Spring blossoms

What a wonderful hour for coffee-time we spent in a blossoming garden, with our American "assistant" (who has been a teachers’ aid for seven months in Bordeaux) before she goes back to the States.

Here are several words we learnt, either in French or in English :

We spoke about her state, Michigan, and the gifts she treated us with :

• a special map in wood and

• dried cherries from the Cherry Republic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michigan_1718.jpg Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi by Guillaume de L’Isle, 1718

HOME-WORK FOR NEXT TIME : vocabulary

• dried cherries
• pistachios
• cranberries
• macadamias

Finally, we asked her lots of questions about which vegetables her grand-father was having in his garden.

• zucchinis
• eggplants
• parsley
• basil