My favourite place

Le Robert Bay

 'Le Robert' is a town and the third largest commune in the French overseas department of Martinique. It is located in the northeastern, atlantic side of the island. It contains the Saint Rose de Lima Church, Club Nautique Wind Force, Stade Municipal of Robert and a sports Ground. The village of Hyacinthe lies in the commune. Robert is also housed the birth of famous NBA player; Ronny Turiaf. 

Area of Robert is 47,30 km2 for a population density of 508,84 habitants/km2. The housing statistics in Robert were 8809 in the last survey of 2007.

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Le Robert village

The last film I saw

The Last movie that I saw

SUICIDE SQUAD

Just before the Chrismas holidays, I found pleasure in watching the movie everyone had been bragging about, entitled Suicide Squad. The movie highlighted a secret government agency, led by the one and only; high ranking Amanda Waller who plans to assemble the worlds' most dangerous, incarcerated, super villains on the planet to execute on a mission to defeat a mysterious, supernatural entity. If anything goes wrong on this misson, the government will not be liable but rather, can place all the blame on the villains, who are already inherently evil people. A small bomb is implanted in each of the squads' neck with the capability of detonating at any time, If any of the members try to escape. It's left all up to them to prevail over this impossible mission that they are to forced to battle. Making this combat a serious ''suicide squad''.

While watching the movie, I was thrilled, had chills, even screammed a few times, but it was also very humerous and it's on of thoses movies that should be watched a few more times. I am yet to pick a favourite character, but the Joker is a very good option.

I honestly enjoyed this movie and I would encourage you to go and watch it at your nearest cinema. Although I saw it in the comfort of my own home, on a large cinema screen, with surround sound speakers is a totally different experience. I would even advise you to with a few tissue papers for the moments where you will be overwhelmed with pure laughter, because I know I needed it.

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The last movie I 've seen on TV was 'Home Alone' ('Maman j'ai raté l'avion'on the French screens). 

To sum up, it's about the McCallister family who has to take the plane to go to Paris to spend their Christmas vacations. They are so rushed that they didn't notice that they had forgotten their younger child Kevin aged 8. And it is once in place that they realize it but it's too late. This one at first is afraid, but is then going to take pleasure to have this big house only for himself. However, two thieves have decided to break into the house on Christmas day. Kevin makes traps to defeat the thieves.

I've enjoyed this film because it is full of suspense.

Quentin

The last film I saw was Creed, "L'héritage de Rocky Balboa" in French. It's a movie about boxing. The main characters are Michael B Jordan in the role of Adonis Johnson, Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson. I liked this movie because it is about the difficulty of a young man who wants to be a good boxer like his father, Apollo Creed who was a great boxer. The movie has a good morality and the characters are played by exceptional actors.

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Happy New Year 2017

Although you have a special New Year  coming soon in China,

 we wish you a happy new year 2017 !

Carmen

Carmen est un opéra français en quatre scènes crée par George Bizet. C’est une histoire à propos d’une jeune bohémienne qui s’appelle Carmen. Elle est tres charmante, et c’est pour cette raison qu’elle est adorée par tout le monde. Les hommes la veulent tous, mais, après d’avoir vu le jeune soldat Don José, La Carmencita lui donne une rose qui fait qu’il tombe complètement amoureux d’elle, et elle de lui. Il quitte son poste de Corporel et décide, de quitter son amie d’enfance de partir avec la bohémienne dans les montagnes en espérant qu’ils resteront toujours ensemble. Cependant, un autre homme, Escamillo, qui est un torero, tombe en coup de foudre quand il rencontre Carmen, et Don José doit quitter Carmen parce que son mère est devenu malade. Il retourne plus tard et il découvre que Carmen et Escamillo sont un couple alors il est jaloux. L’opéra se termine par Don José tue Carmen.

