Science in Paris

Hello! Today I went to a science museum! It's called Cité des Sciences. Sorry,no translation because it's obvious.

First we checked in. Second we got tickets. Then we walked in the 5 – 12 years section and had fun! We went to the movie-making section and I read a small script on a small screen in front of me in a funny British accent, and when I finished it replayed the tape on the screen. Also, there was a control room for six special effect tapes. One room had a rock band with fake guitars, pianos, and drums. But on the movie screen, it all looked real.

The next room had a fake car, and there was a background of a road as if the car was actually moving. Someone recorded the scene in the back of a moving car, and once he finished the tape, he put it in the museum behind the fake car. It makes it look like the fake car is actually a real car moving. 

Next, we went to a green room with a carpet on a ramp in front of three small tv monitors. The monitor made the green room look like a snowy mountain. The second monitor which was right in front me showed me on the carpet with the mountain background, and it looked as if I were on a flying carpet. The third monitor was of me on the carpet in the green room with no mountain background. The screens were combined to make the special effects. What’s really funny is that you can step off the carpet and it looks like you’re standing in midair!

There were two more special effect rooms, but that’s a bit too much to type.

The Nature Butterfly room

The Ant Mound area

The Ant Restaurant (not the cemetery). The Ant Cemetery goes to the right.

There was also a water room where you could experiment with water pressure and plastic balls and other objects.

This is a tube that makes a ball shoot out the other end with air pressure. Somehow, this malfunctioned and it shot out and hit my face about 2 seconds after this picture.  I fell on my derriere!

The last room was more or less a machine room where you could design a blueprint, and a machine could craft a foldable paper box for you. I just followed the instructions after the machine crafted my box, and voila! I had an original cute, fancy box!

Here, I'm designing my box.

I was just about to go to a new room when they announced the closing of the museum. Sniff sniff. We’ll have to go back again to finish.

French word of the Day

Vache (pronounced vosh): cow.

I learned this funny sentence from my Papa: "Je parle le francais comme une vache espanole." (which means, I speak French like a Spanish cow.) hee hee.

French Fact of the Day

Late at night, the Eiffel Tower shines a bright yellow. And once every hour, it sparkles a pretty blue for one minute. 

I have a 3DS, and so do other French kids out there. 3DS has something called “Street Pass” where you get new Mii friends when you pass them on the street. I have several French friends now and their Mii’s help me complete new games. Here’s a picture of Luigi and the 1-Up Mushroom:

Now, it’s time for you to find the 1-Up Mushroom!

Last picture: my dessert last night. 

The weekend in Paris

Hello Everybody! Welcome back to my third blog post.

I'm glad to see you again. Today, I went to the Galeries d'Anatomie comparée et de Paléontologie  (Galleries of Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology), in other words, a Skeleton Museum. It actually had human and animal body parts and some freaks of nature in formaldehyde. But I'll show the freaks of nature last.

First, I made my beloved Mama a Mother's Day card, but it was in the late afternoon because I spent my whole morning playing on video games instead of writing my Mama a card, so when we were about to go to the museum, I asked if I could have a bit more time so that I could write the card, but she said no, and I got a bit pouty for about 15 minutes. I got over it, and I learned my lesson. Love before games.

We went to the Galleries. Here is what I saw. First up, we saw animal skeletons. A lot of them.

Entrance

Man and Apes

You have to look at such Design!

Skeletonized giraffe...looks scary!

Skeleton hummingbirds...how cute! (and a bit scary)

Don't you agree with me?

An Elephant. Not long ago, at night, a burglar came in this very place and sawed the tusk off this skeleton to sell it for money. Elephant tusks are quite expensive and illegal to sell. But fortunately, the man was caught by cameras and cops were literally waiting outside the door for the burglar. Now, they are trying to repair the tusk, and that's why it has a bandage.

A baleen whale,  with its baleen still there! The most amazing thing I learned was that its reproductive parts each weigh one ton!!!!

some animal's stomach!

A human right lung is larger than the left lung, at least I think.

The biggest one on top is the blue whale.

Now we go to the second floor, the dinosaur floor.

giant shell and antlers!

My, what big antlers you have! The better to knock you over with!

