Annual Celebration!

Every June 21 there is a festival of music or Fète de la Musique held all around France. What this means: there are people/bands/groups/whatever playing music all throughout the country well into the night. They may be on street corners or in concert halls and whether they are good or bad, no one complains because that is the spirit of the day! We accompanied Baptiste and Emilie (a young French couple working with France VIE) to Montigny - a small town on the outskirts of Paris - to see Baptiste play in an orchestra! It was a great time and later around 10pm we went into the heart of Paris to walk around and experience the full fledge activity. It was completely crazy but awesome; border line chaos and yet controlled! It was just neat to be able to experience something that is really community oriented and there were so many people out and about. The metro/trains run all night for it and we took advantage of that arriving home at 2:30 this morning :)

Anyway...we had French lessons with Emilie this morning and I was really encouraged by it and it was extremely beneficial being taught by a French national!