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A few moments ago we arrived at the Louise Weiss building of the European Parliament here in Strasbourg, and with great excitement joined the queue of young people from across the continent waiting to enter the Parliament. All the students are really looking forward to the day and we look forward to updating you throughout with photos from the event.

Today the students took part in the Strasbourg Challenge. There were three parts to the challenge:

• the cultural challenge: each group had to research a topic and then do a presentation in a style of their choice to teach the others about what they’d learned
• the linguistic challenge: with the inspiration of Walk, Talk and Learn French, the students had to take a photo of an advert or poster in the town and then explain a grammar point included in the poster
• the daft challenge: each group had to find the naffest souvenir in Strasbourg – quite a difficult task given the range of tacky objects available!

We were most impressed with the performances in our afternoon feedback session – as the photos will demonstrate there was a huge amount of creativity involved! Gerry also embraced his challenge and learned s tune on the tin whistle!

Last night we enjoyed an alsacien meal in the Thomasien restaurant where we sampled the famous tartes flambées of the region.

Everyone is having a great time here in Strasbourg. Today we’ve done the street survey and we’re now doing some preparation for the Parliament visit on Tuesday. This evening we’ll be eating in a restaurant typique, and sampling la cuisine alsacienne including the famous tarte flambée. By the sounds of things we have a few singers and performers who’ll entertain the group with some Scottish songs. It’s going to be a busy evening, so we can’t promise to have more photos up later tonight, but we’ll update again tomorrow.

Cette après-midi nous avons fait un sondage dans les rues de Strasbourg. Nous avons posé des questions au sujet de l’Écosse, l’Europe et les langues. Les Strasbourgeois en savent beaucoup, mais il y a eu des réponses intéressantes aussi: apparemment Reykjavik est la capitale de l’Écosse, et bien sûr les Écossais boivent beaucoup de whisky!

Bonjour tout le monde! It’s Sunday morning 9am, and the students are already at work preparing for this afternoon’s sondage, when they’re going to be asking passing Strasbourgers about Scotland and Europe. Parents: for information, your sons and daughters were up at 7am this morning, breakfasted at 8, and are working at 9. We thought you’d like to know that this is possible!

After our language workshop this morning we’ll be heading out into the town and some of the students will be going to church and others will visit an art gallery. More news and pics later today.