Day 2

mardi, le 9 juin

We have joined with two girls from a high school in Corona, CA and two boys from Alabama. They are lovely!

We started early (and everyone on time!) with an informative tour of Paris, by bus. We saw famous sites such as Champs-Elysées, went in circles at the Arc de Triomphe, visited and lunched in the busy and lively Latin Quarter. On our tour, we discovered the Sorbonne University, which is truly a sight to see as the second oldest in Europe. We visited the Pantheon and then the picturesque Luxembourg gardens and St. Sulpice, the home of the Rose Line. 

                                       Stopped for a quick photo!

We drove down the beautiful Boulevard St. Germain where Hemingway hung out, which inspired him to write his famous work “A Moveable Feast. We then traveled past the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay and the Academie Française, an institution, created in 1635 to protect the French language. We stopped for a moment to have a wonderful history lesson on the French Revolution at the Place de la Concorde.

Dane and Avery at the Catacombs

 We scared ourselves at the famous catacombs, where piles upon piles of bones lay stacked the ceiling, all hidden away under the streets of Paris. To top off these exciting past few days, tonight we have plans to go to dinner next to the Tuilerie Gardens followed by a trip to the top of the EiffelTower! Talk about a lot of amazing things that ACIS has planned for this educational journey.

Tomorrow morning we part for Normandie!

                                                      Selfie! <3