My trip to
France!
On July 6th , the Oxford Ballet School and I went
to France for eight days. We visited the Eiffel tower. We took a tour and watched a performance at
the Paris Opera Ballet. We took classes
the Ecole de Danse la Cite in St. Malo.
We went to Versailles. It was huge and beautiful. On the last day it was
my teacher, Ms. Genevieve’s, birthday.
We went the Eiffel
tower on the first day in Paris. I went to the very top. I took lots of
pictures from all the way up there. The
hard part about it was that we had to walk down all the stairs. But we did go
up the elevator to the top. I saw a couple places we visited. We saw Notre dame
and I got violet ice cream. It was
delicious. I also saw a huge silver ball that people were pushing around. I thought
I’d be scared of heights, but it wasn’t scary. there was lots of people at the
Eiffel tower selling things so I bought eight miniature Eiffel Towers for one
euro I thought it was very tiring,
though .
On the second day we went to the Paris Opera Ballet. It was
very beautiful and graceful, but I didn’t get to take pictures of the show. I was pretty disappointed. I did get a coin
and post card from there gift shop and I was going to get a tiny point shoe but
I didn’t get it. Before the performance a lady gave us a tour around the opera
house. On the tour, we went backstage. It was humungous. It looked like one
million people could fit back there. I forgot to take pictures. She also took us in the audience when it wasn’t
filled with people. It was also huge. Everything was so large. I loved it
there. I loved the Paris Opera ballet it was very the beautiful.
From the third to the fifth day in St. Malo, we took ballet
classes at the Ecole de Danse la Cite. There was a huge window in the studio and
I could see lots and lots of dogs walking past.
There was an enormous, red Tibetan mastiff walking by. I had never seen one in real life. We took intermediate classes, contemporary
classes, point, jazz, and modern, I felt very sore from not dancing in the last
couple weeks. We met some of the French girls Pola, Elice and Maxine they were
really nice, but they couldn’t speak a lot of English. After ballet we went to the park to eat
lunch. We wrote what we wanted on a big piece of paper and a lady bought it for
us and when we got what we ordered we paid her five euros.
After we went to the classes we went to Versailles. It was
amazing, massive and beautiful. We rented bikes and rode all around Versailles.
While we were riding bikes I saw the Queen’s Villagers Village and the Queen’s
private pond. There’s a map inside of the scrap book. I had bread and cheese
for lunch that day. There was a lady who
squeezed fresh oranges for drinks. She
added ice cubes and it was delicious.
The last day
in St. Malo was the best. It was Ms. Genevieve’s birthday. It was also Bastille
Day! We went to a restaurant and ate
tomatoes with mozzarella balls for the first course. The second course was pasta with cheese sauce. For desert we had cheesecake with
strawberries. Everyone in the restaurant sang happy birthday in French and
English. Outside of the restaurant there were lots of painters so we got to
walk in around and look at art. After we walked we saw the Eiffel Tower glow
and sparkle from a distance and we saw fireworks. Visiting France was the best week I ever had. Hopefully I can do it again another year.
here are all the pictures theres lot
by: jena
