by Laura and Mariettou
Hôtel de Ville de Rouen It's an administrative building which was a dormitory for monks in the 19th century.
Square Verdrel A nice little public garden where young people like resting. It is opposite the Musée des Beaux Arts de Rouen. There is a fountain and a beautiful swan.
Les Quais de Rouen A place where teenagers like getting together and strolling, where we can see the Seine and where many events take place (the famous fair "St Romain", circuses, ...)
mardi 7 octobre 2008
mardi 30 septembre 2008
A message from the 1e LB
by Charlotte and Olivia
Welcome to our high school, Jeanne d’Arc!
Here everybody is waiting for you! We look forward to showing you our city, Rouen, and our high school.
First, we’ll tell you about our class. We are thrty-two, more precisely twenty-nine girls and three boys. We study a subject called “history of arts’ which deals with every form of art: painting, photography, music, cinema, drawing,… Other people study Italian instead. Our class is cool, relaxed and joyful. To sum up, it’s a very smashing class!
Our high school is situated in a city called Rouen. It is called “Jeanne d’Arc” because this is the place where Jeanne d’Arc was killed. This high school is an old one but there have been building works for many years and now it’s really beautiful and modern. There are 1800 students so it’s huge! A very good atmosphere prevails: there are many different people and Jeanne d’Arc is viewed by everybody as an “artistic high school” where a lot of people practise drawing, photography or painting. See you soon!
Welcome to our high school, Jeanne d’Arc!
Here everybody is waiting for you! We look forward to showing you our city, Rouen, and our high school.
First, we’ll tell you about our class. We are thrty-two, more precisely twenty-nine girls and three boys. We study a subject called “history of arts’ which deals with every form of art: painting, photography, music, cinema, drawing,… Other people study Italian instead. Our class is cool, relaxed and joyful. To sum up, it’s a very smashing class!
Our high school is situated in a city called Rouen. It is called “Jeanne d’Arc” because this is the place where Jeanne d’Arc was killed. This high school is an old one but there have been building works for many years and now it’s really beautiful and modern. There are 1800 students so it’s huge! A very good atmosphere prevails: there are many different people and Jeanne d’Arc is viewed by everybody as an “artistic high school” where a lot of people practise drawing, photography or painting. See you soon!
mardi 22 janvier 2008
A message from the 1e LC
Welcome to Rouen!
We’re 34 in our class, including 3 boys…So we aren’t quite as short in mixity as you are. :-)
Our school is specific by the large choice of options it provides, especially artistic ones. In our literary section, half of us study art and drawing and the other half learns Chinese. Apart from these major options, we also have the normal choices such as English of course, German, Spanish, Latin, Italian, drama…
We are quite a “merry” class and generally, we all get on well together. We enjoy parties, going out to cafés for example…
Rouen is a very active town in the middle of the countryside: cows everywhere and rain, the typical points in Normandy. We hope you’ll enjoy our cider and typical cheese as well. :-)
The sea is 50 km away, at Dieppe. At this time of year it’s extremely windy on the coast. But the beach, sadly, isn’t like the south ones, it’s only pebbles. The only nice things are the chalk cliffs.
There are sales at the moment so bring loads of money!
Our school’s name is Jeanne d’Arc who is the heroin of a French history fact: in the Middle Ages, guided by the voice of God, a young peasant girl cut her hair off and took the control of the French army to push the British out of France. She succeeded in freeing Orleans but not Paris. She was captured and burnt alive in Rouen… Or so did history tell, till recently: Jeanne d’Arc was actually a spy, and it was a hooded man who was burnt on “La Place du Vieux Marché”.
(We don’t really care about these facts but it’s for your general knowledge.) :-)
There is a “Jeanne d’Arc business” by the way: near the place where she was “supposedly” burnt, they sell “macarons de Jeanne d’Arc”, “larmes de Jeanne d’Arc”…
In our class you’ll notice Baptiste’s legendary sense of humour, Channel’s passion for Japan, Flore the aristocrat, Jessica “l’anglaise”, Mélissa who is “toujours en retard” and always smiling and Adrienne who is always dreaming…. You’ll discover the others by yourselves.
You’ll notice a very big clothing mixity in our school, because people often come from very different places and they study a large variety of subjects: some are artistic, some are more interested in new technologies. You’ll see many styles such as “fashion victims”, “tecktonik”, “manga dolls”, “babas cool”, “skaters”, the “Dolce Gabbana kind”, the “Longchamp addicts”, “rainbow clothed people”, the “baggy boys”… You get the picture: an enormous melting pot.