Last, the "monsters" or the "freaks of nature"! This is a two-headed baby lamb.

A skull of another two-headed animal

This is a skeleton of two lambs that were born stuck together. On the right you see a model of what it looked like.  Poor animals!

Now it's time for Find the 1-Up Mushroom!
Please leave your answer where it is. (I have a special gift waiting for you when I return if you find the most 1-Up Mushrooms.)

Where's the mushroom?

Thanks for reading!
Julien Rémy

The Market at rue Belgrand

salted cod

tuna and salmon

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squid 

crab and seaweed

done shopping!

Belleville Parc Surprise

Hello again! Today I went to a parc called Belleville! Before I start, I would like to note parc is park in French. So, as I was saying, I went to a parc called Belleville, which is a wonderful park that has free climbing, free going on a huge fort, and free going down a slide.

The slide is what's most important in Belleville. The slide is huge. It's probably 20 meters long (65 feet). Now, I went down the slide 5 or 6 times, and on the last time I went down the slide, I wasn't very happy. It turns out that I unfortunately slid through something greenish yellow and brown. It got all over my clothes. It got on my shirt, on my jacket sleeve, on my jeans, and on my FACE! At first, I thought it was mud. Then, I thought it was dog poo. My heart sank. So I went to my Mama to show her, in hopes that it was not dog poo. And when I talked to her, guess what? It wasn't dog poop.

It was worse.

It was pigeon diarrhea.

My heart sank down and fell out my ribs. So I had an exhausting walk to the Metro, which was far away, to go back to my apartment to take a shower. It felt refreshing, but also felt a bit gross.

More pictures!

real stinky cheese, but yummy

sardines and anchovies

Me talking with Papa

Notre Dame de la Croix (Our Lady of the Cross) not too far away--not the big Notre Dame

French word of the day:
embarrassé: To feel embarrassed. I felt embarrassé when I walked to the Metro with bird poo on my hand.

Little known French fact :
The ground floor number is known as zero instead of the first floor.

Game Time!!!
 Find the 1-up mushroom!!!

 

Thank you for reading!
Julien Rémy

First Things First.

Hello everyone! I'm in Paris but let's start in London shall we?

We took a train called The Tube, but it's your normal subway. If you're in France, the subway is called le Metro. First we went to the Courtauld Gallery. 

We looked around and I soon saw a portrait of Van Gogh. Mama said there's a legend where he cut off part of his ear and mailed it to his girl friend because he was sad that he broke - up with her. His girl friend must have hated Van Gogh even more if you ask me. Poor guy.

Then we went and saw Big Ben, I'm not so sure why they don't  call it Big Benjamin.    

Big Ben

Old timey telephone booth

The Thames River

Then we flew to Paris!! 

On the plane, I did 16 math problems in 1 hour. And one more thing: isn't that thing supposed to be in a Mario game? It's crawling on me!

A One-Up Mushroom containing sour candies

This is your French word of the day:
Marcher comme un mort vivant (marshay come un more veev-on)--This means "to walk like a zombie."
I was walking comme un mort vivant because I was so tired in London because I barely got any sleep, I was hungry, and my stomach was cramping.

Little known French Fact of the day:
In a lot of French houses, the bathroom with the sink and shower has no toilet. The toilet is in some other part of the house because the French don't want their bathroom to get stinky.

Get a 1-Up:
I'm doing something new this time!

A game! Find the 1-up mushroom in my photograph below and leave a comment with the right answer to get a 1-up point. Whoever gets the most points by first finding the mushrooms will get a Present From France at the end of my stay! (I'll mail it to you in June.)
Look at the mushroom I have in my hand.





Can you find the mushroom in the picture below:

Thanks for reading!
Julien Rémy

I Love Paris

I'm going to Paris in a little over a week.
I'm doing this blog again because I'm missing a month of school while I'm in Paris, and I want to be sure I can share what's happening to me. I will miss my friends and teachers because they're really nice ones and I'll have to wait a couple of months to see them again.
To all my class friends in Mrs. Deem's class, I would really like you to read this blog because I'll miss you and want to hear from you.

Au revoir! (good bye!)
Julien Rémy