Summer Learning
For the past 2 weeks I have been going to to Fi.Af. alliance francese. Its a french school in the upper east side. The first day I got there I was sent to the intermediate class and I should not have been in that class. As soon as I got their I new it, because everybody around me had been going to the school for three years, and this was my first day. So I asked the teacher if I could switch to the beginners camp. After a few minutes their it seemed much more fit for me. So for the first 3 hours we did intense french, and it increased and got harder bye the days. Bye the 4th day the teacher was only talking in french, and we had to reply with the little we new. One thing I really loved about the camp was that they expected more from us than we new. It feels impowering to get responsibilities. So we did all the intense learning in the morning and in the after noon we would go on field trips and get a more cultural experience. We only went to places where the employees spoke french. So if we went to an art gallery in Brooklyn are guide would only speak french to us. The first day we actually did go to an art gallery. It was a very small gallery with hardly anybody in it. The artist was very into mashups. Mashups are basically two characters that would never be put in the same story. The artist choose boota and a snow man. Their where about 95 boots and 95 snow men all paired up to look like they where talking to each other. The tour guide said he made each of the pairs to complement each other, so like I saw a skinny bota waving his hands around like he was telling a joke, and the snow man across from him was chubby and smiling, like the joke had a reaction to him. The next day we went to moma with the thearte teacher. we looked at the Yoko Uno exhibit. The teacher said Yoko Uno was known for so many things like being John Lenans wife, and being an amazing writer, but not many people no she was skilled in freformance art. One of the pieces was a granny smith apple sitting on a small pedestal. The back story on that was that for one of Yoko Unos first exibets she was showing this apple. and John Lennon apparently picked up the apple and took a bite out of it. Yoko was furious and kicked John Lennon out of the museum. Thats how they met. The third day we had baking. We went to a french bakery in soho, and made tarts. Theirs not much more to say about that. The fourth day we had music. I want to be completely honest in this log. It was so boring. I mean 5 hours of my life sitting at a table listening to a guy speak a language I don’t understand, and playing old french music. I have witnesses to. The next day I heard people complaining about how bad the class was, and I saw one of the teacher hear them. She said she has sat in on one of the classes and said it was one of the most offel experiences of her life. And lastly Friday or Vendredi as they say in French. We had fashion. Lets just say it was slightly better than music. I’m sorry I’m being so negative but I really want to be truthful. We went to a fashion museum in times square. On monday we had art again. it was fun. We did are own mashups. I did Jack Skelington and spung bob. It turned out ok, and I will show you a picture at the end. On tusday we had effects. It was super fun,1 because I love special effects, and 2 it was a great class. First we all got an app called split pic. We cropped the table and are heads together to make a severed head on a table. Then we used a DSLR camera and filmed all of us moving a light around. Theirs a setting on a DSLR that can make a video a photo. Basically what you do is you video tape something, and then it makes it 1 shot. Its pretty cool. Then on Wednestday we had cooking again. This time we went to the top floor which is all glass and 10 flites up. You can see everything around you. We made a baguette with stuff inside like camemel and chocolate, and the other one was with tomatoes and cheese. I made 2 small ones one with cheese, and tomatoes, and one with caramel, and chocolate. They where both pretty good. On Thursday we whent to a really cool museum for sound. But it was really more a museum for the entire making of a film. I saw the original animatronic spinning head from the exesist, misses dout fires fat sit, and dress, and choobackas mask. It was amazing. on Friday the very last day of camp we went to the roof again and played acting games for 4 hours. I likes the games and the location I just didn’t like the teacher. When ever I was called on to have an idea he would say he completely disagree with me and ask somebody else. The entire camp was amazing.
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Liam, this camp sounded like quite an experience! They really crammed a lot of field trips into only one week. Do you think your French became stronger thanks to the week at this camp?
yes I do.
also it was 2 weeks