Since I am not renewing my teaching contract this year, and since we are moving to the South of France in June, I’ve been spending the last six months or so really focusing on what to do about my professional life. I see this as a real opportunity to do something different and exciting, keeping […]
Fast forward 14 days…… …and we’re back in Paris after taking a trip around France! When we first got back to Paris, we were arriving by coach from Normandy. We arrived at our hotel in mid-afternoon, ready to hit the town. Everyone was especially excited because the date was June 21. You know what that […]
After dinner we headed up to Montmartre http://www.aparisguide.com/montmartre/index.html, which is quite close by foot. We had watched Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/ in class before our departure, so they thought it was fun to see Le Café des Deux Moulins, the café where Amélie works in the movie. Just after having a look (from the outside) […]
The next morning, day 3, we allowed ourselves to sleep in a bit. We didn’t really get our day started until about 10:00. Everybody was happily rested, and that’s always a good way to start the day. At this point, all of the guys were simply delighted at the idea of eating croissants, pain au […]
We woke up early on day 2 in Paris, and made our way to the Gare Montparnasse http://parisbytrain.com/gare-montparnasse-photo-tour/. We boarded a train to Chartres, and less than an hour later we were greeted by my French teacher friends, Christine and Odile. They gave us a little tour of the town, including a history lesson about and […]
After lunch, we started a walking tour of Paris. Since we were already in the 2ème, our guide offered to have us stop by his house right around the corner. He has the obvious good fortune of owning his own house, right in the very center of Paris. From the street, you open the oversized, […]
Upon our arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, we didn’t waste any time at all. We went directly into the city, dropped off our luggage at the hotel, and went into town on the Métro. http://www.ratp.fr/plan-interactif/ I had already given my students a lesson on how the Paris Métro works, so even if […]
My experience leading student tours to Europe One month prior to departure with my students (about twenty of them this year), I’m beginning to think about everything that goes into putting together a student trip to Europe. The 2012 trip will be the fourteenth tour that I’ve organized, and the twelfth I’ve led. Thinking of […]
