Tuesday, October 4, 2011

School Lunches, by P & G

(note from P, age 6, grade 1, called CP here):
Thar is a lunch lati that srvs as a mile. we era asposto it evrithing. sumtims we get
 a tret fordrsrte. she ses that i am wel behavd in the conten. we have 4 coresis.
  the 1st corse is vegetable, like genbenzs. the 2st cors is met. sume of it is cre.wons i
thot it testid like dog food. thane coms bred and chees.
it is awlwes baget.so then we have apol soos bote sumtins we have a tret.

[Ed translation: "There is a lunch lady that serves us a meal.  We are supposed to (pronounced "a-s'posed-to") eat everything.  Sometimes we get a treat for dessert.  She says that I am well-behaved in the cantine We have 4 courses.  The 1st course is vegetables, like green beans.  The 2nd course is meat.  Some of it is curry.  Once I thought it tasted like dog food.  Then comes bread and cheese.  It is always baguette.  So then we have applesauce, but sometimes we have a treat.]

(note from G, age 8, grade 3, called CE2 here):
At the cantine there are 3 servises. There are 2 people at the cantine serving us: Giselle
and " Madame Mangia Mangia". We call her " Madame Mangia Mania" because she
is Italian and always says " Allez mangia mangia" wich meens "comme on eat eat."
They serve us family styll but you don't get to pick what you want. There is 1 thing that is
funny about the cantine: they put everything on your plate even if your not going to eat it,
and at the end of the cantine they just throw the things you didn't eat and put it in the trash
in stead of giving it to the CM1 and CM2 (4th grade and 5th grade). These are 2 of my
favorite things so far at the cantine:cous-cous and curry chicken.

Some family friends just visited us, an American family living in Israel at the moment, where they go to school 6 days per week.  When they heard from the girls about the lunches and the fact that there is no school on Wednesdays, the 8 year old exclaimed, "I want to live in Paris, too, so that I can go to school 4 days a week and get served lunch like kings and queens!"  Well said!

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