Life in France has been wonderful lately! It makes me so sad that I am leaving less than three weeks. I truly can’t believe it.

Before jetting off to Italy for the vacances I had some memorable moments here in Nantes!
Friday, April 1st, “April Fool’s Day” in America is “poisson d’avril” in France. In this holiday, celebrated by French schoolchildren, the students make small paper fish that they stick on their teacher’s and each other’s backs. I had my teaching internship with one of the younger, rowdier bunches and I certainly left with fish on my back. My favorites were one carefully decorated by one girl, Madeline, who thinks I am her long lost older sister because we closely resemble one another. Her fish (top) says: “Tu sens le poisson!” (You smell of fish!”) The one on the bottom has a message written on the back: “Ce n’est pas une blague. Tu es tres belle et tu es tres gentille je t’aime.” (It’s not a joke. You’re very pretty and nice I love you.)

Merci les filles!

That weekend I visited Angers, another city in France with two of my friends. I missed a museum field trip when I went to Strasbourg so I had to make up the visit and luckily Hannah and Fernanda were willing to join me. It was quite fast on the TGV, only 40 minutes. The museum was lovely and it was nice to see another nearby city.

Having some fun in the Musée des beaux arts d'Angers

When I got home from the museum on Saturday afternoon, my host family decided that they wanted to go to their beach house in Piriac for the night into Sunday. I joined them and it was lovely! We went out to dinner on the way which was really fun. On Sunday my host dad and Louis showed me around Piriac-sur-mer, a small, typical Bretagne beach village. It is very old-fashioned and charming!

petit Louis!

Loving life in Nantes and can’t believe I have to leave so soon.