Bonjour

hello! I'm sorry i haven't really been doing my blog, but I've been really busy these last few days. I've been going to summer school, so I'm learning new french words every day. J'aime le musee! Today we went to a chateau, just outside of Paris. It's where all those french royalty went to spend a little time hunting. But this wasn't like a log cabin...it was a full on castle! I couldn't believe my eyes when we got there, but I couldn't believe my feet either. We had just spent 2 and a half hours walking, stopping only to figure out where we were and to eat a crepe.
The castle belonged to Charles the 5th, a king of France. He had it built as an escape from the royal castle. There were all these little rooms, that he used ONLY FOR HIMSELF. All this time while I'm going around this beautiful castle looking at all these humongo rooms for King Charles, I wonder, where did everybody else sleep?

In the late 1600's, the castle was converted into prisoners. These prisoners are famous, because of one thing. GRAFFITI. Yes, 500 year old graffiti was carved all over the place! In the first room we went to, we were all stunned at how beautiful the wall art is. WE look over to the info sign, and it talks about how all of the wonderful paintings and such were done by prisoners. Ancient ancient graffiti is pretty cool.
We took the metro home, which only lasted us 15 minutes. Thankfully, I'm becoming quite a commuter and brought my book. I hope any of you come to France on a vacation, this walk and castle is a MUST DO.

well that's about it!

ttfn!
sophie