Day 6 - Crêpe party, zoo and salsa dancing

 Bonjour!

 Today we had lessons in the morning, and in my group we focused on technology. We discussed, in French, online shopping, mobile phones, and whether the Internet will one day completely replace the written press (I personally hope it won't! I love newspapers and magazines!)

 I love lessons at the language school, and I feel that my French is really improving.

 After lessons had finished we went outside and sat in the sun for a bit:

 Then we went back into the École Klesse for our crêpe party.

 We were taught how to make the crêpes and then we worked together to make ourselves a crêpe feast. I had mine with sugar and Nutella. C'était fantastique.

 Here are some photos courtesy of Flo:

 After the crêpe party, we were free for the afternoon, and a group of us decided to go to the zoo. Charlotte and I went there together, having both been to the Internet café first. We had a great adventure on the trams, and we discovered the Parc Sainte Odile:

 We reached the zoo, and met up with the others. We had a really great time at the zoo. It was a good zoo, with a wide variety of animals, and they had a lot more room to move and to live than animals in most zoos I have been to. Charlotte and I went around the zoo together, and we had a lovely afternoon.

 Here are a couple of Zoe's photos from the zoo:

 After the visit to the zoo, everyone went back to where they were staying to have tea.

 In the evening we met up in the middle of the city to go to Cubanito Cafe, a Cuban bar. It was really lovely; we got the bottom part of the bar, with tables and seats, to ourselves, and we had a Cuban-style buffet provided for us! We ordered alcohol-free cocktails; mine was a combination of citrus juices with mint; it was really nice and refreshing.

 Here are Emily and Zoe enjoying the bar:

 We then had a salsa dancing lesson! I am a big fan of Strictly Come Dancing and have been wishing I could start ballroom and Latin dance classes for a long time, so this was a dream come true for me!

 Emily S was my partner, and we had a great time learning the salsa routine. It was tricky, though, and everyone got a bit tangled up at first! But it was such a wonderful feeling whenever we mastered part of the routine. Here is Zoe's picture of Hallam and Reece:

 We then sat back down and took part in a music quiz. By this point the bar was filling up, so we had a lot of competition! The music was generally French, and my team knew a few of the songs, and guessed a few more, but for the ones we didn't know at all we just wrote down Friends quotes: "A transpondster? That's not even a word!"

 After the music quiz some of the group left to go to another bar or club, and the rest of us stayed at Cubanitos and did another music quiz, this time about music from films. We guessed quite a few of these tunes! Except for one which drove us all mad because we knew we'd heard it but just couldn't place it! It turned out to be the theme to Hawaii Five-0. De de de de de de, de de de de de...

 It was a lovely relaxed atmosphere, and the music was really good. J'aime Cubanitos!

 It was an amazing night out after a lovely day.

 J'adore Montpellier! I so want to live here.

 Merci de lire

 Liz x

Back Home!

 Bonjour!

 Thanks for posting, Zoe! You have some great photos.

 Well that was an amazing trip to France; I truly had the time of my life.

 Highlights include:

- Gorgeous Carcassonne

- Salsa dancing!

- Music quiz after the salsa dancing, where my team gave up pretty quickly and just wrote Friends quotes for all the answers that we didn't know. But we guessed a few of the songs!

- Cette année-là! Déjà...aaaaaaaah...

- Aux Champs-Élysées

- LAZERQUEST! Go Team Bale!

- "C'est mignon, non?"

- Going to the cinema

- The amazing toyshop that seems to go on forever

- The brilliant climate

- The fantastic cuisine

- The treasure hunt

- Lessons at l'École Klesse; they were sometimes challenging but always really enjoyable and I feel that I have learnt a lot

- Staying with a lovely French lady who has been very kind to us and who has helped us hugely with our French

- Flo and Odile's April Fool (telling us our exams had been put forward) which I actually fell for!

- When I visited the zoo with Charlotte; we had a great time and saw some gorgeous bears

- The aquarium and naming fish and sharks!

- My Parisienne sandwich, with salade, cheese, boiled eggs and ham, which was wonderful

- The beautiful stars, which are so clear in Montpellier considering that it is a big city with many lights

- The amazing trams. I got to ride on the blue one quite a few times!

 And there are many more great memories besides!

 So to everyone who went on the trip or helped to organize it, I want to say a huge thank you because I have truly had the time of my life.

 Merci Beaucoup!

 Liz x

Jeudi

 Bonjour!

 C'est Liz.

 Yesterday was fantastique, we had a crêpe party at the language school where we all made crêpes; I had mine with sugar and Nutella; c'était chouette!

 We went salsa dancing in the evening! I loved it and would love to keep dancing in the future.

 Also a French music quiz; we guessed a few of the songs! Like Aux Champs-Élysées which we all love!

 Au revoir

 Liz x