nurse later. She explained to us that, in this moment she does general studies, and she is a sophomore (so the second and last year) but after that she will do specialized, with subjects closer of her future job.
She made us visit some places in the university : the library, which is very silent, but the place where the students eat too, which is noisier.
We walked between all the buildings and she explained to us all the cherry trees from the park are actually gifts from the Japanese after World War II.
So we learned a lot !
Moreover, Kendra lives in a house with other girl students, they are like a community. There are so may houses like that one in the U district, not mixed, students share their bedrooms, from 4 persons to 8 persons by room. We asked her about the price of the university, and Kendra said it's around 2300 $ for 3 months, and the same price to live in her house.
Then we said goodbye to our guide, and went in a park to have a picnic.
In the afternoon we visited the Burke Museum, where there was an exhibition about other cultures, former practices of some tribes ...
We wrote all notes on a questionnaire, so Madame Fletcher will check if we did good work (and of course we did.)
To finish we took the bus to the school, where everybody could find their correpondants and come back home.
Caroline
dimanche 6 mars 2011
Aldric (vendredi)
Aldric
(en français et avec 2 jours de retard)
Mona's weekend
After that we got to go shopping at Bellevue Square, we went to Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Nordstrom's Brass Plum. Later that night, the Runacres family and I went to The Palisade for dinner. The food was delicious, and in the restaurant there was a large fish pond with dark colored fish, sea anemone, and starfish.
On Sunday I went to Chelsea's sister Lilly's volleyball game. She played very well but her team did not win. Then we drove to the bowling party. The place where we went bowling was very close to Chelsea's horse barn, so I had been to the neighborhood before. Once we got home after bowling Chelsea's french friend Elena came over and we took her dog Spencer for a walk around the block.
Mona
Sunday 6th March
Pierre-Louis (Samedi)
Saturday evening, my host family and I attended the Huskies basketball game. It was the Huskies from the University of Washington against the USC University from Los Angeles. There was a crazy atmosphere with about 9 000 supporters. While each action of Huskies, the crowd stood up and cried after the basket. It was really haughtiness and, furthermore, the game level is bigger than the French championship! Otherwise, the game was squeezed and finally, the huskies have lost the game 60-62: two smalls points that make the difference! The supporters thanked 3 players including Overton who arrived to their last game because they are seniors and they may be drafted by the NBA.
Thanks to you because that happens once in a life and, consequently, I bought the shirt of number eleven!
Thank you for the show and GO PURPLE, BE GOLD!!
samedi 5 mars 2011
Friday 4th March
Porte montrant la séparation entre le quartier chinois et japonais.
Le magnifique stade ouvert dédié au football américain et au soccer. Les supporters sont les plus bruyants de toute la NFL (Ligue de Football Américain).
Inauguré en 2002, sa capacité est de 67 000 sièges fixes en configuration football américain, mais elle peut être augmentée à 72 000. Ici, une partie du stade est fermée car la saison du soccer va commencer et attire moins de personnes (environ 30000 abonnés, soit le plus grand nombre de spectateurs dans la ligue américaine, de quoi faire rêver certains clubs français...)
Le stade possède 7 000 sièges de club et 100 suites de luxe comme celle-ci.
Le groupe a même pu fouler la pelouse synthétique.
jeudi 3 mars 2011
Hugo
débouchons sur une place très surélevée qui offre gracieusement une vue incomparable sur tout Seattle. D’ici, le downtown est resplendissant. On peut contempler toute l’organisation de la ville. C’est presque magique.
Puis vient le temps de redescendre. Un bref déjeuner, dont la frugalité ne sera pas évoqué, et nous repartons.
EMP est juste à côté. De haut, ce bâtiment ressemble à une guitare cassée mais vue du sol, c’est juste très moderne. L’interieur est magique, il y a que des reliques de stars… du rock. Et oui, il ne faut pas le cacher mais l'Experience Music Project affectionne surtout le style de ses stars locales à savoir Nirvana et Jimi Hendrix. Mais c’est tout de même passionnant. Dans une grande salle, on peut jouer d’un instrument : guitare, batterie, basse, piano… Et aussi en jouer à plusieurs! Une autre grande innovation de ce muée est une simulation de concert où on peut incarner un musicien sur scène. Très bien fait, tout est filmée et visionnable. Le musée de science fiction dans EMP n’est pas un mythe mais c’est vraiment très petit. C’est surtout un musée sur la série Battleship Galactica.
Bref, la partie suivante est différente : Adrien et moi seulement allons assister à un match de basket des Panthers, l’equipe officielle de Seattle Prep. Nous partons avec un car de l’ecole et quelques autres élèves supporters. Apres une petite heure de trajet, nous arrivons à l'Arena Tacoma, près de l’aéroport de Seattle. La salle est très grande puisque 2 matchs s’y jouent en même temps. En fait, ils enchainent les matchs du même niveau sur une seule journée donc cela tourne très vite. Le jeu est très agréable et on voit tout de suite l’entrainement et la passion qu’ils portent à ce jeu et à cette balle orange. Malheureusement, les Panthers échouent par 42 contre 65, très tôt menés ils n’ont pas pu rattraper. Mais tout ceci n’est pas grave puisque j’ai vu du beau jeu pour ce niveau, et puis il faut dire que le pop corn était bon.
Allez, je laisse la parole a un autre camarade.
Bon week-end
Claudio
Today, we went to Space Needle and EMP (Experience Music Project)
It was a good day, a good idea by the teachers to make us visit these places, especially the EMP (even if the Space Needle was interesting). When we went in the EMP, we were so impressed by the huge column in the hall, composed by more than one hundred guitars! Then we walked away and we have seen a guitar which belonged to Jimi Hendrix, in fact it was a broken guitar that he has broken during a concert. Afterwards, we came into a room where we played each other the instrument of our choice (guitar, drums or keyboard)… And of course a singer. We were recorded playing, singing, dancing, enjoying, etc, in front of a real virtual public. At the end of the “show”, we had the possibility to buy our “music”, DVD, or a poster of us. When we came back to school, the rain joins us on the road.
After having left our friends, Guillaume and I were taken by the Blaines (Guillaume’s host father) to the Museum of Flight. It was very interesting and we saw a lot of planes hanged to the ceiling.
Space Needle & EMP
Monorail, direction Space Needle
Les élèves à 158m de haut!
Space Needle, Monorail et EMP
Ombeline
This family is really lovely, they welcome me very very well, I'm very happy but I'm sad to leave.
mercredi 2 mars 2011
Adrien
Nous y avons aussi vu des oiseaux marins plongeant sous l'eau pour se nourrir, enfin nous avons observés et touchés des étoiles de mer et des ané mones. Hugo et moi avons beaucoup aimé la visite. L'aquarium est vraiment très grand.
Matinée studieuse
Voici 2 photos prises il y a quelques minutes.
On voit nettement que les 'Frenchies' ne sont pas là QUE pour s'amuser! Ils jouent consciencieusement leur rôle d'animateurs autour du professeur de Français Madame Judy Davis.
mardi 1 mars 2011
Edgar
This afternoon, we had maths, the teacher is really funny. He spent ten minutes in the beginning of the class to tell to the students how this hour would be wonderful...Today was a trial day, It means that students were taking sport exams then they go to a team according to their level.The main objective is to get varsity team,the best team.So we waited for our hosts and visiting the Prep for the rest of the day.
School Day
Semaine de la solidarité avec le conflit israelo-palestinien
Exposition organisée par les élèves et le professeur d'Arts Plastiques
La salle de répétition des groupes (Band Room). Ambiance très 'relax'