To the Sea in Ships
May 27, 2008
Bryan Abadie
Day 3 started off early! We all arrived at school at 7:30. (an hour and a half earlier than when school starts; why can't we start at 9) We took a three hour bus ride to La Rochelle, a huge harbor in the west of France. We took pictures from the stairs of the castle overlooking the water before splitting up in our groups to explore the city. We had about an hour to go where we pleased, but most of the time was spent eating our huge lunches. Today, our host parents packed us a bag lunch. Everyone had more food then they could handle. I personally had four sandwiches, two apples, a huge bag of chips, lots of cherry tomatoes, and two Twix Bars. At 12:30, we all met back at this fantastic ice cream shop before getting on the bus to go to our next destination.
Next, we went to see a large 18th century style boat under construction named L'Hermione. French carpenters have been working on this boat for years, and in all, they expect it to be finished in 2011. It will take them over ten years to build this boat, the same boat that took only 6 months to build in 1700s. The builders plan to sail the boat around the world when they finish.
After leaving the boat, we had some time to look at different pastry shops before heading back to Tours.
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