A YEAR LATER

Just one year ago, on May 9th 2015, this group of Université Inter-Ages en Dauphiné (UIAD) students left Grenoble, France to discover Louisiana during 9 days.  What a wonderful trip it was!
http://uiadinlouisiana.blogspot.fr/2015/03/1-d-61-introduction.html was born on March 9th, 2015.  Anyone can return to this blog, which was created to prepare us for the trip and then to share some of our photos and impressions after we returned.  What good memories!  And what a pleasant way to practice English!  

Here's another link to take you back to Louisiana's history...and other places...and to keep you using your English.
http://projects.voanews.com/lewis-clark/

After reading/listening to this VOA article, continue reading here about The Louisiana Purchase and The Lewis and Clark Expedition, The Oregon Trail-->

Called the Louisiana Purchase (1803), this area included much of what are now the 15 states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) passed close to the Yellowstone region with no evident awareness of the thermal features hidden there.
John Colter, a former member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who remained in the mountains made an epic winter journey (1807-1808) which took him through the Yellowstone region. 
Later, many emigrants would cross what is now the state of Wyoming along The Oregon Trail.

Wouldn't it be interesting to go to this land of Craig Johnson, the American mystery crime writer (Walt Longmire) we met when he came to Grenoble early April this year?   
The West, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park. 
I think it's time to start thinking about another trip, in 2017.
Anyone interested?

The Louis and Clark Expedition


The Oregon Trail

Yellowstone National Park

Goodbye Louisiana.
Hello Wyoming.
Jane
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--awareness = the knowledge of something  --> "He had no awareness of his mistakes."
--features =  a prominent part or characteristic --> "This camera has several features that make it easy to use."

La rentrée = Back to school

LAGNIAPPE, as we have seen, means "something extra".  If you remember, after our return from Louisiana, I added something extra: photos, video, and commentaries made by the group members.

Then summer came and the blog went on vacation too.

I'll be returning shortly to officially end this blog, but for now, here's a little more "lagniappe" : some English reading and listening before Uiad students return to their English classes.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/ten-years-after-hurrican-katrina-new-orleans-is-a-different-city/2936755.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpe_aOB6PNk


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34100538

Jane

Lagniappe from Agnès (16)

Remember:  "Lagniappe" means "something extra."
Here is something extra from Agnès.
She prepared this power point presentation of the Mississippi River just after we returned from Louisiana.  I apologize for taking so long to learn how to put it on the blog.
It is very interesting.  Take a look.

http://www.slideshare.net/JaneSheldonBaile/2015-05-25-mississipi-time-memory
Thank you very much Agnès.

And at the same time, let me wish all those concerned by this very American day a "Happy 4th of July."

A special day for the Mississippi River in New Orleans too:
http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/seasonal/fourthofjuly.html  
http://www.louisianatravel.com/articles/july-4th-louisiana 


Jane

Lagniappe 15 … Théo's photos

We'll leave the Sculpture Garden, but before we do, one more student wants to share the photos he took there.
Thank you Théo.

Jane

Lagniappe (14) Michèle the photographer

Still in the Sculpture Garden.  Michèle's photos, some from a different angle.

Thank you Michèle.

Jane

Sculpture Garden Lagniappe (13)

It is vacation time, but the blog lives on.
Thank you Marc for sending me these photos you took in the NOMA Sculpture Garden on May 12th, 2015.
Marc adds the information from NOMA's website.

Sculpture Park in the City Park of New Orleans

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden occupies approximately five acres in City Park adjacent to the museum.  Atypical of most sculpture gardens, this garden is located within a mature existing landscape of pines, magnolias and live oaks. The garden design creates outdoor viewing spaces within this picturesque landscape. A reconfigured lagoon bisects the site and creates two distinct halves: a mature pine and magnolia grove adjacent to the museum, and a more open area of 200-year-old, Spanish moss-laden live oaks across the lagoon near the New Orleans Botanical Gardens. The Sculpture Garden has grown from its inception in 2003 to include 64 sculptures, most of them donated to NOMA by the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation.

Here are his photos:

Thank you Marc.

Jane

Lagniappe (12) The Sculpture Garden

We only had time to briefly visit the Sculpture Garden in New Orleans City Park.  Magnificent.  Have you ever seen works of art in this kind of a decor?
http://noma.org/pages/detail/35/Background  
NOMA = New Orleans Museum of Art

Here are Yves' photos:

Nicole's photos:

And Mary's photo: 

If other students have more photos taken in this Sculpture Garden, please send them to me so that I can share them with everyone by putting them on the blog.

Jane