voyage scolaire du collège Blaise-Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand
This morning we went at Krispy Kreme! It's a doughnut factory and store shop. We tasted a plaine glazed doughnut and we drank pink limonade. It was so delicious! After that, a staff member showed us the machine operation and the process of making doughnuts....
Today we visited Williams Brice Stadium. It was more than 90 000 seats! The team has 113 players and 85 have scholarships so they go to college for free. We went to the work out room and the stadium. We visited players's facilities. A new building is...
This afternoon we visited the state house. It's the third state house of South Carolina because the two first were wood and they burned down during the civil war. Therefore, the third is in blue granite. the stats house took 52 years to be built ( there...
Today we visited the Riverbanks Zoo (Zoo and Garden). A guide explained to us the behavior of different animals (elephants, flamingos, otters, merkats, primates). The merkats live in mob and the female is the boss ! They are predators and preys, they...
Today we went to the campus of the university of South Carolina. There is a library designed by Robert Mills. He made the Marcy ball too (like the Washington monument). We saw a House, Mc Cutchen House, for hotel/restaurant/tourism and management studies....
This afternoon we saw the firefighters of Lexington. They told us who is the chief, who is the driver and who is the man who outs off the fire. This man showed us his equipment and has to put it on in one minute when he has to go! they showed us their...
This morning we visited WLTX19 local channel.There are part of a group of 48 stations and they work with some other stations of the United States of America. We met an anchor and a producer. We saw 2 women who are marketing producers. They make some short...
Today we visited River Bluff High School. In River Bluff the scheduler is different everyday. Students can leave the school more easily than in Blaise Pascal. they have playgrounds and places called commons. They can collaborate with other students. they...
Today we went to the Columbia Museum of Art. We saw an exhibition of photographs by Imogen Cunningham. She was a photographer who traveled around the world to take pictures of people and landscapes. She was the first photographer to use the "double exposition"....
Historic Columbia welcomed a group of French exchange students from Lexington Middle School to tour the Woodrow Wilson Family Home and Mann-Simons today! l'histoire c'est cool, indeed! #historyiscool That's the house of a couple of black people who were...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was born in Virginia in 1856 and died in 1923. He studied political science. His father , called Joseph, taught theology. He was a baptist minister. Thomas Woodrow...
Lexington museum is an old property. The owner was named John Fox ( 1805-1884). John's Fox Family employed 52 slaves. We visited the house and the garden, and saw lifestyles of Fow's family. In the garden we saw the smoke house, bake oven and the bathroom...
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John Pemberton invented the drink Coca-Cola with alcohol in 1885. But the mayor of Atlanta forbade alcohol later in the year. So Pemberton modified the recipe. The logo of Coca-Cola was designed by Pemberton's assistant. The polar bear is the mascot of...
Today we visited the Martin Luther King Center. We learnt about his life at the beginning of his non-violent fight. His speeches were displayed. There were 2 worlds : one for blacks and one for whites. Whites had more rights than black people. Blacks...
Today we went to the Museum of human and civil rights. We learnt about the racial segregation in the South. We saw people who fought against racial segregation like Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges... They had different laws in different states : the Jim Crow...
Yesterday we visited the South Carolina state museum. The guide told us about the American history. In first she spoke about colonial life and the life of settlers. They moved to South Carolina in wagon from Virginia! Louise and Emma
The real name of "chicken man" is Ernest Lee. He is famous in South Carolina. He paints chickens and palmettos on wood. He is a single artist with his style !! He's "crazy" and very funny !! We visited his little museum in a caravan !! He sales his paintings...
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