Bonjour,
So after taking advice from my mom and brother I have decided to start writing posts on word documents at our apartment so I don’t have to spend so much time at McDonalds. Now all I have to do is copy, paste, post and then I am set!
Picking up where we left off…bugs! Not only were we attacked by bugs at the restaurant but it seems like we are being attacked by bugs everywhere. All of us have been getting really strange looking bites. We came to a conclusion that the culprits were bed bugs but after our experience at Le Nautique, we have our doubts. Who knew Nice was infested with so many bugs!
On Thursday afternoon after school, we traveled to a little town outside of Nice called Eze. It is absolutely beautiful! The first thing we did when we got there was go to Fragonard, a famous French perfume company and factory. We took a tour of the factory and got to see how all their perfumes, soaps and cosmetics were made. We were all pretty captivated by the process and of course the smells caught our attention too! After the tour, we got to visit the gift shop. Every single one of us bought at least one thing in that store! Next, we walked up to the historic Eze which is a medieval, fortified town that sits atop a big hill overlooking the ocean. Everything in the town was so tiny because it was built so long ago and people where so much smaller. After walking around there for about an hour or two, we headed back to Nice and ate dinner at a little café in a square near our houses.
Yesterday (Friday), we visited a Russian Orthodox Church. This church is very unique because it is one of the only Russian churches outside of Russia. We had to walk a very long way to get there but when we arrived, it was stunning and it was so different from anything we have seen in Nice. After seeing how beautiful it was on the outside, we were a little under whelmed when we entered the church. Although it was beautifully painted and decorated, the interior is shockingly small. It was not like a normal church because in the Russian Orthodox tradition, the majority of the congregation stands so there was very little seating and the pulpit took up the majority of the interior. We were a little disappointed that we had to walk such a long way to spend so little time in the church but then again how many high school students can say that they got to visit the Eglise Russe in Nice, France. After visiting the church, we freshened up with some popsicles and headed of on another long walk to a restaurant that doubles as a bowling alley. We had a great pizza dinner even though we were served enough food to feed an army. Their individual pizzas were about the size of a medium pizza at Papa John’s or Dominoes! Bowling was SO much fun. Most of us hadn’t bowled in at least a year so we were pretty bad…except for Mr. Newman. Although he claimed not to have bowled for eight years, he blew us all out of the water. He probably won by more than fifty points. The best part of bowling was the music! There was an awesome digital jukebox that we pretty much took over! We all had an awesome time dancing to middle school era American pop music. I think we felt almost as if we were back home in that bowling alley!
Today, we finally got to sleep in and spend some relaxing time at the beach. No school until Monday, yes! It’s funny that we all volunteered to go to school in the summer time but it has been worth it. I feel like I am able to recognize and speak French more than I ever have.
Check back soon for a recount of our trip to Cannes. We are going tomorrow so I hope to have a post up on Monday.
Untill next time,
Jordan
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