La Chartreuse Du Val Saint Es Gosnay

... démontés et empaquetés dans des cartons, une remorque, un réchaud et une popotte, des vêtements pour tous les temps, des éléments de rechange pour le vélo, une trousse à pharmacie et une brosse à dent :)

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On vous embrasse tous très très fort.
Vous allez nous manquer quoique....!
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Hasta luego amigos.

Joséphine

... in Paris. I really had so much luck with the weather and the city itself was beautiful. The last few days I visited Montmartre, the picturesque artsy part of town on a hill, where I visited the gorgeous Church of Sacree Coeur, as well as the cafe where one of my favorite movies, Amelie, was filmed. I took lots of pictures and arrived there as I listened to it's amazing soundtrack.

I also ...

... huge damage during the war and required significant reconstruction. Some parts of the original buildings still stand, and show shrapnel damage, and some of the statues in the church walls are badly damaged.

Next stop after Ypres was at the Hooge Crater Cemetary. This cemetary contains the graves of nearly 6000 soldiers, many of whom were younger than I am, and a lot were only engraved with 'A British/Australian/New ...

... br>Yesterday on my way to work, I was sat next to a couple of respectable looking people until they got off and were replaced by an old wrinkly smelly man on one side and an old smelly woman on the other side. The woman smelt like very very very old cheese, and had a carrier bag that she kept looking into and feeling inside it for something but she never once brought out whatever it was so I never got to find out... perhaps it was the very very very old cheese.

Other ...

... just outside of Ypres. It seems that every direction you drive in you find military cemeteries of the various regiments who fought and lost soldiers here. There were Irish, British, Canadian and even a few German cemeteries, and all were uniform in there perfectly lined up white gravestones with various memorials surrounding them. Each town in this area had their own memorials commemorating the local soldiers who fell in combat ...

... and lovely and many people seem to use it as a place to go running, so I will be sure to go back with my trainers on!

When my parents had left there were only 3 other British girls left in my residence, so the following day we went to the cinema to see "Mademoiselle Chambon", a typical French love story with very little dialect (which made it easier to understand), and an unhappy ending. I enjoyed it!

This week I have also been to ...

... 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.

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 ...

... at various buildings. All were very interesting and each professor incorporated their own concepts/ideas with each building. This became a more integrated approach to us learning our architecture. The next day we traveled to Amiens, to look at another Notre Dame Cathedral. A little different then the last, but still very impressive. Amiens was a nice little town, it houses a main university in France so it was awesome to get to see how other students in Europe ...

... still yet to fully explore! And we spent the rest of the day back in Ikea and exploring our new surroundings.
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)!
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 ...

... addicted to that ****, but then again, she has Flemish blood. Croques were ordered and eaten, then we just sat in the sun for a couple of hours, soaking it up. I could have stayed there all day, it was so good Hill 60 We came here as there was an Australian memorial. It's set up on a hill, and all around are pock marks in the ground from the battles that were fought here. The remains of bunkers are littered amongst the trees. I had never been here before ...