I was a crazy francophile back in 2014 and I’m proud to say that nothing has changed, nearly three years later.
Last blog this year. Seems scary to think that we were in France a month ago and just like that reality hits and I miss it all. “In a blink of an eye it’s all gone”. I never use to get that quote but now I do. Just like that we were there and now we are here, seems like a dream.
Snap back to reality, I presented my findings of the trip and project to my French class. I think they were quite shocked when I showed them pictures that war photographers took. It was gruesome to see the reality...
Je ne crois pas que ça fasse maintenant presqu’un mois depuis le moment où nous avons pris l’avion pour la France! J’ai l’impression d’avoir dit à ma mère d’accueil un jour que “nous sommes déjà à la moitié” et le prochain, c’était un “à bientôt” à la place Guy Mollet. Comment le temps passe vite! Alors, voilà quelques reflections…
Nous avions une grande occasion de visiter des nombreux sites importants — les cimetières, les monuments et les musées y compris. Pourtant, mes souvenirs les plus...
The 7th Reinforcements leave Wellington for Suez on 9th October 1915.
(Image retrieved from http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C42912)
An overview of our project that hangs at the exhibition in the Queen Elizabeth II Pukeahu Education Centre at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.
Baradene College students Olivia Mendonca and Genevieve Bowler with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, at their exhibition at opening of the Queen Elizabeth II Pukeahu Education Centre at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, Wellington, where the Shared Histories project by Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in Auckland and the French school Lycée Professionnel Jean Macé, in Chauny, France is on display.
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