From Paris : Katia's report

 Hello Chicago !

 The first picture is a graffiti wall next to Place Gambetta. The artists change regularly and it's always very original. Another graffiti wall on the side of Ménilmontant, next to the park.

We also photographed the Place de la Bastille and Place Gambetta. I love that area because there is a lot of entertainament: there are a cinema, many shops. The 5th picture is that of the streetcar .We also took pictures of the center of Paris.The 6th photo shows the view from the Pont des Arts where couples hang their padlocks with their initials, with the Seine. Then we took a picture of the Rue de Rivoli  because I love this neihgbourhood. We can find lots of clothing stores, shoes, jewelery and it is full of shops. there beside the City Hall and St. Paul, very beautiful district that I love too. The last picture is a metro station exit from the Louvre Rivoli, I find original and I like. we often see tourists pose in front.

Katia (2nd 9)

Très bonnes vacances de Noël à tous les lycéens du lycée King College Prep à Chicago et du lycée Colbert à Paris !

This is the 2nd 7-8-9 class  discovering the video of the King College Prep students singing a Xmas song ! (sorry for the blurred pix, we'll make a new one after the holidays !). Bonnes vacances de Noël 2014  à tous à Paris et à Chicago !
   
                     

Hello Chicago ! Merry Xmas songs from Paris (2nd 1-2-3)

 

                   

From Paris: Maimouna and Nesrine's report: at the Galeries Lafayette: joyeux Noël !

   This year the tree is upside down for a more original side

Les élèves de King College Prep High School souhaitent un joyeux Noël 2014 aux élèves du lycée Colbert en chantant !

NOUVELLES DE CHICAGO: Bienvenue à la “Windy City”. Si vous ne le savez pas Chicago est la triosième ville la plus peuplée des Etats-Unis avec 2,8 millions de personnes. Chicago a la plus longue rue du monde aussi, qui est appelée Western Avenue. Chicago est egalement connue pour la Water Tower, le John Hancock Building , et la plus célèbre Sears Tower maintenant Willis Tower, qui était autre fois le plus haut bâtiment du monde, tout comme la tour Eiffel. DARA

CHICAGO :PHOTOS DE DAVIANNA Voici des photographies du centre ville de Chicago la nuit

NOUVELLES DE CHICAGO : Bonjour, nous sommes en français 3 et sommes toutes en première excepté Brianna qui est en terminale. Nous avons des emplois du temps différents mais nous retrouvons tous les jours à 11 h et demie dans la classe de français. Nous vous remercions de vos photos. Elles sont très jolies. Votre lycée semble très grand. Ici, nous sommes dans le hall d'entrée près de l'auditorium. Savez-vous qui est sur la peinture murale? De gauche à droite, Brianna, Ana, Jaylah, Araceli, Amber, Micah, Candace, Dara, Deja, et Nicole. A bientôt.

CÉLINE RAKOTOMALALA AND FOFANA FARIA 2nd7 The city of Paris: We are going to show you three different well-known areas of Paris: Belleville, Hôtel de Ville and Châtelet. Belleville is a district famous for its graffiti in the streets and Châtelet is famous for its shops and its big plazas. every day there is a great deal of people who pass by, it is very interesting. Hôtel de Ville is just next to Châtelet and it also has a big plaza where the children can play and where the artists come (painters, musicians.)

MESSAGE DE CHICAGO SALUT! JE VOUS ENVOIE DES PHOTOS QUE J'AI PRISES DANS LE BUS COMME JE PRENDS LE BUS TOUS LES JOURS POUR RENTRER À LA MAISON. VOUS VERREZ DES SCULPTURES ET DES BÂTIMENTS DU CENTRE VILLE. ANA.

MESSAGE DE CHICAGO LA CLASSE DE FRANÇAIS 2 DE LA HUITIÈME PÉRIODE. DE GAUCHE À DROITE: EDAJAH, AMOREE, MALIK, DAVIANNA, DEJA, RAMON, JORDAN ET OUMAR.

MESSAGE DE CHICAGO: LA CLASSE DE FRANÇAIS 2 DE LA SIXIÈME PÉRIODE. DE GAUCHE À DROITE; ELIZABETH, FATIMATA, MONISHA, NATHALIE, ADAM, STAN, MICAH, ET JORDAN. DEVANT DE GAUCHE À DROITE: JORDAN, AUSTIA, MICHELLE, SMARIA, ET AYAN.

Photos envoyées par Jaylah de Chicago. Chaque matin, nous sommes Ana, Nicole et moi, nous allons à L'Alliance Française. On a un goûter français et on étudie la culture française et quelquefois on rencontre des étudiants du lycée français avec qui on discute

PARIS Regarding the Just By Albert Camus Sarah, Océanne, Nathan and I went to the Theatre with other students from the Colbert College. The name of the theatre is “Le Carreaux Du Temple” and we saw the play “Regarding the Just” by Albert Camus. I found the play interesting but occasionally, parts of it were boring. The staging was original because it consisted of signs with revolutionary slogans. Before and after the play, students and professors met the actors of the play for a “questions/answers” and debated on several subjects such as politics, revolutions, terrorism. After that, Nathan and I, with the other pupils of the Colbert College went to a market to buy sandwiches, chips and sodas. Sarah and Océanne stayed at the theatre. When we went back to the place, we ate a copious dinner behind the offices. At the end of the play Nathan and I left the theatre and Sarah and Oceanne stayed for the second part of “questions/answers”. Summary of the play: The Justs are a group of revolutionaries plotting to assassinate the Grand Duke Serge, Uncle of the Tsar by an attempt with a bomb. The first attempt set up, Yanek Kaliayev is selected to throw the bomb on the Grand Duke’s carriage. Seeing his niece and nephew, he is paralyzed and refuses to throw the bomb. Stephan is disgusted and points out how many children died because of the Tsarist oppression. After that, Yanek prepares for his second attempt two days later and successfully kills the Duke. Yanek is caught out by the police and put in prison. The wife’s duke visits him and makes compromise: if he agrees to tell his companions names in exchange of his life of else he’ll be hanged in public. Dora, her lover knows Yanek has not betrayed them and the night of his execution she swears she’ll throw the next bomb and avenge Yanek. 

Evening to the theater : 

Regarding The Just We arrived at the theater in 18:30, towards 19:00 we began to speak and to ask questions to the actors of the play, it lasted 30 minutes. The room play began has 20:00. This modern version is a resumption of the room play written by Albert Camus. Songs are quite based on the rock. Summary of the room play: In Moscow, in February, 1905, a group of socialist revolutionaries decided of murdered on the Grand Duke Serge. For it, They decide to throw a grenade on this one while goes to the theater. Boria the leader of the Resistance decides to entrust this task to Yanek, who misses his blow, because the evening when he had to pass has the act the nephews of the Grand-Duke were with their uncle. He managed to kill him another evening a few days later. After it, he is arrested and questioned by an inspector andthe Duchess (the wife of the Grand-Duke) He will be executed for murder, such was are wishes. He companions were sad to have lost him but proud of him…

Regarding The Just by Albert Camus

                                    The Trap Door Theatre
   

 At the Carreau Du Temple , November 26th 2014 

PARIS