Another Update

Tuesday we took a much appreciated tour of Le Havre. Of course it required a lot of walking, but it definitely proved useful when on thursday we were left with a lot of free time to wander the city for shopping and eating.
Our tour, or "Rallye dans Le Havre" consisted of stopping at some major landmarks such as a park with odd shaped bird statues, the Volcan, and the Charles de Gual statue.





After we visited these Le Havre landmarks (which took us quite a while considering some of us have the shortest attention span ever, making us stop at all the litle playgrounds on the way), we stopped at a small cafe for chocolat chaud and a few people like Ilona and Caroline ordered some delicious ice cream as well.



Yesterday we went to the Memorial in Caen, and Dr. Rockwell being the excellent history teacher that she is, was very excited for us to learn. The way everything was set up was very interesting, there was so much thought put into the building. The first part consisted of a downward spiral, which became darker as you kept walking down. This symbolized the failure of peace and stability. In another room that started the "Total War" segment was very bright, and your eyes had to adjust after exiting from the dark ages. This meant that the end was in sight and everyone was ready for it.







The rooms were filled with information and videos, all that gave most of us goosebumps. We passed blueprints of the concentration camps and even a wall that was actually the gas chambers. One thing Rene found really interesting was the different colors of parachutes (green for weapons, blue for medicine, and yellow for food).

After going through both World War II and the Cold War, we all decided to go out and visit the American Garden and the Canadian garden, although we all found the Canadian garden to be not as grand as the American Garden. We walked around there for an hour or so before we had to leave, and we welcomed the sun so it was almost warm enough to take off our northfaces. The weather here has been very rainy and quite cold, but definitely not as cold as Buffalo was when we left.