J’ai trouvé Carmen très excitant et fascinant. Je pense que le chanteur qui a joué Don José est très talentueux et j’ai aimé les costumes. J’ai pu comprendre le plus des mots français à l'opéra et dans l’avenir, peut-être je peux apprendre plus de français en regarde plus d’opéras françaises.

Christmas greetings

Drawings made by pupils from our school to wish you happy celebrations

On Thursday afternoon Dec 15, we sang Christmas carols at school. This tradition
has been brought to Martinique by settlers from Brittany and Normandy.
One of the pupils' father was the lead singer.

Everywhere we sing 'Christmas carols' we take this song book.

Santa Claus was one of the pupils, Jeremy.
Next to him, a teacher of history and geography, Mrs Beatrice De Chavigny

Martinique Chef Festival

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This year's 1st edition of the festival was held on the 14th to the 20th of November.

This annual event made Martinique the main French kitchen in the caribbean and gave a dynamic vision of Gastronomy in Martinique. Their precise objectives were to present the chefs of all ages and of all stars, the products of quality of the Caribbean, but mainly Martinique, and their ''know - how'' to cook in such a diverse kitchen.

I was extremely taken aback by Julia SEDEFDJIAN, a 21-year-old starred chef.

In 2012, Julia was yet to turn 18, but she had already secured her job at ''Fables de la Fontaine'', which is located in Paris's 7th district. This chic restaurant had made its reputation for the way they prepared their fish. She didn't have much of an option because she wanted to be an establishment with a good reputation and one that was starred. Julia was quickly accepted thanks to her Gold Medal in a Regional Competition, making her one of the best.

Born in December 1994, in 2015 she turns 20 and she now replaces Anthony David and therefore holds the temporary title of being a starred chef. Her boss is so delighted that on the 1st of February, in the middle of a busy kitchen, he comes down the staircase with a bouquet of flowers for Julia saying " I'm in front of the youngest starred chef of France.

One of Julia's desserts in Le Simon Hotel, Fort de France

Stephane

From November 14 to 20 the Martinique Chef Festival took place. This year the special guest was Babette de Rozière, a French TV host from Guadeloupe. She created the gastronomy show of the overseas in Paris and she's become an ambassador of Caribbean gastronomy.

There were a lot of other great chefs like Marcel Ravin and Jean-Charles Bredas who are from Martinique and Stephano Meschini, Julia Sedefdjian, Hermance Cabro, Claire Veneil, Denny Imbroisi etc...

During the week there were many dinners and tasting but also some conferences about gastronomy.

Chef Babette de Rozière

                    Chef Marcel Ravin from Martinique in the centre

Jean Charles Brédas from Martinique

One of JC Brédas's dishes

Quentin

Martinique chef festival is a main event  for our island.

Its goal is to make Martinique the 1st gastronomic destination of the Caribbean and to present some chefs, the quality products and the know-how of Martinique. This festival started on  Nov 14th and ended on Nov 20th.

I have chosen to talk to you about a chef who attended that festival : his name is Pascal Favre d'Anne.

He is from Savoie and he has started cooking at Marc Veyrat's restaurant in Annecy, then at the Embassy of France in Bogota.

In September 2006, Pascal Favre d'Anne and his wife Mathilde decided to open their own restaurant in Angers, the "Favre d'Anne".

In 2008, he was elected 'Younger Talent 2008' in the Gault et Millau guide. He obtained his 1st star in the Michelin guide and is elected 'Younger Chef of the Year' by the  Pudlo guide. Always wearing his green jacket, he is an artist and a craftsman.

Chef Pascal Favre d'Anne

His  beef and lobster tapas

It's AIDS Day today

The school nurse and volunteers from different classes sensitised us to the HIV infection. We wore red instead of our usual uniform to match AIDS colour, just for that day.
In France, today also is the day reserved for communicating around genetic diseases and collecting money for research. The pupils who took care of it wore yellow T-shirts. They organised a 'téléthon' with  murals in the hall for this occasion.