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Adventures of a Year Abroad


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We Are Still Learning……..

This morning my dad woke me up and told me that we were going to watch a movie featuring one of our favorite actors, Chris Pratt. During immersion class, I could barely take my mind off it. Then when we got home, we were all waiting for the time to come so we could go to the cinema and watch the movie. When we finally got there, the ticket lady said they didn’t have the movie playing. We thought that was weird, but there were still to more Cinemas on the same block, so we thought we might have went to the wrong one. We walked over to the next cinema, only to find out that they had the same problem. Slightly annoyed, we ran to the third and final cinema in the area. Unfortunately, our hopes were dropped yet again and the movie wasn’t there either. So, even after three weeks of emersion, we cannot get to a simple movie. Well, we are still learning.


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Fountain Pens

      For school we have to get fountain pens. I just got one, and my mom told me to research them.

 Pen For Post                                                                                                     -Fountain Pens were the first non-dipping pen

-The first practical fountain pen was made in 1884

-The first fountain pen cartridges used medicine droppers

-They look cool and that kid called kiddoinparis has one

 

 

 


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Chess – French Style

 

     Chess_-_strategic_board_game_for_two_playersAs some of you may know, I am into chess. But there definitely is a difference between playing chess here and playing chess back at home. The one that I am bringing up is the name difference. If you didn’t know, chess is based off of a battle of two kingdoms. And the bishop’s name, in France, is the Fou (Pronounced Foo). That literally translates to crazy, insane, or even demented. But who wants someone insane and demented person in their own castle!


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The Ultimate Playdate

           Yesterday I made a post that mentioned a playdate at the Louvre. Now I will bring that into full detail. It started as soon as everybody walked through the rotating doors to get inside the Louvre. We went down a few escalators and got to the first floor. When we reached it, Me, my friend Mickey, and his Mom went to get some audioguides. One we had received them, we selected a tour on our audioguides, that were 3DS XLs, (Click Here For Info) and marched off. We ran around for a while in the massive museum, and got to see many cool things, Including the Mona Lisa:

MonaLisa

            Since we were all pretty tired after that, we walked to a cafe-like place so that we could get some refreshments. When we were done with the Louvre, we reunited with my mom to go to the nearest park. Once we arrived, Me and Mickey went to go on some carnival rides. Well I should say a carnival ride because we went one the same awesome one three times in a row. Then we came back and played on the playground. We were finally so pooped out we could  barely walk, and we returned to our places after a big day of fun.