Showing posts with label laf2201. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laf2201. Show all posts

Photo Diary: Sète, France

DSC_1005

DSC_1017

DSC_1034

DSC_1035

DSC_1062

DSC_1063

DSC_1065

DSC_1066

DSC_1071

DSC_1084

DSC_1090

DSC_1115

"J'ai senti dans ses mains le chaleur d'un destin."
Sète was a beautiful seaside town with salty air and sea breezes. This was where I took my first swim in the Mediterranean Ocean and it was absolutely FREEZING even though we were in the peak of Summer. However, it was a good experience of liberation from self-consciousness and what was even better was climbing onto boulders and drying off in the warm embrace of the Sun. One thing that struck me about Sète was its tranquility and peace - something I really treasured at that point in time. It was also my first time trying Moules Frites (mussels and fries)! Incidentally, it was also La fête nationale du 14 juillet, otherwise known as Bastille Day, and we were treated to a twenty
-five minute long firework display that ended off the day with a bang. x
,

Photo Diary: Avignon, France


DSC_0996

DSC_0994

DSC_0995

DSC_0949

DSC_0954

DSC_0960

DSC_0963

DSC_0968

DSC_0974

DSC_0980

DSC_0981

DSC_0984

DSC_0992

When we went to Avignon, we were treated to Festival d'Avignon which was an art/theatre festival. The city was abuzz with actors giving performances in the middle of the streets (in full-costume) and tourists milling about! It was a strange juxtaposition between the contemporary performances and the archaic backdrop of a medieval castle... The castle was absolutely breathtaking by the way! It was huge and intricate with a giant dining hall (once engulfed in flames -- la salle brûlée, literally meaning burnt room) and grand chambers. I've always loved visiting castles. I remember it being an excruciatingly sweltering day and that that scoop of strawberry sorbet was an absolute godsend. x
,

Photo Diary: Carcassonne, France

DSC_0854

DSC_0848

DSC_0860

DSC_0856

DSC_0873

DSC_0838

DSC_0839

DSC_0847

Beautiful medieval fortresses and a town within walls. Also featuring the happiest dog ever and his owner who so kindly agreed to have her picture taken. I really enojyed myself on this field trip and I guess now I can't say "Je n'ai jamais vu Carcassonne!" x
,

Photo Diary: Montpellier, France

DSC_0885

DSC_0909

DSC_0915

DSC_0919

DSC_0924

DSC_0947

DSC_0948

DSC_0945

DSC_0045

DSC_0054

DSC_0063

DSC_0064

DSC_0073

DSC_0076

DSC_0077

DSC_0088

DSC_0102

DSC_0116

DSC_0114

It's been a good 3 months since I've returned from Montpellier, where I spent 3 weeks getting to practice my French during my Summer Language Immersion Programme under NUS LAF2201. Whenever I look at these photos, I just can't help but smile because I hold these beautiful memories so dear to my heart. It was a wonderful experience -- the school, the people, the buildings, the food, the sights and the sounds. Memories fascinate me because of their natural and subconscious formation, in a sense that you're hardly ever aware of the cognitive process that films your life through your eyes, until it plays back in your head later on.

I look at these photos and miniature films begin to roll in my mind, of the time we all watched the Sun set at 9.30 P.M. while eating cheese and drinking wine, legs dangling off the edge of the park wall with music floating off in the distance. Or of the time we trawled through the narrow winding alleys - of which Montpellier had in a great abundance, and finally found a place for dinner (where I ever so gracefully fell off my chair by doing nothing at all) and the kind lady next to us taught us how to eat. The palpable merriment and festivity that imbued the air, helped along by three glasses of wine for 5 euros and the joy of Les Estivales. Thankful to have had my life enriched so. x
,

Copyright messycheryl. Designed by BloggerTemplate