Northern France-Livy

When we were in Thailand, we met this group of people at Anthong National park, Beatrice and Annie, Annie's husband and their son. They were from France and I spent the whole day talking to them in French. Well, they live in Eu, right outside of Normandy and Dieppe. Beatrice has a friend who has a daughter who is twelve named Pauline. Beatrice had invited us to stay at here beautiful home for 3 nights and I would meet Pauline. Before we went to Eu, we stopped at the village where Monet lived. Monet was a very famous painter, who lived in the late 1800's. You may know his waterlily painting which is one of his famous one's. It was actually quite cool walking around the gardens and recognizing where some of his paintings were painted. We also got to go into his house which was really awesome. The town he lived in was so beautiful, it was like a fairy tale. The houses all had hay roofs and little wooden doors. It was crazy.

Monet's garden

His pond

My dad should be a photographer

 We left Monet's home town and headed to Eu. The first night we were there, we went to Annie's house for dinner. Pauline and her family were there, her younger brother (who was 10), her mom and her dad. We played soccer the whole time and had a lot of fun. We will definitely be meeting up with them again. The next couple of days were spent going to all the Canadian memorials from the wars. It was crazy how many of soldiers died in the war, the graveyards were shocking. I think my heart actually stopped. If you don't know what the Canadians did for France in World war two, you should Google it or ask your parents. It is a very important part of Canadian history and I think everyone should know about it. It really touched me and I liked it a lot and not just because mom told me to. Hanging out with Pauline and Beatrice and sight seeing all the little towns in Northern France was amazing. I can't tell you how much I loved it here. It was so amazing, like, so amazing. I am going to live here when I am older. Some of you may know I can speak french, and knowing the language really helps. I loved Paris so much, but I would not want to live there. All the little towns here are only about 3 hours away from Paris and seriously, it looked like a fairy tale. All the houses were like little cottages. I felt like I should be seeing Snow White going into one of them. Anyway, I think France was my favorite country. No, I'm sure of it. I will definitely come back here.

Dinner at Annie's

A church in Normandy

Another church in Normandy

One of the view points

These graves are all Canadian and English soldiers who were all from 19 years old and up

This was a war museum, I actually cried in it

A church in Dieppe

Another Graveyard. These were all French soldiers on the left and Canadian on the right.

Me, Anneka and Pauline

This park had holes in the ground that were huge. And then I found out they were made by bombs

This memorial, Vimy Ridge, was dedicated to Canada, it was very touching

It was kind of crazy because, some of the parks were actual Canadian soil. What I mean by that is, after the war, France gave Canada a piece of their land for helping so much in the war. We were home for a bit. It was hard to wrap my head around it.

I think part of the reason I liked Northern France so much was because it really touched me. I love being a Canadian so much, and I would not want to live anywhere but there... except France. France has enough connection with Canada that I really did feel at home there. It was so beautiful, and that it is why it is the only country I feel like I could live in. I JUST LOVED IT HERE!!!!! I never want to leave, but like all good things, it had to end.
NEXT STOP, BELGIUM!!!