[Summer in Grenoble] Movie Theater in Grenoble

On the night of June 16th, 2016

Some of my friends and I had some extra time

So, we decided to spend it by watching a movie at a movie theater in Grenoble.

The movies was very close to the tram station that we got off at.

By the looks of the sign, the movie theater seemed to have a name "PATHE!"
I had no idea what that meant, but the important thing was that it was my first time going to the movies outside of Korea and U.S.

We went inside

This was pretty much what the lobby of the movie theater looked like.

That's how other French people bought tickets and stuff.

...and this was how we did it, with a help from a friend, who was a student of one of the Universities in Grenoble.

Not a huge fan of candies, but this was very impressive.

We watched "Jurrassic World" that night.
One of my Facebook friends told me that "you all should've watched Mad Max instead."
Well, I had no idea what kind of movie they were showing, and I was just happy to go watch a movie after about 4 months of no movie.

They were projecting a poster ad when we were getting seated.
and they showed only a few video ads before screening the movie.

One of the different things of France could be found on the ads of drinks
They had captions, big enough to be easily noticed, on the bottom part of the screen when they were showing drink ads. I'm guessing that the French at least tries to respect the people's right to know.

Anyway, we all wrapped up the day with a movie.
Doing something that you do at your home town, somewhere else gives new feel to such experience, and I personally think it is worth trying.

[Summer in Grenoble] Kebab is Love, Kebab is Life ~!?

The original plan was to post all of the bigger events and then post smaller things
This weekend, however, due to time constraints, I had no choice but to post shorter posts instead.


One of the foods that I really had a lot of while I was in France in the summer of 2015, was Kebabs.

This (Le Sesame) was one of the Kebab places I went to with some of my friends.
It was, of course, located in that 'Notre Dame Musee' station area.

One of the weirdest thing I came to notice while I was in grenoble was the fact that it was much easier to find Kebab places rather than what would count as a "French Restaurant."

Anyways, Kebab places typically look like this on the inside.
Le Sesame was one of the relatively larger and cleaner places. Not to mention it was also the place with a fairly diverse menu.

Kebab places seem to typically sell burgers, sandwiches, kebabs, and tacos (no this is not the Mexican tacos you're familiar with).

With some of my newly-made friends in Grenoble, I came to eat at the Kebab restaurant.

While you do have many options to choose from, I personally prefer to order Kebabs no matter what.
I once ordered a burger-like sandwich at some other place, but it wasn't as good or unique tasting as the kebabs, and besides, kebabs are real Turkish food, right?

It's not that other stuff are bad, it's just that Kebabs are less likely to fail (by "fail," I meant "taste bad.")

One of my friends told me that they normally use chicken or lamb meat in Kebabs, which I was very surprised to find out. I remember when I was little, I was deeply traumatized by the stench lamb meats had. However, the meat in the Kebabs I had in France never had any kind of bad stench that I could not stand!
Maybe it all depends on the style of cooking
or it's just that I always got chicken meat instead of lamb meat in my kebabs.


Anyway, Kebab is one of the foods that I most frequently had while I was in France.
I had one on the day I arrived to Grenoble, several times while I was in Grenoble, once while I was at Nimes, and once while I was in Paris.

Kebabs are very cheap, very filling, and always decent in taste at the least.
Kebab is Love, Kebab is Life!

I really miss those kebabs, I really do.

[Summer in Grenoble] French Class Outings: Grenoble's Les Halles Saint Claire Market

June 11th, 2015

It was another one of those French class outing days.
Our class was supposed to meet near the tram station, Les Halles Saint Claire station.
It's one stop away from Notre Dame Musee station, so it actually is that very area with a lot of shops and restaurants.

A picture of a local flower shop opening in the morning.

Yes, we got here in the morning, because it was the day when we had French class in the morning and then Biochemistry class in the afternoon.

Anyway, out early arrival to the meeting location gave us some time to sit down at a cafe

....and have some coffee (no, I did not have any, because I don't drink coffee at all).
I've heard that in Europe, they typically drink espressos instead of the americano coffee you normally see in places like the U.S. and by the looks of the size of the coffee, it sure seemed to be that way in France.

YEAH!
Drinking espresso like a European!

Few moments later, all of the other classmates and the teacher arrived.
We were divided into what I remember as 3 or 4 groups, and were given a worksheet per group.

Before heading into the market, the teacher addressed us to this... uh... thingy? on the road.
If you look very VERY carefully, you'll see that it reads CULARO instead of ULAR in the center of this metal piece. It turns out that the name "Cularo" was the very first name of Grenoble.

Anyway,

it was time to head in to the market.

We first started off by looking around the place.

but we still had to do our task, which was finishing the worksheet.
Basically, each group had to visit the stores written on the worksheet and ask corresponding questions, then writing down the replies onto our worksheet.

Woah
That looks delicious.
I wonder what those would taste like after cooking them on a grill.

We then visited another store and asked questions.

 then to this store that sold various drinks

and we continued filling out the worksheet.

 Some places weren't even open, and some places opened later than others, so there were some times when we just walked around the market, doing some eye-shopping.

I personally considered this Fromagerie very notable.

Yes, "fromage" means "cheese," so this was a cheese store.

I was very surprised to see so many different kinds of cheese (because I'm not really a cheese person)
There were cow cheese, goat cheese, and sheep cheese.
I had no idea goat cheese and sheep cheese existed.

Although I wouldn't really try them, it was still cool to know that there are so many kinds of cheese in France.

After our group has completed most of the worksheet, I started to take various photos of the Les Halles Saint Calire Market.

I had no idea that French ate this many kinds of meat, some of which I've never seen before!
Oh, and if you've noticed how expensive things are, that's because Les Halles Saint Claire Market is one of the more expensive markets.

there were also wine shops.

bakery

plant shop

another bakery

fish market

a place that cooks chicken(?)

and etc.
I really like looking around not-megastore local markets.
It has the vibe of the people(?), which I find way more attractive and enjoyable than museums.

After all of us were done with everything, the entire class made our way to...

 ... to this plaza.

Well, actually
we went to a cafe near that plaza, had some snacks there, and then parted.

This was different street market I walked past on my way back to take the tram.
Other two classes went to a different market, which I heard was a lot cheaper.
If I had a chance to go to the other market as well, I would have bought something there, because I really like buying stuff from markets.
Unfortunately, I did not get the chance to go to the other market.
:'(