{"id":3478,"date":"2014-12-01T12:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2014-12-01T12:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T10:47:53","slug":"editorial-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/2014\/12\/01\/editorial-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial : November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Readers,<\/p>\n

Our students have already been in Toulouse for three months, and for most of them they have just a few weeks left in the Pink City.\u00a0 That’s why it is precisely the moment to take advantage of and enjoy everything Toulouse has to offer! You’ll see that that is exactly what our students did this past month!<\/p>\n

We left the city of Toulouse to visit the March\u00e9 au Gras de P\u00e9chabou, a village 14 km southeast of the Greater Toulouse Area in Lauragais.\u00a0 The march\u00e9 au gras is an annual market that specializes in duck and other types of poultry, but we can also find other products that are typical of the region and season. In addition to food, we can discover local artisans and their work.\u00a0 The students participated in the market by sharing American delicacies of the season like Apple Pie, smores, brownies and Pumpkin Pie that they made themselves. They ran the stand well, talking with the other market-goers and selling their desserts.\u00a0 They were such good salesmen and women that they were able to go out that night with their earnings!<\/p>\n

\"Les<\/a>

Les \u00e9tudiants de Dickinson et leur stand au March\u00e9 au gras de P\u00e9chabou.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since this year commemorates the centenary of the First World War, the Dickinson team incorporated Histoire du soldat<\/em>, a play presented at Odyssud, in our cultural outings. Before the show, we visited the Toile du Front<\/em> exposition, which is based on the conception and production of Marc M\u00e9nager’s short film Fire Waltz<\/em>,\u00a0 an animated film where musical creativity affronts the First World War.<\/p>\n

We cannot talk about November without mentioning Thanksgiving. A very dear holiday to Americans, we celebrated together at a neighborhood restaurant that prepared a French menu for us inspired by typical Thanksgiving ingredients.<\/p>\n

Our Thanksgiving \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise<\/em> included a savory pumpkin crumble, tarragon Cornish hen, and for dessert a honey sesame pear tart.<\/p>\n

\"Repas<\/a>

Repas de Thanksgiving<\/p><\/div>\n

Two students participated in the “Thanksgiving Cook-off” organized by the United States Consulate and the Atelier des chefs in Toulouse.\u00a0 Read what Shelby and Jessica have to say:<\/p>\n

\"img_3184-2\"<\/a>Shelby\u00a0: It really was like the show\u00a0 \u00ab Chopped \u00bb where the participants receive mysterious boxes filled with ingredients. We were in three groups of three, and we had an hour and a half to prepare a Thanksgiving meal.\u00a0 I had a nice time with my team. We cooked a sweet corn pur\u00e9e, cranberry sauce, grilled potatoes and sweet potatoes, and nuggests with polenta, walnuts and hazelnuts.\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Jessica : My team made chicken nuggets with cornflakes and spices, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoe pur\u00e9e and cranberry sauce. Afterwards, the judges tasted everybody’s plate, my team won!<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lastly, this past weekend the students completed their integration into the Pink City by tackling a very important element of the culture of Toulouse – rugby!\u00a0 Stade Toulousain played against Grenoble in the rain, supported by relentless fans, two of whom were so enthusiastic that they tried to particpate in the game by running onto the field naked. Unfortunately, the fans’ cheers were not enough and luck was not on our side. In the last minute Grenoble took the victory with three points.<\/p>\n

\"Stade<\/a>

Stade Toulousain vs Grenoble<\/p><\/div>\n

Needless to say, this was a very busy month for Dickinson in France!\u00a0 I’ll let you continue reading to find out what students have to say about the month of November!<\/p>\n

Enjoy,<\/p>\n

Julia<\/p>\n

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Dear Readers, Our students have already been in Toulouse for three months, and for most of them they have just a few weeks left in the Pink City.\u00a0 That’s why it is precisely the moment to take advantage of and enjoy everything Toulouse has to offer! You’ll see that that is exactly what our students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-la-une-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/toulouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}