During our first few weeks back at school, students shared their French experiences from this summer. A lot of students ate French food at home and at local French restaurants and bakeries : croisssants, baguettes, pain au chocolat, croque monsieur, frites, omelettes, ... An 8th Age boy told us that he saw Monet's painting "Japanese Bridge" in his hotel room while on vacation. Quite a few students heard French-speaking people here in Baltimore as well as in Washington D.C., Florida, California, Pennsylvania, and Maine - at the pool, on a boat, at the beach, at a restaurant, and in a museum. Some of our Calvert families traveled to Montreal and Quebec this summer and were able to speak French at restaurants, hotels, and other places that they visited. In addition, many Calvert families went to France this summer - climbed the Eiffel Tower, went to the Louvre, saw Notre Dame, ate in restaurants and cafés, spent time in the Louvre went to the Palace of Versailles, visited Monet's garden in Giverny, - all speaking some French along the way.
What a fantastique, full-of-French summer!!
