La Fête des familles!

Last night was the Fête des familles! The Fête des familles is a show that the program puts on for the families that are participating in the program and it is something that the stagiaires have been working on since the first day of classes. The show had a mix of both music (chorus performances and individual/small group performances) and plays/sketches. Valeria's host father M. Talarmain happened to have filmed some of them and passed them on to me. I would like to thank him for his help!

The evening began with a short play called Au comptoir de l'hôtel by Marie-Line's group. I do not have a video of this performance but I do have a photo or two:



Below, you can see Keith preforming the song A la faveur de l'automne by Tété:



Keith is extremely talented! He worked really hard on his music.

Kelly's chorus sang the song Vois sur ton chemin, it is a song from the French movie Les Choristes:



We were priveledged to hear Hanna K's version of the Comme des enfants by Coeur de Pirate, she did an incredible job even though that she was expecting to perform:



Wow!

My theater group did a sketch that was first done by a French comedy group called Les inconnus. Here is our version of the sketch:



Olga's group performed a short play by Ann Rocard called Le château, here is a video of one of the scenes:



My group took the stage once again to perform an improvisation sketch called Taxi. The students pulled characters randomly from a bag and had to act out that specific character. It was then up to the driver of the taxi to guess who or what that person was. We had a volunteer come up from the audience to assist us and we would like to thank her for her participation. Here is the sketch:



Keith and Hanna K. combined the musical talent and sang a song written by Keith called La chanson du stage. They put a lot of effort into their music:



Kelsie and Anna S. then followed by performing the Sarcasme skit by Eric et Ramzi. :)



The show ended with music by the chorus. Here is their version of J'ai demandé à la lune by Indochine:



The show was a wonderful way to thank the host families and we hope that they very much enjoyed their performances. What a nice way to end the program in Brest!

Today is the last day for the students to be with their host families in Brest. Tomorrow morning, we will be leaving at 6:30 and we will have a 6 hour or so bus ride to Versailles, followed by Paris. We will be in Paris until their early morning flight on Saturday. If I manage to have an internet connection, I will do my best to post photos for you in Paris.

I hope that you enjoyed the videos!