World of Coca-Cola

On August 2010, I visited the Coke museum at Atlanta (Georgia) with my American family. Indeed, this museum named “World of Coca-Cola” is dedicated to the fizzy drink invented by the chemist John Pemberton on 1885. At beginning, I saw giant coke bottles that are decorated, and then I watched a cartoon with same characters of the advertising “Open a Coke, open happiness”. Besides, I saw machines which serve to make Coca-Cola but I didn’t saw all the fabrication. We saw a lot of stuffs of lots of countries dedicated to this drink like distributor, poster, cars, Olympic torches …and art objects, there was a thing made by French artist Ben, and a couch was used on the set of American Idol Season Four in 2005. Moreover, I watched advertisings that from different countries, and a 3D movie with a seat which moved, that was so funny!

At the end, we could taste a lot of different drink of Coke firm that from different country. Nestea Tea Peach represented France, my little American brother loved it. I tasted all the drink, some drinks are delicious but others have taste of medicine, and after drank more than sixty drinks, I fall sick! To finish, I could take a special Coke bottle and I bought several keys-imac and a glass to drink Coca-Cola, of course!

To conclude, I loved going to this museum because I like Coca-Cola and that was a very good moment past with my American family.

Corsica

During my All-Saints vacation I spent a week traveling through Corsica. I had many pleasant surprises.
 The scenery was fantastic. In the lower altitudes it's mostly bush land but in the hills there are forests of taller pine trees. We could often see the ocean and snow covered mountains in the same view.    The ocean is very beautiful. The water is very clear.  On a boat trip we could see the seafloor through many meters of water.

    The Corsicans love their land and take care of it. There is no garbage on the ground.

    All along the coast there are many small, isolated, beautiful bays. The only way to get to them is by boat that is why in all the towns there are many sailboats at dock.

    All along the coast you can see some of the nine hundred watch towers dating from the period when Corsica was often attacked by pirates.

    I walked on some of the GR20 footpath. It is a famous track that crosses all Corsica. The walk was very difficult but the scenery was very rewarding.

    I went to Bonifacio which is on the extreme southern coast. From there we could see Sardinia very well, only nine kilometers away (six miles). The city is built on a huge limestone cliff.   There is a huge stairway carved into the cliff that goes from the city down to the water.   Legend says that King Louis of Aragon possessed all of Corsica except Bonifacio.  He laid siege to the fortified city.  Before their resistance he decided to build a stairway on the cliff to climb up the wall to the city in one night!  In the morning when they were two meters from the city some ladies heard the picks and sounded the alarm.  But in reality it was built by the Bonifaciens to have access to the fresh water spring next to the ocean.

It was a wonderful trip on a wonderful island.  I'm so glad about all I did but there are surely many more things to discover there.

James B

Improve your Australian culture

Australia is situated in the Southern hemisphere.So, when it's winter in France, it's summer in Australia !

The capital  city of Australia is Canberra.
Sidney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Newcastle are the largest cities.
Australia has a population about twenty million people.
This country is called « The Land Down Under », because it is situated below the equator.
There is the British flag on the upper left corner of the Australian flag to remember the ties which link G. Band Australia. In fact, Australia used to be the place where english prisoners were sent in the 18° century.
The five stars represent the Southern cross constallation, which is a major navigational constellation in the Southern Hemisphere ; because Australia is the only place where you can observe it.
The Commonwealth star symbolize the original the original States of Australia (at the number of 7).


The currency in « The Land Down Under » is the Australian dollar.
The Aborigines are the first Australians.

The black of the Aboriginal flag represents the Aboriginal people.
The red represents the earth and their spiritual relationship to the land.
The yellow represents the sun, the giver of life.
The « Didgeridoo » is a long wooden flute.


New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea.
The boomerang was used for hunting.
The Aboriginal name of Ayers Rock is « Uluru », and it's important for the Aborigines because  for them, it's a sacred mountain.
The Outback is the midle part of Australia.
In the Outback, there are some sheeps, cattle ranches, and very few inhabitants

The Flying Doctors are  an air  ambulance service for people who live in the Outback : the most extensive desert of the country.
It's an organisation which provides both emergency assistance and primary health care to people who cannot easily acces an hospital.
Alice Spring School of the Air is a compulsary aged correspondence school that uses various communications technologies to have daily contacts with students, home tutors and teachers (in remote Australian places in particular).
Sydney  is the largest and most populous city in Australia and the state capital of 
With an approximate population of 4.5 million in the Sydney metropolitan area the city is the largest in Oceania.
Inhabitants of Sydney are called Sydneysiders, comprising a cosmopolitan and international population of people from numerous places around the world.


One of Australia's most remarkable natural gifts, the Great Barrier Reef is blessed with the breathtaking beauty of the world's largest coral reef. The reef contains an abundance of marine life and comprises of over 3000 individual reef systems and coral cays and literally hundreds of picturesque tropical islands with some of the worlds most beautiful sun-soaked, golden beaches.


Well, as conclusion, we can say that Australia people are very sporty in general : in fact, they usually practice rugby of course, with the team of « The Wallabies », but also cricket (more than in France), soccer boomerang or Australian Rules Football in particular.

THANK FOR YOUR READING !
J