We’re 34 in our class, including 3 boys…So we aren’t quite as short in mixity as you are. :-)
Our school is specific by the large choice of options it provides, especially artistic ones. In our literary section, half of us study art and drawing and the other half learns Chinese. Apart from these major options, we also have the normal choices such as English of course, German, Spanish, Latin, Italian, drama…
We are quite a “merry” class and generally, we all get on well together. We enjoy parties, going out to cafés for example…
Rouen is a very active town in the middle of the countryside: cows everywhere and rain, the typical points in Normandy. We hope you’ll enjoy our cider and typical cheese as well. :-)
The sea is 50 km away, at Dieppe. At this time of year it’s extremely windy on the coast. But the beach, sadly, isn’t like the south ones, it’s only pebbles. The only nice things are the chalk cliffs.
There are sales at the moment so bring loads of money!
Our school’s name is Jeanne d’Arc who is the heroin of a French history fact: in the Middle Ages, guided by the voice of God, a young peasant girl cut her hair off and took the control of the French army to push the British out of France. She succeeded in freeing Orleans but not Paris. She was captured and burnt alive in Rouen… Or so did history tell, till recently: Jeanne d’Arc was actually a spy, and it was a hooded man who was burnt on “La Place du Vieux Marché”.
(We don’t really care about these facts but it’s for your general knowledge.) :-)
There is a “Jeanne d’Arc business” by the way: near the place where she was “supposedly” burnt, they sell “macarons de Jeanne d’Arc”, “larmes de Jeanne d’Arc”…
In our class you’ll notice Baptiste’s legendary sense of humour, Channel’s passion for Japan, Flore the aristocrat, Jessica “l’anglaise”, Mélissa who is “toujours en retard” and always smiling and Adrienne who is always dreaming…. You’ll discover the others by yourselves.
You’ll notice a very big clothing mixity in our school, because people often come from very different places and they study a large variety of subjects: some are artistic, some are more interested in new technologies. You’ll see many styles such as “fashion victims”, “tecktonik”, “manga dolls”, “babas cool”, “skaters”, the “Dolce Gabbana kind”, the “Longchamp addicts”, “rainbow clothed people”, the “baggy boys”… You get the picture: an enormous melting pot.
dimanche 20 janvier 2008
A message from the 1e SA
Hey!
What’s up? We are going to introduce ourselves… We are a scientific class of thirty students but only ten of us are coming to the Netherlands. Sorry girls, there are only eight boys in the class! But don’t worry, we are all welcoming and kind (or not...). And unlike you, we have only eight hours of class per day!
Our class is one of the exceptions of the school since it is mainly a literary and artistic school: indeed there are drama, dance, music, history of arts and arts classes.
Don’t be shocked when you come, the style of clothing is very…strange, we have a lot of Babas-cool… :-)
Now: Rouen! It is known as the city of the hundred bell-towers, it has an old city centre but there are a lot of students. We’re planning to show you around…and, only if you are nice, we’ll show you Rouen by night!
We hope to see you soon…
Bye bye!
Your correspondents :-)
What’s up? We are going to introduce ourselves… We are a scientific class of thirty students but only ten of us are coming to the Netherlands. Sorry girls, there are only eight boys in the class! But don’t worry, we are all welcoming and kind (or not...). And unlike you, we have only eight hours of class per day!
Our class is one of the exceptions of the school since it is mainly a literary and artistic school: indeed there are drama, dance, music, history of arts and arts classes.
Don’t be shocked when you come, the style of clothing is very…strange, we have a lot of Babas-cool… :-)
Now: Rouen! It is known as the city of the hundred bell-towers, it has an old city centre but there are a lot of students. We’re planning to show you around…and, only if you are nice, we’ll show you Rouen by night!
We hope to see you soon…
Bye bye!
Your correspondents :-)
vendredi 31 août 2007
Wided's diary
Monday, April 2nd
After a six-hour coach trip we arrive at Hageveld, our correspondents’ high school. There, our Dutch friends are waiting for us. I am welcomed by Kelly, her mother and other students who make us visit the school. I’m impressed: it’s a very big school with a lot of rooms and a huge yard.
Tuesday, April 3rd
As we arrive in Amsterdam, we start a treasure hunt, and we are divided into teams in order to visit a part of the city on our own. I find it beautiful. Led by two Dutch students, we discover different streets, we see an old cinema, an old church and a little museum. We learn some things about the famous Dutch city.
We are to meet at 1 pm in front of a pub at the end of the treasure hunt. Teachers allow us to do what we want until 4 pm. We eat at Burger King, which is not very typical of Holland but not too expensive for us. We spend a lot of time in a candy shop and find a place to seat near Anne Frank’s House where we have to be at 4 pm.
This museum is not so big; it relates the childhood of the famous young girl. It’s strangely gloomy and I don’t feel very comfortable inside, seeing all those videos showing the war and Anne’s house.
Wednesday, April 4th
Today, I get up earlier in order to ride to school. Five kilometres… In France I would never do it, I’m too lazy! Holland is flat, you don’t have to ride up and down so it’s easier to ride a bike.
