Touring Briancon by bus

It's been a hectic week! It started with a drive to Turin Airport to pick up my mom!! If you feel like reading more, click Car breakdown

 Mom putting on toe warmers because we have been freezing in the auto shop for about three hours. 

Italian to French to English....and a week later we still don't have a car!

 Gondola ride.

We snowshoed straight down the ski run. It seems like you can pretty much do whatever you want on the ski mountain here. If you get hurt or die, that's your problem. 

Bread, meat, and cheese shops in town. 

Old Town. 

At school...

If you are on the Ski Team you do gymnastics in P.E during the winter trimester.  Ski Team kids have their own P.E. class.

They spend the winter trimester working on core strength, balance, and flexibility. 

Students who are not on the Ski Team, play Handball, Volleyball, or Rock Climb for their winter P.E. classes. I haven't seen or heard about Dodgeball in weeks :)!

My mom and I went to the school Handball game. I haven't quite figured out all the rules but they seem to like it. Here is a short video. Handball video Funny stuff.




I've been working really hard to set up the English and French pen pals. It's been hard to figure out a way to get this partnership going without interrupting the curriculum too much. The classes are big, teachers have a lot of material to cover, and computers are few and far between.  It doesn't allow for very much freedom. This week I finally feel like I made some progress with an 8th grade (4éme) class and a 9th (3éme) class! Here is a short clip from today! French pen pal video