Photos WITH Britt!

Okay...so I had this all done already this morning, and then when I checked it, pressed the wrong button and deleted it! I hope I remember what I'd written -- it was pretty good! :>)

The photos may be in reverse time order (don't want to sound all academic here and use the word "chronological"!) -- the one with the statue actually came on Thursday. Not sure who the statue is, but it's a cute picture, right? The one with the castle (chateau!) came yesterday -- the group of students were taken on a tour of castles in the Besancon area. I asked Britt if that one has a name, but haven't heard back yet.

So, she's got two more weeks with this host family and city, then Paris from 21-24 Sept. (see how European I'm being...that's how they do dates there, and I remember it, because now that I'm back in school, we do that in my French classes!). Anyhow...she's at something known as a CLA --"Centre Linguistique Appliquee" (Center for Applied Linguistics) a university setting, with lots of language equipment, in a seminar called "Language, Education and Culture Seminar". They meet from 8:30 a.m. through various ending times ranging from 3:30 to 5:30...so there are some pretty long days. (http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/) The link/website is in French, but there ARE some pretty pictures for those not able to read the info! The bottom right corner has a link to info about the city of Besancon...Add to that long day the fact that they're immersed in French language (not using English at all, probably!) for that length of time -- it's pretty overwhelming, I'm sure! She'll be doing some similar program once in Paris, and then it's off to Brest for the remainder of the time (except for optional traveling, which I hope she does!). Once in Brest, she'll probably be able to use a lot of English, as the school (we think) is an English-immersion school for French high school students, and she'll be teaching in English. So, you are wonderin (and so is Britt!) WHY the brain-busting French immersion? Because that's part of the program. Uh-huh.

Well, hope you all have had a nice holiday weekend with an extra day to do what you needed or wanted to do...I'll post again when I have new information...or photos...thanks for following along! (I'm NOT going to spell check this, just so I don't lose it again...I'm on holiday and don't want to think too much :>)