Apart'Hotel Citadines Lille Centre

... the morning and finding a seat is a tough job, but I think I've learnt how to push my way through the crowd! I often end up sitting next to the really smelly person though or the drunk guy or in the same carriage as a beggar and his son. To get to work I have to go 24 stations, which takes half an hour or so, and gives me a good chance to do a fair bit of people watching!<br>It's fairly easy to spot the British people on the metro, they're the people that sit there staring at ...

... The museum is, of course, in a old swimming pool, and sculptures decorate the sides of the basin which is still in tact, the shower cubicles and changing rooms hold other works such as textiles and painting, and the rest of the building is dedicated to incredible art. Every so often sounds of children enjoying a swimming pool are played, which is actually a bit creepy! I enjoyed it much more than the Musée des Beaux Artes in Lille.<br><br>One ...

... important language for them to have, as most of them don't ever plan on going to an English speaking country, and so their level of English is really not very good. They really do try, which I see and I appreciate it, but it can be really difficult when trying to get my point across. During the observation period the only contact I had with students was the asking and answering of questions, which was quite simple and easy for them and gave me a ...

... and go to school. There was a nice little Canal down the middle of the town and very cute shops and restaurants for all. We then piled back on the bus one more time and headed for the WWI memorial Museum in.... I dont remember. It was equally as awesome and housed some great war paraphernalia. <br><br>All in all, this was a great trip. Very exhausting, we were always on the go, but very helpful to understanding every aspect of architecture.Stay tuned for Amsterdam!!!<br>

... more at home. We spent the Friday evening unpacking, moving furniture and making the place more homely and by the time we went to bed we were much happier about our new home!<br>That evening we also met some other English language assistants who are staying in the same "Résidence" and discovered that there are actually quite a lot of us!<br>The following day we took a trip to the closest Carrefour supermarket, which is just across the road in Euralille, a huge shopping centre which we ...

... also met with an advanced group which was all girls, none of whom were shy at all and they seemed quite nice, however I won't be working with them very often, if at all!<br>This afternoon we went into Lille to explore, and ate in a nice restaurant / café where the waitress helped us out with our French and we were very proud of ourselves when we managed to communicate in French with people in every shop we went into! We can both feel the difference in the quality of our ...

Before heading back to Ann's house, we decided to make a pit-stop in Ieper (Ypres) on our way back to Herentals. We were told there was a famous museum called "In Flanders Field Museum".<br><br>The museum was not big at all, but it was interactive which made it interesting. They had the famous Canadian poem "In Flanders Fields" projecting on the wall. We think it was a copy of the original ...

... a chocolate croissant, and a granola bar on the go, we arrived at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. It&#8217;s a classical museum that recently had an extremely successful addition. My camera had already died at this point (lesson learned: charge battery EVERY night), so I&#8217;ll try to steal pictures from someone else soon. The addition is notable because its façade is a glass wall filled with little metallic strips that reflect the classical face of the ...

... crowd at Cédric and Laetitia's wedding, spending the new year with them again, sharing an incredible number of lunch and dinners with all of them, enjoying the company of the funky family (30 close relatives, all as weird one as the other), discovering a heap of new babies (Maxence, Morgane, Gwenael and discovering that Joel's cousins were following the same trend) - Another ...

... he asking about my trip, me asking him about his work (he's retired, so that part of the conversation was brief). I've taken to describing the trip as London to Prague- it elicits much the same level of whistling and eyebrow raising, but seems to have more credibility than England to Australia. Don't know why. Apart from this, there was a three way exchange between me, Maxine and his friend Greg about the merits of the beer that they had just bought me- "oui, c'est bon! C ...