Today we visited Notre Dame. Notre Dame is one of the oldest churches in the world (849 years old). We left from Madeleine Daniélou School in the morning as usual and got on bus and headed to the RER train towards downtown France. While in Notre Dame we had a scavenger hunt to help us learn the history and see many things that make the church as beautiful and magnificent as it is. Having the experience of visiting Notre Dame was so amazing that no one adjective is sufficient for explaining it. After Notre Dame we were on the hunt for a cafe so we could get out the cold.
Finally, after 20 minutes of walking (and getting lost) we found a historic little cafe near the old shopping center of France. After we finished eating we had a very interesting and lovely conversation with the women whose table was connected to one of ours. She told us about how she loved the area about how she would take the train just to visit this café. The cafe was great, just like the women said, even though we did not have the nicest waiter.
In between visiting cafe and lunch we went shopping to some boutiques through the old shopping center. I almost liked this kind of shopping better than the Gallery Lafayette. We were able to go wherever we wanted as long as we didn’t get lost and met back at the bride on time.
After some shopping we had a late lunch and some ice cream. Lunch was a completely different experience than the cafe in terms of the service. It was a little “hole in the wall” restaurant with waiters that were funny and nice and food that was fantastic. We met our correspondents from Daniélou at the restaurant. While they finished some desserts from the restaurant the girls from Holton headed to the ice cream shop. The ice cream shop was supposed to be one of the best in this part of France and it did live up to its reputation.
As soon as we finished our ice cream we walked as fast as we could to the theater. We were going to see The Bald Soprano by Ionesco. This play was super confusing because there were many play on the words and they were hard to understand because we didn’t know the different pronunciation between the north and the south. Many of our correspondents from Daniélou had the same reaction but it was enjoyable because we actually got to see a play in French. Overall this was my favorite day and a great way to start the weekend.
. Kenya McNealy
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