Lauren Keyes ’14

Imagine this: You’re sitting outside of a gourmet café in the heart of Paris, surrounded by the aromas of cappuccino and fresh baked bread. You look to your left and you see the Eiffel Tower. You look to your right, and you see artists, musicians, and the glamorous French people everywhere.

Every summer, Madame Emery takes a group of students on a french trip. The trip switches every year from France to Quebec, Canada. This past summer, a group of nine Burr and Burton Students went to France. They began their 13 day journey on June 15; they spent the day in Paris, France, and then took a bus to Carcassonne, where they took a walking tour of the town. Their trip consisted of a weekend with a host family, museums, Medieval Castles, tours of many different villages, swimming, hiking, shopping at french markets, and many other adventures. They also worked on the ruins of two medieval houses where they discovered artifacts such as pottery from the 12th and 13th centuries and a glass bottle from about 800 years ago.

“Today, [June 22nd,] we went to a day camp for six to nine year-olds and played games and had lunch with them. The BBA students stepped up and led games in French-like pros and immediately made a lot of new little friends,” wrote Madame Emery in the journal entries which she wrote throughout the course of her trip.

A few of the many sights that the nine fortunate students had the opportunity to see were the Eiffel Tower, the Consiergerie museum, and the Louvre. They even got to go up into the the Eiffel Tower at midnight when it sparkled!

Now imagine this: you could be one of these students! Every other year, this trip is available to any students who have finished up to French 3. The years in between, you could visit Quebec City, and you don’t even need to know French! (Although it would definitely help.)

Burr and Burton student, Sophia Guglietta participated in the trip and she stated that, “[She] got a great sense of the french culture on the trip. It was definitely an experience [She] will never forget, and it’s definitely worth signing up for ”

If this sounds like something you would like to do, contact Madame Emery in the Rowland Center or on the Burr and Burton website. To learn more about this trip, visit http://www.notesfromtheglobe.com/trip-journals/france-match-a-trip-june-15-june-28/ or https://sites.google.com/a/burrburton.org/mme-emery/home/carcassonne-2011.