Wednesday at Lycée Saint Marc by Christopher Murphy (Wednesday, 29 May)

 1. Class with my exchange student

Class was weird today because I did not have any. I came in at 8:00 this morning and played a video game called Brawl Stars. I am trying to become a better video game player than the French exchange students who play all of the time. Luckily my exchange student lives very close to the school. Only a three minute walk away. So he was able to take me to school and then go back home.


2. Illusions Museum


The first thing that we did today was see the museum of illusions which is very close to our school Lycée de Saint Marc. We arrived a little early for the museum so we had some time to burn. We ended up walking around and we found something to eat at Pret à manger. It is a healthy snack shop that sells yogurt and pastries and some smoothies. After that we went to the museum. We were the first ones there as it opened at 10:00am and that is when we showed up. We walked around the museum for many hours looking at all of the illusions. There were many mind boggling ones but one stood out above all; it was the spinning tunnel illusion. I will try to explain this illusion but you would have to see it to believe it. This illusion is a straight walkway that has a spinning painted circular wall around it. This wall was spinning super fast. It took a while for the illusion to set in but once it did it was super cool. I had to walk through the illusion one time before I started to feel it. After the illusion sets in you feel like you are walking on a platform that is tilted and also you feel that you are falling you think that you are falling more the more that you stay in the illusion. Finally you come out the other side and you do not feel the illusion anymore. There were some other illusions that I thought were cool such as the ones with pictures.


3. The ropes course


This was the second activity of the day for us. It was pretty far away so we had to take a long train ride to get there. Once we got there we found a course hidden in the woods. We went on this journey with our exchange students because they finished school early today. Once we got to the ropes course we found that there were five different levels of difficulty, the easiest being green and the hardest being black. I completed the black red and orange, which are the three hardest ones. We were at the course for almost three hours with our exchange. It was pretty fun but it was a little tiring. For the last thirty minutes many of us just sat down and talked among ourselves.


4. Time with our exchange students


Our time was very fun. We got to go play soccer on the outskirts of Lyon with almost everyone from the exchange. We lost to some random French kids but it was fun. After that most of the group left and it was just myself, Oliver, Andrew, Johnathan, and Conner because all of our exchange students are good friends. Myself and my exchange student Antoine both forgot our stuff at the soccer field so before we went on the train we went and got it. We took the train all the way to a French McDonalds which is much better than the American McDonalds. This is because all of the ingredients are bought from French farmers and not American ones. In France high fructose corn syrup is illegal and many dangerous pesticides also. Then we went back home and on our walk back we saw a palestine protest with police tear gassing the crowd at the Place Bellecour.







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