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Since 2008, Triton High School in Byfield, Massachusetts has forged links with the Lycée Saint François d’Assise in La Roche Sur Yon, Vendée, in the Loire Valley in France, thanks to the school matching program offered by the Services Cultural of the Embassy of France.

Every two years, a group of students from La Roche Sur Yon spend two enriching weeks with their two teachers in families of the Triton community during the All Saints’ holidays in France. During their stay in Massachusetts, French students study colonial America while enriching their language skills, attending lectures and building friendships with their correspondents and their American families.

Six months later, the American ambassadors traveled to France for two weeks in April. First, they spend four days in Paris making guided tours of the sites, museums, and monuments of Paris. Then they take the TGV to Nantes, and the train to La Roche Sur Yon, where their host families and their correspondents await them. During their stay as a family, American students study the Vendée of yesterday and today. They attend the course of their correspondents, and visit the Grand Parc Puy du Fou, the island Noirmoutier to cross the famous Passage du Gois and to make catamaran with their correspondents, Les Sables d’Olonne to see the port of the great departure of The Vendée Globe, the Abbey of Nieul on the Autize, the Green Venice, and the island of Yeu for biking.

Usually students are completely amazed by their experience on either side of the Atlantic, families often get along very well, and teachers are always happy to see how students and families continue to make efforts to extend our exchange And to deepen our dear Franco-American friendship.

This year, during their stay in France, the Americans had the opportunity to live the first round of the 2017 presidential elections!

 

Congratulations to the Triton Winter Guard for winning their Division’s New England Championship last weekend. This makes two titles in a row for the Vikings!! Great job, Winter Guard!

Three Triton High School Foreign Language National Honor Society members submitted work in French to the Société Honoraire de Français’ annual Creative Writing Contest.  Students selected for submission from Triton High School were: Kayla Bastolla, Abigail Booth, and Renee Dolloff.

The instructions for this years’ Creative Writing Contest, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French were as follows:

The topic for this year’s writing competition may be addressed in a variety of tenses. You may choose to respond to the questions in poetry, conversation, prose, or a combination thereof.

Vous avez à votre disposition une machine à remonter le temps.  Dans quelle époque irez-vous ? Pourquoi ?  ( You have at your disposal a machine to go back in time.  In what era will you go to? Why? )

Last year, there were 65 submissions to the annual SHF Creative Writing Contest.  This year, according to the AATF Société Honoraire de Français’ President, Abbe Guillet,  the essay review panel “had the pleasure of reading 84 delightful entries. We have submitted our rankings to L’Elan editor, Sharon Rapp, who will make the final decision and publish the winning entries later this Spring.”

Congratulations to each of the Triton High School Participants who received certificates for their original work!  We look forward to reading L’Elan this Spring,  and we hope to se their work published at that time!