It has come to my attention that I've made some spelling and grammar mistakes in previous blog posts. I morpise that this lliw ont neapph again. eseht golb stsop era nettirw ta thgindim dna M'i netfo yrev derit.
In case you are wondering, that is not a Gallic language one might find in Brittany, France. It is just has the letters mixed up. A couple of kids told me that they noticed some mistakes, lol, and I thought I'd play on that quickly. In all honesty, I like the fact that they've noticed. I write these late at night and try to catch my mistakes, but I know I miss things.
Today, we headed out to Mont St. Michel. It is an island. It is also an old Abbey. It is on a huge hill on the island. It used to be a prison. It was wicked cool. (Btw, I still am having issues with posting pictures here)
The weather has been phenomenal. It is warm with a slight wind. At Mont St. Michel, we walked to the old Abbey and took a self-guided tour. We then had an opportunity to walk around the many shops located on the island that is inhabited by only 50 people. I overheard one kid say it was magical. I toured the facility with Meghan, Courtney, and Caroline (erroneously referred to as Erica in a previous post, lol). We thought about how cool it would be to hold the Saugus High School Senior Prom in the Knights Hall in the Abbey. A couple of us chaperons stopped for cafe and crepes on the way down. It was my first crepe on this trip, and it was delicious. I know that Jenna and Mr. Buss found one of the narrowist staircases I've ever seen. They were a little lost in the many entrances and exits located within the place and popped out on the main street.
We made our way off of the island and headed towards St. Malo. St. Malo is located in the French province of Brittany. We have a Brittany with us, so many of us made jokes about this being her island. Brittany is a great kid and her little province was wonderful as well. She allowed us to enter St. Malo, a medieval walled city on the coast. It was really neat. We had lunch there and then had a guided tour with Coco. She was wonderful. She informed us that the people of St. Malo do not really consider themselves to be French citizens. Their city flag flies higher than the flag of France. They are also holding on to their old Gallic heritage. They have their own language and they have immense pride. Their city is a port city and it dominates their lives. At a very young age, their young men begin learning how to sail. As they get older, they begin to sail on a more independent basis. It was really a cool story and I wondered how that would work in a place like Saugus...if we made all of the kids work on a lobster boat before they started high school. Coco told us a lot of other great stories about their city's past.
We began our journey back to our little bed and breakfast. For dinner, they served barbecue chicken with green beans and rice. It was really good. They also served us apple pie. Apple Pie. These people really know us, lol. Everyone I spoke to said they loved it. Some of the kids continued expanding their friendship with our hosts and even had an impromptu language lesson. It was really endearing to hear our young French friend saying, in English, that she likes all of our kids...she is a jokester, by the way, and told us all that she does not like me, lol. (I hope she was joking)
Tomorrow, we have a long day ahead of us and so we decided to relax before our long road trip. Our adventure takes us to Paris tomorrow and we will be seeing some amazing things. I am thinking that tomorrow's blog will be much longer and hopefully, in a more modern hotel, I will be able to post some great pictures too.
Mr. Lavoie, currently thinking about my past trips to Paris and seeing the city at night. It is a very surreal experience about to become real for 41 kids from Saugus.
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