Last
Summer, I was in Paris during three days.
I
will tell you about this trip. My family travelled there for the
first time because my parents said: “children, you have to see the
Eiffel Tower”.
The
first day we took the underground of Paris, called the
“Métro”. I was very impressed because there are many lines, many
passengers and many stops.
When
we arrived at the Eiffel Tower we were excited. The tower is tall and
we are so small. Now we could either take the elevator or walk to
reach the top of the Eiffel tower. We decided to take the stairs up
to the second floor. There are one thousand stairs to go up and after
ten minutes we had a splendid view on the enormous city of Paris. I
was thrilled: houses, streets, avenues, monuments, roofs, chimneys
everywhere. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, I heard thirty different
languages because people come from all over the world to see Paris.
The
second day we visited the church called “Sacré Coeur”. It
is located on the hill of “Mont Martre”. First we visited the
Sacré Coeur and then we sat on the stairs in front of the church
where we watched a street artist who juggled with his soccer ball on
a lamp post without ever dropping his ball. At the end of his
performance, the public gave him a coin.
Then
we walked to the main square of Mont Martre: there were many painters
who did portraits of tourists.
We
found a typical French restaurant there, too, where my brother and I
ate pizza and ice cream.
On
the third day we visited some museums of Paris. We needed to
make a choice. We are interested in nature and animals, we decided to
visit the Museum of Paleontology first and then the “Galérie de
l'Evolution” which is the National Museum of Natural History. This
is a huge building with a black background and a line of animals
living in the desert in the front: elephants, giraffes, bears,
gazelles. In another part of the museum, we saw animals living in the
oceans of the world: fish, sharks, swordfish, whales and dolphins and
huge ocean turtles. Upstairs, we discovered a big hall with animals
that will soon be extinguished. Some animals have already been
extinguished and they can only be seen in museums.
On
the fourth day we drove to “La Villette” which is the
Technical Museum of Paris. Next to the museum there is “The Géode”,
a round building, which looks like a huge ball floating on water. It
is a special cinema where you can see films about nature such as the
Grand Canyon in North America or historical films about the Second
World War or fishermen and their children on a Southern Pacific
Island. We chose the film about the island. The screen was very high,
very large, and almost round. When we saw the little boy diving in
clear sea water we thought we were diving next to him.
We
spent four very busy days in Paris: everyday we took the noisy
underground, we walked a long time in the streets and the parks until
our legs hurt. We also met very poor people who live in phone boxes
and in the underground and who always beg for money because they have
no home, no work and no school for their children. This was very
shocking for my brother and me. But most of the experiences I made
were new for me: I visited monuments that I saw for the first time, I
enjoyed Montmartre and also the “Notre Dame Cathedral” along the
Seine River and I also liked playing soccer in the Park of the
“Tuileries” with a new soccer ball from Paris St Germain. I would
like to go back to Paris soon to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
(and not only to the second floor) and to visit the “Louvre Museum”
and also take a “Bateau Mouche”, a tourist boat on the Seine
river.
We
returned to Grenoble with lots of good memories in our mind and we
will try to go to Paris again soon because we loved it.
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