[Summer in Grenoble] French Class Outings: Group Adventure(?)

June 19th, 2015

It was a day for another French class outings.
The problem is...
I can't exactly remember what happened on this day.
This is why you shouldn't procrastinate

Well, everyone gathered in the Alliance Francaise building, the teachers divided us into groups, gave us a map, and a worksheet that had the places we had to visit.
If I'm remembering correctly, that is.

and thus we were off to explore.

This was the city library, which was one of the places on the worksheet.

Trying to figure out how to get to the next location.

Onward!

I think this church, 'Paroisse Saint Joseph,' was one of the places on the worksheet too.

Grenoble was no exception when it comes to a city with a nicely build church buildings.

To the next destination!

This area was called 'Verdun'
It had a nice plaza, cool looking buildings like the 'Préfecture de l'Isère' in the above picture,

and the 'Musée et Bibliotheque' shown in this picture.

Well, that's enough of Verdun.

my group went on to the next place,

... which turned out to be Grenoble Tourist Information Center..

I had no idea that Grenoble had a tourist information center until this day.
The discovery of this place was actually pretty surprising to me.

And thus, we were looking for the last place to go before heading to the final meeting place.

It turns out that the last landmark to find was actually this fountain.
We had to take a group photo and send it to one of the teachers as a proof of completion.

It turns out that the fountain we were looking for was actually located at a familiar place.
According to what I've heard, there was a gelato shop behind the fountain.

How did I miss that... :'(

Anyway, we were all done with everything, and made our way to the final meeting place.

...which was Victor Hugo Plaza.
All groups (I think) handed in their worksheets and maps to the teachers, and then were dismissed.

This was one of my most favorite French class outings.
No specific details to remember, it was a fairly casual exploration of the city.
I like it when there's no pressure.

[Summer in Grenoble] Dinner Party at Musée Hébert

June 18th, 2015

Summer study abroad came with a lot of get-togethers

This night's meeting was more of a dinner-party, compared to the past parties.
We took the tram to 'La Tronche Hôpital' station.

Yes, I know.
I just could not rest my camera or my hands from taking weird/pointless pictures

All of us were going to Musée Hébert, where they were exhibiting Joël Negri's artworks.

This is it!
Musée Hébert!
Not the one in Paris, this one is in Grenoble.

This place was once a house of an artist, but it is currently used as an art museum.
Apparently, the exhibits on the first floor seems to change depending on the time.

Anyway, all people who were enrolled in the summer program by University of Grenoble or UJF were invited to this dinner party.

Until all the food is prepared, we could go look inside the museum

or have a look around the garden of Musée Hébert.
I chose to be the black sheep and started looking around the garden first.

Oooh, Musicians!
Now this really is starting to look like a dinner party!

The garden looked nice and peaceful, with some artworks placed here and there.

The food seemed to be all ready

So I decided to quickly go through the museum and start eating.

This is the first floor exhibition hall.

This is where the exhibited artworks change depending on the time.
When all of us were there for the dinner party, Joël Negri's works were on display.

and of course, I can't read the descriptions.
Stupid language barrier.

There were also artworks on display on the second floor.

The upper floor seemed to exhibit mostly the past work of the previous owner of this building.
The artistic style was very different from those of Joel Negir.

There also was a studio, where the late owner of the building used to work in.
Whoever this person was, sure was a good artist.

This is the rooftop terrace that connects to another building next to the one I was just in.

The view from the rooftop terrace was pretty nice.

Now, on to the next building!

This building seemed to replicate the living spaces of the previous owner.

hmm... can't go up

I guess down is the only way I can go.

Dining room and a living room.

Behold!
Ernest Hebert.
This was the artist who initially owned this house.
So that probably means that the artworks exhibited on the second floor of the first museum building are Ernest Hebert's works.


Okay, since I was done going through the museum, it was time to eat!

It was nice having dinner outdoors with some live music.

I think many of the folks went downtown afterwards.
but I just went back to the dorm.

Oh, and there's a thing about the food they have at the parties.
Many of the party food were not really my thing. They were either too salty or sour(?) for my liking.
and cheese!! Not a big fan of cheese either (I can eat cheese on pizza or cheeseburgers, but I tend to dislike other kinds.)
The portion is alway a little less than how much I actually want, too.
Because the food prepared are limited, they tend to disappear quickly before you know it.

Regardless, I still try to at least show up to the meetings.
If I don't do that, I might not even end up seeing people's faces for quite a long time.