Fanny & Pauline's blog

  This weekend Pauline and I went to Dinard to prepare our confirmation which will be on the 27th of may in Rennes' stadium. In Dinard it was very sunny although there was a little of wind. We did a walk on a coastal footpath along a beautiful sea. There were a big sun and a sublime landscape !!! We made pauses where we thank about some Bible's themes. After having a picnic, we resumed our discovery of Dinard and we arrived at St Francis'home which is a home of Charity. Two women made us discover Marthe Robin's life who is the founder of this place and all the Charity's home. They welcomed us very well and all was perfect. We slept in room of 2 or 4 and we ate correctly on larges tables. The Sunday, my confirmation group and I helped the staff to dryind dishes. We were very happy to do service and we sang with the employee.

In conclusion, this weekend was for me exceptional and all we did and shared together was fabulous.

Fanny

  Two weeks ago, we went to Berlin in bus at our penfriend's home. When we arrived, friday afternoon, after 20 hours of journey, we were very tired because we slept approximately 2 hours..... My penfriend lived in the old French district after the World War II : Tegel. Tegel is beautiful and it is very different from the center of Berlin because there are lot of houses and just a few buildings. It's a district very quiet with a beautiful lake, some rich houses, pavilions and little garden for people who don't have garden. We spent the weekend in our family to discover them a little more. Me , I went to the fun fair with my penfriend and we went in the city with french people and others penfriend. During all the week, we visited lot of monuments like the Chancellery (where Angela Merkel have meeting,...)  ,

Sans Souci's castle (where King Alexander Ier lived)  , Cecilienhof's castle (where there were Potsdam Agreement) , Ravensbruck's concentration camps (where resistant women were locked and they had to work very hard)  ,   

Check-Point Charlie  (which was the crossing point between the FRG : Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR : German Democratic Republic), the Church of Remembrance, the Brandebourg Gate, the Reichstag

..... Berlin is a big and busy city with lot of tall builgings which are headquarters of companies but I loved this atmosphere. Sometimes, it was like in New York..   

My family was very nice although Julie, my penfriend didn't talk a lot with me.The mother, Uta, made me discover some aspects of Berlin like the Tegel's lake, Potsdammer platz with its big dome ... I even saw the preview of a film (Lucky Ones) with the red carpet, the reporters, the body guards.. but not the stars !!!! Uta talked me all the time and she was very very nice and kind with me.

In Berlin I ate normally because the mother has ever lived in France. For instance, we ate salad, meat, pasta ... Just, one day, the evening, we ate wafer potatoes with, on this wafer, applesauce !!! I was good but a little strange. Some French perople went everyday to Mac Do's and they ate lots of hamburgers, pizza, chips... Not very good for the health !!!

I can't told you all the details of this amazing and wonderful trip because it will take hours. I know everyone loved Berlin and we lived a super experience with a a great environment.

Fanny

Ludovico Einaudi is an italian pianist and composer born in 1955. You can hear his music (Divenire) in an ad for Orange. But he is now known owing to "Intouchables", because he wrote the music of this moving film. The one I prefer is Fly ! It's impossible to explain why ... I just love it ! It's played on the piano and it is really beautiful ! So, listen to it !

Pauline

Are you scared about anything ? Spiders, snakes, darkness …
Well, me I’m terrified of storms ! It’s horrible … it makes me feeling stressed ! Some people laugh of this and say : “It’s only a little storm !” But storms are dangerous !

In fact storms are caused by big dark clouds called Cumulonimbus. In them, there is negative electricity. On the floor, it’s positive electricity.
So at a moment, when positive electricity meets negative electricity, a flash of lightning appears in the sky, and we can hear a big noise, the thunder. Most of the time, there are a few seconds between the flash and the noise : each second represents around 350 metres so when you count you can estimate how far the lightning has thrown.
It’s better to be inside when there is a storm. If lightning strikes a tree, the tree can explode !
Well … I stop speaking of that because I don’t want you to be as scared as I am when there is a storm !

By Pauline