Citea Lille

... else trying to find out if they're British as well (hey, that's me!), and look quite defensive when somebody else sits next to them (hey, that's me as well!). They then get out an English book and try to look very superior because they speak another language. (I do that sometimes.)<br>A lot of French people, particularly early in the morning, sit down and close their eyes and somehow magically wake up when it's their stop and run off the train. I don't know how they can do that ...

... that I have been dying to do in Lille is to climb to the top of the Belfry in the Hotel de Ville and see the view of the city. I have made two attempts to do this now, both at times when it was closed! <br><br>I took my parents to a market on the first day they were here, which was a lovely little French Sunday market in the old part of town, it was much nicer than the big "famous" market in Wazemmes, which is slightly out of the centre. I went ...

... to get to know them, and vice versa. However it didn't really give me much of a sense of their level of French, but more about that later.<br><br>Last week we were sent on a training day for all of the English speaking assistants in the "academie de Lille" (basically the LEA), which Annabelle had pre-warned me would most likely be useless, however we actually found it of some benefit! We were taught about discipline and teaching methods and ...

Hello all, <br>sorry it has been such a long time, but the pace has really picked up around here. This trip was from a long time ago, about two weeks now. I will briefly cover it because it was such a great experience. <br><br>Our school takes us on one field trip each semester. This first field trip we went on went to Couzy, Laon, Lille, and Amiens. All are in Northern France. All 41 students went along with three of our professors, history, design and structures. We ...

... still yet to fully explore! And we spent the rest of the day back in Ikea and exploring our new surroundings.<br>That evening we explored a little bit of Lille's nightlife and enjoyed a few cocktails just me and Erin and had a night-time walk through Vieux Lille (which was fun until it started raining)!<br>We spent our first Sunday on a culture trip in the "Muséé des Beaux Arts" which is free on the first Sunday of every month and was a fantastic experience, after which we got a crepe ...

... every day!<br>My timetable is quite good: I will be working twelve hours a week: on Monday, Thursday and Friday, and Erin has asked for the same days off as me which will give us plenty of time for travelling and hopefully if we want to go somewhere particularly far away we will both be able to get a Monday off so that we can have 5 days away. We have already planned to visit Nice, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and a teacher at my school has invited us to her house in ...

... written poem. They had it translated in various languages. We found out the story behind the poem while there as well, since like myself, i only knew bits and pieces of it. The story goes that in the second week of fighting during the Second<br> Battle of Ypres a Canadian artillery officer, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was killed<br> on 2 May, 1915 by a German artillery shell. He was a ...

... across a courtyard. As you could probably guess, we sketched a lot there as well, while trying to avoid the massive school group of French teenagers. I noticed that their field trips are similar to ones in the US in at least one way: they too have to work on random worksheets while at museums. We&#8217;re blasting apart cultural differences here with some of my observations, I know.<br><br>After spending time at the Museum, we took a quick walking tour of Lille with ...

... jump to Brussels to see Boris and Anne-Sophie, Jean and Clementine, and Louison, Julie and Aurelien - A few days in Bordeaux in Souley and Severine's retreat, trying to survive Noam's over energetic play and, to conclude, discovering Flo and Pippa's little Zoe in the company of Pippa's family ... and not talking of the 7 kilos Joel put on in 3 weeeks to celebrate all these reunions

... moins sucre que l'autre, n'est-ce pas?" Perhaps not the stuff of legend, but a great leap forward from "ou est la gare?". Returning to le camping to find all my belongings present and unmolested, Thurs 24th August 2006 was officially concluded a Good Day. On Friday I had bold plans for Lille. Having got my bearings yesterday, and arranged the necessary injections, I had swathes of free time in which to buy the things I'd been missing since leaving and check out the sights ...