Blogs from Brest, Brittany , France, Europe - page 3

Travel Tip #1: If you decide to go anywhere, read up on it a little bit. I mean, at least know where you’re going. Being the adventurous exchange students that we are, and desirous to see as much of our host country as possible before we return home, we decided to take advantage of this long Easter weekend and book a trip to Brest. Being the assertive type-A student that I am, I agreed without question (i.e. without asking things like “where is it?” or “what is there to do there?”). The first sign of trouble was when both of my host parents could not understand why we had chosen Brest, instead of another, more interesting city. Being a port city, I was informed that Brest had been almost completely demolished by the Allies in World ... read more

the first time I went abroad by myself, well well well, how to say, I was very exciting though. Since I took French as my another foreign language, and after that, my college offered a study programme for us, then there i was. the airport Charles-de-Gaule is incredbly massive, my teacher told us that we need to be aware otherwise we might get lost there!! haha and we took another flight to Brest which was the west coast of France. Le CIEL is the language centre we studied for a month, to be honest, my francias wasnt that good at that time, however, I joined the dubetant level in a way that I can challange myself more. Everything was fine in the school, the majority students were taiwanese, Arabians and Russians. I got to say, those ... read more