Written by Jakob Grzesik and Emma Burdett to recount March 3, 2015:

Today marked the third day of NA’s French exchange and our last day in the region of Normandy. After finishing breakfast and packing up, we hopped onto the travel bus and set out for our first stop of the day: Les Sablés d’Asnelles. Here, we learned about a tradition of pastry making that has existed since 1904 along with the French terminology associated with the process. In fact, we even got to make our own yummy cookies and taste them! The owner of Les Sablés d’Asnelles was very welcoming and took extra time to speak slowly to make sure that we could understand him.

Afterwards, we had an excursion to our second stop: La Ferme de Billy. Like at our previous stop, we learned how the farm harvested, juiced, and fermented their apples in order to produce the cidres they sold.

When the tour of the apple farm was over, we were invited to sample some apple juice and cidre. Upon finishing these samples we returned to the bus and set off towards Paris.

Four hours and a memorable stop at a gas station later, we arrived in Paris. Despite the rain caused by the Warsaw Effect, everyone was excited by the streets of Paris and the sight of the Eiffel Tower!  At around 6:40, we arrived at St. Dominique and reunited with our exchange partners.

The group of American students then parted ways to stay with their host families and have dinner with them.