We were the last people allowed into the Musée Orangerie, so aside from our group, there were only four or five other people in the museum. Monet had intended his artworks to be experienced in silence, and standing in front of a completely undisturbed stretch of his water lilies, I felt entirely immersed in the deep blues, pale pinks, and flower- strewn waters of his garden. This, overall quite lucky, day was finished with a trip to Montmartre, where Mr Bharadia, Ameiyah, Leia and I walked up to the Sacre Coeur while the others took the cable car. The view, the rainy cobbles of Montmartre at night, and the rich beef bourguignon that awaited me at the top were most certainly worth it. As for Saturday, many of the displays in the Immigration Museum felt deeply pertinent to the course, as us Year 13s are currently studying the theme of immigration, but there were also countless points of view and parts of the exhibit that I had never considered in depth before. The exhibition both developed my understanding of the A Level course and provided me with a deeper understanding of culture, immigration, and French history in general (something I found very exciting as a History student!) Equally fascinating was our next stop, the Père Lachaise cemetery, where we saw the graves of Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and Frederic Chopin, before a beautiful panoramic view of Paris at the
Tour Montparnasse and our delicious creperie dinner. We finished off the trip in what I would call the perfect way, traversing the older neighbourhood of Le Marais and the LGBT and Jewish neighbourhoods of Paris, before a self-indulgent shopping segment in Les Halles. I didn’t quite want to leave, and we are all so incredibly grateful to Mr Bharadia and Ms Summers for planning and taking all 13 of us on such a broad, enriching, and beautiful trip full of experiences that I will never forget! Merci beaucoup!
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