This afternoon, we went to the state house. It was good. First we visited the gardens. Then we went inside the state house. It was very big and there were many paintings. We learned many things such as in the 1750's, Columbia became the capital of South Carolina. Nikki Haley is the first woman governor. There are 2 chambers: The senate chamber is c

Today we visited River Bluff High School. In River Bluff the scheduler is different everyday. Students can leave the school more easily than in Blaise Pascal. they have playgrounds and places called commons. They can collaborate with other students. they have a cafeteria , dance room, gym class, an auditoium with 1250 seats! They are 2000 students.

The real name of "chicken man" is Ernest Lee. He is famous in South Carolina. He paints chickens and palmettos on wood. He is a single artist with his style !! He's "crazy" and very funny !! We visited his little museum in a caravan !! He sales his paintings so we bought some. At the end he gave us some paintings, so he is very generous ! Paul and

The USC campus has 33 000 students and it's like a little town in the town: it's very huge. USC is composed of lots of buildings and beautiful gardens. We saw the oldest college library of the USA: It was built by Robert Mills, who also designed the Washington monument.. We had a picnic on the horseshoe, the historical center of USC. It's named lik

Today we visited the Martin Luther King Center. We learnt about his life at the beginning of his non-violent fight. His speeches were displayed. There were 2 worlds : one for blacks and one for whites. Whites had more rights than black people. Blacks were discriminated against. In front of this tomb there is an internal flame which means that his f

This morning we visited WLTX19 local channel.There are part of a group of 48 stations and they work with some other stations of the United States of America. We met an anchor and a producer. We saw 2 women who are marketing producers. They make some short Youtube videos with drones to promote the channel. We watched some of their videos. that was r

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was born in Virginia in 1856 and died in 1923. He studied political science. His father , called Joseph, taught theology. He was a baptist minister. Thomas Woodrow Wilson's nickname was Tommy. When he arrived in SC in 1870, he was 14 years old. The house we saw,

Yesterday we visited the South Carolina state museum. The guide told us about the American history. In first she spoke about colonial life and the life of settlers. They moved to South Carolina in wagon from Virginia! Louise and Emma

This morning we went at Krispy Kreme! It's a doughnut factory and store shop. We tasted a plaine glazed doughnut and we drank pink limonade. It was so delicious! After that, a staff member showed us the machine operation and the process of making doughnuts. We spoke about the clean day (they clean the machine on Tuesdays), the doughnuts decoration.

Historic Columbia welcomed a group of French exchange students from Lexington Middle School to tour the Woodrow Wilson Family Home and Mann-Simons today! l'histoire c'est cool, indeed! #historyiscool That's the house of a couple of black people who were released before the abolition of the slavery. The woman bought her mother so that she could not