Our experience and discussions with the host family: 

In the family there were Michael and June who are married. Another person was here, Aladdin, he's a libyan room-mate. We couldn't talk a lot with June because she was sick. But, we talked a lot with Aladdin and Michael. The first was sport. Aladdin is a fan of Manchester United because he study in Manchester. Michael is rather impartial, he likes sport but he is not agree with the hugesum of money in Football. Michael talked about the sport's installation in Colwyn Bay. He also talked about the city of Liverpool. He said that the docks was renovated and it was a good place to visit. 

The next day, we talked about pubs. He said that the traditional pubs in United Kingdom suffer a slow decline and that there were less pubs because he thinks that young people prefer stay at home on computer rather than hang out with friends. He said that there was an other problem in England, the downtown are deserted by people and gang start to occupy the downtown. This problem is everywhere in UK. 

Later, when we were just with Aladdin playing at videogames he talked about the libyan revolution. He said that problems continue in Libya. The militia employed by Kadhafi cause a lot of troubles like racket because militia need money to protect themselves. He talked about the troubles in the new political system. He said that nobody like the islamic brotherhood but they voted for them because they promise the return of the order if they were elected.

The last day we talked about the case of Francois Hollande with Julie Gayet. He said if this happen in England, english people will be shock and Michael was surprised that french people don't care about it. He said that effictively we don't care about it because there are other problems more important in France like unemployement. We were not really surprised because other presidents had an affair like Francois Mitterand who had an hide daughter. We talked about the french culture and that they are a lot of hollidays for french students. Aladdin said that he had 8 months of hollidays during the revolution in Libya.

Mattéo Leblanc

Grégoire Boisseau-Berteloot

The experience of our trip / DIARY   

On Monday, January 27th

At 2p.m, we left of  our High School to going to England. 
We spent 18 hours in a coach… We arrived at 11p.m in Calais to take the ferry, we had two hours of ferry. We arrived at Dover at 2p.m and we were driven up to Chester for 7 hours. 

On Tuesday, January 28th

We arrived in Chester at 7 :30a.m and we ate a breakfast in Watergate bar. 

After, we saw the Dewa Roman Museum, we visited Chester with a roman legionnaire. 

We ate in a Watergate bar again. 
After lunch, we visited Grosvenor museum (a social history museum) and we had free time in Chester. 

At the end of the afternoon, we took the coach to go to host family. 
When we arrived in Colwyn Bay, John, the father of the family, picked us to go home. At home, we met Jeannette, the mother. They showed us their house and our bedroom for the week. They have two bedrooms for us. 

The evening, we began to watch a movie but Jeannette called us for the dinner. We ate breaded chicken with pasta and peas. For dessert, we ate jelly, it was disgusting ! 

At the end of the meals, Jeannette made hot milk with sugar for us and we went to bed because we didn’t sleep well in the coach and we were very tired. 

Wednesday, January 29th

Today, we got up at 7 o’clock to going to Liverpool. In Liverpool, we went in Albert Dock to visited the Beatles Story exhibition, the maritime and slavery museum.

We ate in a bus stop and drank a coffee at Starbucks Coffee. At the afternoon, we walked in Liverpool city and we went to the Cavern pub, who Beatles beggan music. At the end of afternoon, we returned in the Docks and did some shops and we took the coach to return in host familly. 

This evening, Jeannette went to Menchester to saw London Grammar in concert with his sister. She cooked for us, Saskia and John before she leaves. 

We ate together and after, we watched T.V with John, he showed us a video about a magician who called Dynamo. He can do something awesome ! It’s fantastic ! 
We talked about own president, François Hollande, they follow the new about that and they laugh about the situation of the country. We talked about the school, the differences between France and England, we talked about some funny videos he has on his phone. We talked about the difference between Apple and Samsung, he said he prefers Samsung, he said it is a better quality and they are more performant than Apple. Iphones break all the time. We talked for two hours after the tea time with John and girls. Saskia, her, she prefer watch T.V oneself. 

After, because we were tired, we went to our bedroom to sleep. 

Thursday, January 30th

On wednesday, we geted up urly to go to school for two hours with Diane, own teacher. We talked about maneers and movies. 
At 10a.m, we went to Conwy to visit Conwy Castle. It was verry big castle next to the sea. We had a really great view. We had no informations about this castle, we can’t learn the life of this castle. 
We finished the visit at midday and we didn’t want to eat outside because it was too cold, so, we ate in a restaurant, we ate a muffin toast with beacon, eggs and mixed salad. It was very good and not much expensive. 

After the restaurant, we went to Snowdonia with the coach, we walked on a little mountain path and the landscape was wonderfull ! 
After walking, we went to Colwyn Bay, in the commercial center but it was not very good. Everybody went to Costa coffee ! At 6p.m, the host family took us to go home. 

When we arrived, we began to tidy the bedroom because the day after, we had to take our suitcases the morning. Jeannette went to talk with us in our bedroom so it was funny, she made tea for us with biscuits. Before the diner, Saskia made a joke for us. She dressed up like a wolf. We tried to speak with her but she didn’t talk, she just did gestures. After, this joke, we went to eat the diner. 
We talked about the day, the school. We asked them some question about Colwyn Bay, some annecdotes of the village, how long they left her this time, Jeannette stays at home. We talked about the pub in england. John went to the pub every friday evening with his friends.DuringAfter the dinner, we saw a movie. We couldn’t finish the movie because we were so tired. 
  

Friday, January 31st

This morning, we took own suitcase, said goodbye at the familly and went to the school. We had again 2hours with the teacher Diane. She was verry funny ! 

After school, we went to the downtown to meet sir the major. We ate in the town hall and we went in Colwyn Bay to bought some things. 
We left at 2p.m because the commercial center was verry short and it was rainy. 
We took the coach for 8hours for the ferry. 

We arrived on Saturday morning at Beaune. 

The trip was very interesting, we learned the culture and the language, we met a nice familly, it was very nice.

After a series of new English lessons at CLT, we came to the city hall.

There, we met the Mayor and councillors of Colwyn Bay, who made for us a presentation of local politics and of the Councillors' Room.

Then, a debate started within the Councillors' Room; Matteo, Roxane and Lucie were the arbiters of the contest… The assembly's subject was: "Shall rugby matches be broadcast in Welsh language only?".

Find here the pictures of Day 5:

... for 18 hours of coach!

Final landing in Calais, after a crossing of the Channel that was rather windy but not so hard for stomachs. 

Arrival planned for 12 AM. 

In the days to come, the blog will be filled by students' works…