Shireen in France

In this Language and Culture camp, you basically go to a couple hours of grammar class, a couple hours of culture class, and then travel around the closer cities with 10 girls and this nice french woman that spoke english. The grammar classes were kind of rough, the culture classes were a bit of a joke, but the touring was nice.

The first place we went was Monaco, a little...not really country, but independent state of France. It was of course beautiful, strangely enough completely built on a rocky mountain cliff side that faced the Sea. It's funny really, because they couldnt have found a more difficult place to build a city. Actually, we also saw the ship where Stallen and other political leaders had meetings.It was also the most obsuredly rich area I've ever seen. We went past the main casino of Monaco, and there were about 50 of the most expensive cars all in one compact area, Im pretty sure they were just parked there to show them off though. However there was also the older part of Monaco which was a nice little village.

On the 31st, the two girls i was staying with and myself went out to this small village near Nice where there were some of the only houses I saw in Nice. The city itself has only apartments, and in the country there are more houses, extremely large houses.So we went to this orchard and picked oranges for Claire who wanted to make jam. The village overlooked all of Nice and the Mediteranean Sea.

We also toured around Antibes, which was another little city, however unfortunately we had seen so many little cities that it was starting to get old... it was getting harder to appreciate it.

Finally we went to Cannes, which is apparently famous for the Cannes Film Festival. We were dropped off downtown by our familiar bus that had been taking us everywhere. There was shop after shop on every street. There was the cheaper streets and the more mainstream fashion. We also saw the building were the film festivam takes place, and outside it there are hand prints like in hollywood, and a beautiful beach.