My name is Elise. I’m French and this is what an ordinary school day is like for me… 10 November 2009
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I get up very early, around 6 o’clock. I have breakfast with my family and my parents drop me at school on their way to work. I usually have classes from 8 to 12,with 15 minutes in the middle of the morning. Then I have lunch at the school canteen. It is not very good and we often have to queue to get in because most pupils have lunch at 12. Some have to wait till 1! In the afternoon, I have two or three more classes and I rarely finish before 4. Some of my friends have 4 classes in the afternoon and finish at 6 ! Then, I take the bus back home. I like it when I have no homework to do but it doesn’t happen very often 
. Fortunately, I have Wednesday afternoons free and there’s no school on Saturdays. And in France, we have a lot of holidays: between a week and a half and two weeks every 6 or seven weeks. But I think I’d rather have fewer holidays and shorter days !
Now, what about you ? What is an ordinary school day like in your country ?
Cité-Rêves :: Sarah and Tomy fly to South Africa 30 November 2007
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Hi !!
We are Sarah & Tomy and we are students at the Lycée Alexis de Tocqueville. We want to tell you about the incredible experience that we are living. Grasse, our home town is giving young people between 16 and 25 the opportunity to build up a project and to realise it through the Cité-Rêves programme.
Sarah, Tomy and M. Leleux, Mayor of Grasse, at the Cité-Rêves award ceremony, 23 November 2007.
So we decided to apply. In fact, we had to prepare a file with the description and the aim of our project. Actually we wanted to make a trip in South Africa to see and talk about the consequences of Apartheid nowadays. After a lot of work and discussion with our teachers, our file was ready for evaluation. One week later, we were called for an interview in front of a jury of 10 people to defend our project and to show our motivation. When we finished, we were so happy because we already had the answer : YES!!
We are now ready to go to South Africa. The city of Grasse has given us € 2100 to make our project real. This money will be used to pay for our flight ticket and all the expenses that we’ll have over there. (more…)
The French High School exam: a lot of stress? 25 January 2007
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In life, a lot of events can cause stress: moving, getting a new job, and for us, pupils of ‘Terminale’ (the senior year in a French high school), taking the ‘bac’!
First, it is a lot of stress BEFORE taking it because there’s a lot of homework to do, and the teachers, and the parents… Even if the teachers are here to help us, sometimes they discourage us when they give us a bad mark. So, we work harder but they don’t always see it! There are also our parents who put a lot of pressure on us, ‘If you don’t work harder, you’ll fail!’. They say that to ‘motivate’ us, to make us do better, to urge us to surpass ourselves, but I must say that in my case, it doesn’t work! (…) (more…)
