Le Chocolate!

I had a great day today in the Lycee at Notre Dame de Grace.  My classes today were with Terminale - Yr 13 and with a BTS class. They were 20 and 21 yrs old and 1st year University. They were doing commerce, marketing and International Law. They were such fun to be with and had good English. They were very proud of their Ch'ti roots and wanted to share local knowledge with me in all areas. The Terminale classes were great also. Some of them were from the European section, so had been doing extra English classes for some time. In groups they had prepared questions to ask me about NZ life and culture. They asked excellent questions - even concerning our government, economics, cost of living etc.
My highlight today though was popping up the road to Belgium to go to a chocolate shop! They tell me Belgium chocolate is the best in the world and Danielle was visiting a friend tonight and wanted to take a gift of chocolate to her.

 

The smell when you walked in to the shop was so good! The displays were fabulous and the selection amazing!

 

 

We went to visit a friend of Danielle's at 7pm and I thought we were returning for dinner after that, but no......!  We continued on to Danielle's English speaking group that meet every fortnight. There are about 20 people who attend and all just want to practise using English. I was a leader tonight with my own group and it was great. They were very appreciative of the help and conversation with a native speaker.

We got home at 10pm for dinner! What a long day - I was almost past eating but had to force down some of Danielle's pork and herb pie, followed by some Belgium chocs for dessert!!

 

I'm on the tractor in the morning as Bernard starts getting in his maize crop. This will be interesting!

I have an appointment at 11am with the Mayor of Le Quesnoy. I've no idea why he wants to see me as I've already had the tour etc. We shall see tomorrow....

Back into france on way home from chocolate shop.