In the morning, we attend English lessons at school. In Holland pupils have got a different way of working: lessons usually last only 50 minutes and the school day end at 2 or 3 pm so that they can do a lot of activities after school. The relationship between teachers and pupils is different from the one in France: it’s friendlier. In some lessons we saw pupils who were listening to music or chatting with their friends without being told of by their teacher. In fact, we have the feeling that everyone does what he wants to do. From my point of view it seems to be very cool but for teachers maybe it’s not…
At noon, when lessons are over, we leave the school to go to the beach with friends.
Thursday, April 5th
We drive to La Haye where we go to the Mauritshuis, a museum devoted to the art of the 18th century.
Everyone thought that the painting The Girl with a Pearl Earring would be a very big one and would have a lot of protection around it as a famous painting but in fact it is treated as all the other paintings. Some of us are disappointed but I’m not, I enjoy the painting.
We leave the museum at noon and have to eat quickly. We meet near the coach at 1 pm in order to go to the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia.
Friday, April 6th
Last day. The trip is too short. But all good things come to an end. After saying goodbye to our families and our Dutch friends, we leave Heemstede and its beautiful high school for good. After a while, we come to a little traditional village. There are a lot of tourist shops. We make new friends, goats and ducks!
We have lunch there before getting on the coach at 1 pm to leave Holland. I love travelling by coach so the six-hour journey doesn’t really seem long to me.
It’s 10 pm, there we are, in Rouen, back to normal life. No Dutch friends, no visits, and no more coach trips…
After a six-hour coach trip we arrive at Hageveld, our correspondents’ high school. There, our Dutch friends are waiting for us. I am welcomed by Kelly, her mother and other students who make us visit the school. I’m impressed: it’s a very big school with a lot of rooms and a huge yard.
Tuesday, April 3rd
As we arrive in Amsterdam, we start a treasure hunt, and we are divided into teams in order to visit a part of the city on our own. I find it beautiful. Led by two Dutch students, we discover different streets, we see an old cinema, an old church and a little museum. We learn some things about the famous Dutch city.
We are to meet at 1 pm in front of a pub at the end of the treasure hunt. Teachers allow us to do what we want until 4 pm. We eat at Burger King, which is not very typical of Holland but not too expensive for us. We spend a lot of time in a candy shop and find a place to seat near Anne Frank’s House where we have to be at 4 pm.
This museum is not so big; it relates the childhood of the famous young girl. It’s strangely gloomy and I don’t feel very comfortable inside, seeing all those videos showing the war and Anne’s house.
Wednesday, April 4th
Today, I get up earlier in order to ride to school. Five kilometres… In France I would never do it, I’m too lazy! Holland is flat, you don’t have to ride up and down so it’s easier to ride a bike.
In the morning, we attend English lessons at school. In Holland pupils have got a different way of working: lessons usually last only 50 minutes and the school day end at 2 or 3 pm so that they can do a lot of activities after school. The relationship between teachers and pupils is different from the one in France: it’s friendlier. In some lessons we saw pupils who were listening to music or chatting with their friends without being told of by their teacher. In fact, we have the feeling that everyone does what he wants to do. From my point of view it seems to be very cool but for teachers maybe it’s not…
At noon, when lessons are over, we leave the school to go to the beach with friends.
Thursday, April 5th
We drive to La Haye where we go to the Mauritshuis, a museum devoted to the art of the 18th century.
Everyone thought that the painting The Girl with a Pearl Earring would be a very big one and would have a lot of protection around it as a famous painting but in fact it is treated as all the other paintings. Some of us are disappointed but I’m not, I enjoy the painting.
We leave the museum at noon and have to eat quickly. We meet near the coach at 1 pm in order to go to the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia.
Friday, April 6th
Last day. The trip is too short. But all good things come to an end. After saying goodbye to our families and our Dutch friends, we leave Heemstede and its beautiful high school for good. After a while, we come to a little traditional village. There are a lot of tourist shops. We make new friends, goats and ducks!
We have lunch there before getting on the coach at 1 pm to leave Holland. I love travelling by coach so the six-hour journey doesn’t really seem long to me.
It’s 10 pm, there we are, in Rouen, back to normal life. No Dutch friends, no visits, and no more coach trips…
The differences between France and the Netherlands
by Marielle and Lucille
Architecture
There are many adjoining houses, which is characteristic of the Netherlands. The architecture is more modern than in France but it remains traditional. Outside, there are many gables and gantries, especially in Amsterdam.
There are many canals in cities. For example, Amsterdam counts 160 canals underneath the sea level, which explains the amount of vegetation.
Ecology
Dutch people really care for the environment.
There are many windmills in fields, cities...
