by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
ometimes there’s a short word of interest, a short blog post, a short short story. Alors is one of those words in French. A cursory search for a definition (i.e. asking Prof. Google) gives us the English equivalent as “so.” Well, this will be a very short...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jan 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
he women are still walking! Our tour guide extraordinaire, Chris Friendly, a teacher and historian who lives in Paris, has created walking tours unlike the usual ones found in the usual guidebooks. He points out that a walking tour “covers 6,000 eccentric...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jan 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
ighlights of a walking tour set us firmly on Paris ground, courtesy of historian, teacher and modern-day wit, Chris Friendly. Chris has developed a series of walks in Paris and when the pandemic is over, we will seek him out to lead us on interesting and...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Jan 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
once held a session in a computer lab for students learning English. It was a poetry lesson, and we called up pictures of the northern lights for inspiration. Each screen had a different picture of the northern lights. It was very satisfying, although it was in a...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
ome French friends and I were recently discussing the idea of the commonwealth of a country. France thinks differently about the common good, with a less rigid focus on the extraordinary individual at the expense of the worthy person, namely all of us. As...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
hristmas markets, ah, one of the great pleasures of living in Europe. One of my favorites is a little market near Notre Dame on the Quais de Montebello in Paris. Toys and gifts are made by hand. You hear a French homage to an American homage to rock and roll. Not very...