Dessine-moi un mouton!

This is going to be a relatively short post, but I really wanted to write it! So... hopefully you will bear with me! Today we read an excerpt from "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. For those of you who have read it, we read the part when the pilot first meets the Little Price and the Little Prince demands the pilot to draw him a sheep (Dessine- moi un mouton). The first time I read this book, I was sitting on a blue couch at River Avenue with the entire Culpepper Family; reading a book in French, that we really didn't understand, but we would plug along. Reading passages, translating them, reading, figuring out what everything meant. Today, as we read the passage, I didn't even need to ask what any of the words meant because I still remembered most, if not all of the words. For example, it escapes me now, but the word for "rubbing one's eyes" was on the page, and I was the only one who knew that! I distinctly remember looking up words in our dictionaries, and slowly but surely unraveling the story that was "Le Petit Prince".

Its always funny to revisit something that you were so familier with when you were younger, when you are older. We had to have a class discussion about it afterwords, and I still remembered all of the things that I had discovered so many years ago. So many great things come from that book. If you haven't read it, I really suggest you do.

The countdown, has counted-down much faster than I would have liked. Sadly, I have only 3 days left in Paris. Happily, I will be home in Rhode Island, soaking up some sun and eating all of my Rhode Island favorites before returning to Syracuse! I can't believe this has all gone so quickly, as it always does.

I'll leave you with a Little Prince...

"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."

* Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.*

Bisous,
Amy