…many tramlines and bicycles, bicycles tracks,...
The police officers ride horses or bicycles.
Finally, the streets are very clean and there are fewer animals in the street.
The way of life of young people / adults
People eat early and at any time. Young people don’t have a balanced diet; they eat many sweet and salty things and much food containing chocolate or peanuts.
Teenagers are active: all of them practice activities which are often late because the lessons end late.
Many of them follow the fashion.
As far as the adults are concerned, many women give birth at home and don’t want to know the sex of the baby.
To conclude, we like Holland. We think that it’s more reassuring than France and that people are ahead owing to the fact that they take care of their country with ecology.
Architecture
There are many adjoining houses, which is characteristic of the Netherlands. The architecture is more modern than in France but it remains traditional. Outside, there are many gables and gantries, especially in Amsterdam.
There are many canals in cities. For example, Amsterdam counts 160 canals underneath the sea level, which explains the amount of vegetation.
Ecology
Dutch people really care for the environment.
There are many windmills in fields, cities...
…many tramlines and bicycles, bicycles tracks,...
The police officers ride horses or bicycles.
Finally, the streets are very clean and there are fewer animals in the street.
The way of life of young people / adults
People eat early and at any time. Young people don’t have a balanced diet; they eat many sweet and salty things and much food containing chocolate or peanuts.
Teenagers are active: all of them practice activities which are often late because the lessons end late.
Many of them follow the fashion.
As far as the adults are concerned, many women give birth at home and don’t want to know the sex of the baby.
To conclude, we like Holland. We think that it’s more reassuring than France and that people are ahead owing to the fact that they take care of their country with ecology.
lundi 2 juillet 2007
Ce que les élèves hollandais ont appris pendant l'échange...
Ecrit par Denise:
Ce que j’ai appris pendant le projet : Par le projet nous avons pu utiliser nos connaissances du francais et de l'anglais. Je sais plus que ce que je croyais. Et maintenant je sais que je peux tenir une conversation en francais. J’ai vu une autre France qu’on voit à la télévison et quand on va en vacances en France. Nous avons vu une autre France parce que nous n’avons pas été des touristes. Naturellement nous avons fait des activités touristiques. Mais parce que nous avons eu une famille d’accueil, nous avons vu la vie francaise authentique. J’ai appris que les élèves francais sont les mêmes, mais ils ont des autres habitudes. Et j’ai appris que je ne suis pas faite pour habiter à l’étranger.
Par Gabrielle:
J’ai appris plus d'expressions en français. C’était vraiment intéressant d’apprendre des choses typiquement françaises. Au Lycée la vie est tout a fait différente de chez nous. Le projet m’a appris d’avoir les idées larges. Parce que je devais passer le temps avec des gens tout a fait différents. Ce n’était pas toujours facile pendant cette semaine. Au commencement on ne se connaît pas du tout. C’était une surprise quelle personne ta correspondante était. Donc il y avait aussi un aspect social qui jouait un rôle. Quand les français venaient ici, ils nous connaissaient déjà et c’était un avantage. Je trouve que c’était un projet très important pour les gens qui veulent apprendre la langue française. Parce que quand tu es chez une autre famille et tu es seule là-bas, tu dois parler français et ça c’est la meilleure façon d’apprendre une autre langue.
Ce que j’ai appris pendant le projet : Par le projet nous avons pu utiliser nos connaissances du francais et de l'anglais. Je sais plus que ce que je croyais. Et maintenant je sais que je peux tenir une conversation en francais. J’ai vu une autre France qu’on voit à la télévison et quand on va en vacances en France. Nous avons vu une autre France parce que nous n’avons pas été des touristes. Naturellement nous avons fait des activités touristiques. Mais parce que nous avons eu une famille d’accueil, nous avons vu la vie francaise authentique. J’ai appris que les élèves francais sont les mêmes, mais ils ont des autres habitudes. Et j’ai appris que je ne suis pas faite pour habiter à l’étranger.
Par Gabrielle:
J’ai appris plus d'expressions en français. C’était vraiment intéressant d’apprendre des choses typiquement françaises. Au Lycée la vie est tout a fait différente de chez nous. Le projet m’a appris d’avoir les idées larges. Parce que je devais passer le temps avec des gens tout a fait différents. Ce n’était pas toujours facile pendant cette semaine. Au commencement on ne se connaît pas du tout. C’était une surprise quelle personne ta correspondante était. Donc il y avait aussi un aspect social qui jouait un rôle. Quand les français venaient ici, ils nous connaissaient déjà et c’était un avantage. Je trouve que c’était un projet très important pour les gens qui veulent apprendre la langue française. Parce que quand tu es chez une autre famille et tu es seule là-bas, tu dois parler français et ça c’est la meilleure façon d’apprendre une autre langue.
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