Lumiere musee! I was interested in this outing becaues I took a film module in nus before, and we did study a bit of lumiere films. In fact, the first film ever was filmed here!!!
The hangar, which houses the warehouse where the first film was filmed. It was just a 50 second black and white silent film of factory workers leaving the warehouse, which was burned down. A small portion of it still stands behind me in a glass house.
To celebrate 100 years of film, many directors came to this place and reenacted the leaving of the warehouse.
The door. I heard that famous film directors come here to pay tribute to the pioneers of cinema. Clint Eastwood was here last year.
Nice stairways in Antonie Lumiere's (Louis' dad) house.
The guide who brought us around spoke in french, so I didnt catch much. -___-
The Lumieres also invented colour photos. This are the powders they used.
Poster for the first movie ever screen. This is the original copy. Notice that there was no movie title on the poster.
CROIX ROUSSE!
We went to Croix Rousse, Bellcour(to do some shopping before sales end) and Chinatown on saturday.
Hotel de Ville.
The opera theatre! I want to watch a show there someday before I leave.
Croix Rousse is a hill where they (french last time) used to make silk. We had to do lots of walking against gravity. But after doing so much walking since I arrived, my legs are now quite strong to handle such walking. haha.
Croix Rousse has a traboule too. This is the entrance of the traboule. Looks just like any other door, right?
Since traboules are still used by residents, there were many doorbells outside the door of the traboule. We were supposed to find a button to press to open the traboule door, but we didn't know which one was the correct one, and ended up pressing someone's doorbell instead. -___-
Nice sight on top of Croix Rousse.
Nice picture at the foot of croix rousse. Can use to make postcards.
Some Geneva Bank gate. Nice spikes.:P
After croix rousse, we headed over to Bellcour. I bought a bottle of L'occitane moisturiser. I got a 10% discount for being a "tourist". If I spent more than 175euros, I can get another 12% tax rebate. May buy a bottle of Chanel perfume before I return to sg :P
Blabla, we went to chinatown after that.
Chinatown is very small and old. So much for CNY shopping, haha. I saw them selling cans of Yeo's teas for 1 euro (2.11sgd). Most things cost a bomb there when you compare them to sg prices. One packet of frozen baos can cost 3euros (6.33sgd). It's crazy.
Oh well, at least I have rice and soy sauce now. HAPPY!
I cooked my first chinese meal that night- chicken porridge, which was SHIOOK! Will try to cook more chinese meals this weekend to celebrate cny.:)
That night, I hung out with a bunch of french dudes in 5th year and the Korean exchange students.
I spoke french, english and mandrin to some of these guys. Yes, some of them can speak mandrin!!! One of them did exchange in China, while 2 others will be going to beijing in 2 weeks time. Haha, Speaking chinese with a french accent.
I also managed to practice my french. You know, I have always loved the french language since the day I decided I wanted to learn french. And speaking and listening to them speak, I was reminded about how french is such a beautiful language.
I also took this opportunity to pose a few questions I have been dying to ask the french:
Q: Do french bathe everyday?
A: Yea. However, there used to be a catholic thing that said that people cannot bathe 2 centuries ago. They only could wash their face and hands using rice water. :S
Also, there was a king who only showered only once in his life. He showered the day before he got married. Haha, he must be damn smelly.
Q: Are french people romantic?
A: Response very divided. One of them said yes, others said no.
Q (this one was discussed in french class): Racism in france. discuss.
A: Too long to type here.
After checking out Lyon at night, we rode VeloVs back to INSA. It was great but cold.
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I went to church with Kane on Sunday morning. There are not many protestant churches in Lyon because France is a predominatly catholic country. It was a small church which was PACKED with people.
I could not understand the whole sermon. Awful, right? I only knew that the pastor was talking about some passage from the book of Jobs. *sigh*. But I loved the hymns. Hymns sung in french ...nice. It was a carasmatic church so... yea, it was a little scary. Lots of Africans too.
After the service, the pastor was telling Kane that the church wanted to open a chinese service and needed help. There are 2 chinese in the church who can translate french to chinese. I told kane I could play piano for the service. Lyon has no chinese services in the protestant churches to cater to the chinese here. It's a pity, for Lyon is the third largest city in France.
I also asked the pastor if I could have some of the hymns to bring back to sg but I didn't understand his reply.
After church, Kane and I walked over to the boulangerie that was opened on sundays and I bought a baguette. NOW I understand why my dad said when I eat the bread here, I won't want to eat bread in sg. IT WAS FANTASTIC.
Ok, a good baguette is one that you can break easily because the skin is crispy and the inside is soft. You only can get good baguette from boulangeries because the bread is hand-made. Machine-made breads are bad.
We ate the bread and walked over to the Velov station to rent a bike to cycle back to Insa.
Me and my VeloV.
It was a very nice morning, and I am looking forward to having more mornings like that.=)
Having said that, having too many mornings like that is a bad thing. Will make me very dull.
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