Belle et Sébastien
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Starring: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier
Released: 18 December, 2013, France
Last Friday, two of the French classes here at school took a trip to the city to watch Belle et Sébastien, which was showing as part of the French film festival. It was a lovely day and pretty much everyone greatly enjoyed the movie. The one thing everyone could definitely agree on was how cute Belle is! I’ve written a short movie review below.
First things first: I’m secretly a big My Kitchen Rules fan. I watch it every time it’s on with my family, without fail. It’s one of the few reality TV shows I actually enjoy.
So imagine my glee when our French teacher said that for one of our weekly tasks this term, we had to research French chefs in Australia! The first person that leapt to my mind was of course, the excellent Manu Feildel. But during my research, I also discovered several other French chefs of importance. Here they are below.
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Today in French class we were discussing the missing Malaysian Airlines plane that disappeared over ten days ago. Our teacher explained to us the term porté disparu.
Porté disparu means ‘reported missing’, and she explained it to us using multiple diagrams, which actually helped a lot! I was quite interested in learning this new and interesting phrase.
À bientôt 🙂
On the 28th of February, I attended the Big Rehearsal at Grainger Studio in the centre of Adelaide. For those of you who don’t know what the Big Rehearsal is, it’s an opportunity for young, classical musicians to spend a day playing with and learning from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Basically, I spent a full day playing first horn for the ASO.
Today in French we talked about where we were born and where we have lived. I was actually fortunate enough to be born in a very beautiful place: Karratha, in Western Australia.
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Je suis née à Karratha, en Australie occidentale.
Mes parents et mes deux frères sont nés ici à Adelaide.
Je suis née dans un hôpital, à l’hôpital de Nickol Bay. J’ai habité en Karratha depuis cinq ans. C’était près de la plage, et un c’était un petit village. Il y a beaucoup de cyclones et d’ouragans.
Maintenant, j’habite en Adelaide, dans une petite maison, dans les faubourgs.
Je suis allée à l’école Sheidow Park Primary.
À bientôt 
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Demain, dès l’aube is a beautiful poem by the classic French writer Victor Hugo. You can read the poem in French & English in my last post. However, for this post I am doing a text analysis, and answering some questions that we were given in class.
Demain, dès l’aube is a beautiful, yet very sad poem by the classic French author Victor Hugo. Have a read of it below, in French & English.
En français:
Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne,
Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends.
J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la montagne.
Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.
Je marcherai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées,
Sans rien voir au dehors, sans entendre aucun bruit,
Seul, inconnu, le dos courbé, les mains croisées,
Triste, et le jour pour moi sera comme la nuit.
Je ne regarderai ni l’or du soir qui tombe,
Ni les voiles au loin descendant vers Harfleur
Et, quand j’arriverai je mettrai sur ta tombe
Un bouquet de houx vert et de bruyère en fleur.
In English:
Tomorrow, from dawn, at the time when the countryside becomes pale
I will leave. You see, I know that you are waiting for me.
I shall walk through the forest, I shall walk through the mountains.
I can’t stay away from you any longer.
I shall walk with my eyes fixed on my thoughts,
Without seeing outside of myself, without hearing any sound,
Alone, unknown, bent back, crossed arms,
Sad, and the day for me will be like the night.
I shall neither look at the gold of the setting sun,
Nor the sails in the distance which are coming to Harfleur
And, when I arrive I shall put down on your grave
A bouquet of green holly and heather.
I hope you enjoyed this short post, and that you liked the poem!
À bientôt 🙂
Where is the best French food in Adelaide? That’s a question many people have tried to answer.
Although there is a lack of restaurants that serve authentic French cuisine in Adelaide, there are actually some really lovely French bakeries and restaurants scattered around the place, if you only know where to look.
The other day in French class we learnt a new word: rayonnant. Essentially, it means ‘radiant’ as in a ‘radiant person’ or a ‘radiant smile’. Our teacher helped us remember the word by also telling an amusing story along with the meaning, which helped a lot! À bientôt
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