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Voir Barcelone ou mourir !<br />

Barcelona or Bust!<br />

La Sagrada familia de Gaudí |<br />

Gaudí's Sagrada familia<br />

La pluie a beau, en Espagne, tomber principalement sur les<br />

plaines, l’école franco-espagnole <strong>Le</strong> Bon Soleil brille de tous ses<br />

feux, juste en bordure de Barcelone, et les élèves de Seconde et de<br />

Première de la FASNY en ont fait l’expérience de leurs propres<br />

yeux. « C’est la première fois que nous mettons sur pied un<br />

programme de ce genre, explique Anne Wassen, le pr<strong>of</strong>esseur<br />

d’espagnol qui a aidé à coordonner le programme.<br />

Ce fut une superbe occasion<br />

d’aller à<br />

Tout le monde se retrouve au Parque Guëll<br />

| Everyone at Parque Guëll<br />

Barcelone, ville que les élèves<br />

ont adorée. Quand ils sont sortis de l’avion, ils ne<br />

pouvaient pas croire à quel point la ville baignait dans la chaleur<br />

et la lumière, sans parler de tous les palmiers ! »<br />

Treize élèves de la FASNY ont fait partie de ce long périple<br />

exotique de dix jours : Jasmine Arnould ’09, Ludivine Baugier ’09,<br />

Victoire de Neufville ’09, Flaam Hardy ’09, Charlie Javice ’10,<br />

Terence Michel ’10, Marie-Lilas Onanga ’10, Stéphanie Roux ’09,<br />

Myriam Varjacques ’10, Léah Varjacques ’10, Quentin Voquer ’09,<br />

Clémence Wiart ’09, et Noore Yazigi ’09. Et Mme Wassen était<br />

bien sûr accompagnée de sa collègue hispanophone Raquel Fontaine.<br />

« J’étais déjà allée en Espagne, raconte Stéphanie Roux. Mon<br />

grand-père a longtemps possédé un appartement à Torre d’embarra et<br />

nous avions l’habitude de nous y rendre tous les étés. Mais, pour la<br />

première fois, cette fois-ci, j’étais très angoissée à l’idée de rencontrer<br />

nos correspondants espagnols. » Heureusement pour Stéphanie, comme<br />

pour la plupart de nos adolescents, elle a, de ses propres mots, adoré sa<br />

The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but the<br />

French-Spanish school, <strong>Le</strong> Bon Soleil, shines brightly just<br />

outside <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, and last February, FASNY 10th and<br />

11th graders got to experience it firsthand. “It’s the first<br />

time we’ve ever had a program like this,” said Anne<br />

Wassen, a FASNY Spanish teacher who helped<br />

coordinate the program. “It was such a nice opportunity<br />

and the students loved Barcelona; when they got <strong>of</strong>f the<br />

plane, they just couldn’t believe how warm and sunny it<br />

was, plus all <strong>of</strong> the palm trees!”<br />

On this 10-day exotic excursion were 13 FASNY<br />

Spanish students: Jasmine Arnould ’09, Ludivine Baugier<br />

’09, Victoire de Neufville ’09, Flaam Hardy ’09, Charlie<br />

Javice ’10, Terence Michel ’10, Marie-Lilas Onanga ’10,<br />

Stéphanie Roux ’09, Myriam Varjacques ’10, Léah<br />

Varjacques ’10, Quentin Voquer ’09, Clémence Wiart ’09,<br />

and Noore Yazigi ’09. And, <strong>of</strong> course Anne was there along<br />

with fellow teacher Raquel Fontaine. “I had been to Spain<br />

before. My grandfather used to own an apartment in Torre<br />

d’embarra, and we would go there every summer,”<br />

Stéphanie Roux said. “But, at first on this trip, I was very<br />

nervous; I was hoping that we would get along with the<br />

Spanish students.” Luckily, for Stéphanie, as with most <strong>of</strong><br />

the FASNY students, she said she loved her host-family.<br />

“My host-family was great. I didn’t see my host-parents<br />

very <strong>of</strong>ten because they worked, but when I did, they were<br />

very nice. My host-brother, Antonio, was a little shy at first,<br />

but after, he started opening up and treating me like one <strong>of</strong><br />

his best friends. It made all the difference.”<br />

So, what was a day like in the life <strong>of</strong> a FASNY<br />

student during the trip? An excerpt from Flaam Hardy’s<br />

journal — translated from the original Spanish — can<br />

give you a better perspective: “We visited the southern<br />

part <strong>of</strong> Barcelona on a tour-bus…We went to El Poblé…<br />

I loved it…Then we took the bus to Puerto Vell (I think)…<br />

where we ate paella. It was a very sunny day. Then, we<br />

went back to the beach where we bought Jasmine a<br />

birthday gift. Later, we all went to Mariola’s house…”<br />

Ms. Wassen said that when it came time to leave, she<br />

could sense that FASNY students were a bit melancholy,<br />

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