Today villagers shared their favorite chansons, danses and musique instrumentale at the soirée de talent. Meanwhile our special nature group, Aventure Nature, went on their overnight campout. They’ll be returning tomorrow morning to join the rest of Lac du Bois for…
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Trois themes super
Our themes this week have been very varied and fun. Monday had the theme of Afrique de l’Ouest where villagers learned about the French-speaking nations of Western Africa and went to a marche in the evening to barter for djembes, cafe,…
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Encore un dimanche dynamique
After a very busy (and fun!) weekend, today we return to our regular daily schedule at Lac du Bois. We had a blast at International Day on Friday, said “au revoir” to our one-week villagers on Saturday, and enjoyed lots of nouvelles activités…
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Allez allez allez allez
Allez Journée Internationale! Today was a very full and a very fun day spent in Bemidji with our fellow Language Villages from around Minnesota. The weather was beautiful, the food was delicious and the birthday celebration was a blast! Thank…
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Préparation pour la Journée Internationale!
Lac du Bois, Hackensack is very excited to participate in International Day tomorrow in Bemidji. This year’s gathering is particularly meaningful as Concordia Language Villages celebrates its 50th summer. The theme of the day is “Walls Still to Fall” and Lac…
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La comédie française
Our theme today was la Comédie française and all of our villagers became comédiens today as they prepared des pièces de théâtre for our evening activity. They also continued having loads of fun with their ateliers and projets and beginning…
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Le Maghreb
Our thème de la journée was le Maghreb: les pays francophones en Afrique du Nord. Villagers began their new projets (small language-learning groups) and ateliers (interest-based activités) and for the veillée (evening activity) ce soir, villagers learned some danse orientale,…
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Deux nouvelles sessions
Today we opened our frontières to welcome villagers participating in two new sessions: FH48 (one-week session) and FH42 (two-week session). Our fonceurs (four-week credit villagers), who just enjoyed a fun weekend off at the halfway point of their program, showed…
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La fin de FH22
We have had a terrific time the last two weeks with our energetic group of villageois in session FH22. Today we celebrated how much these villagers have learned and grown over the course of their time at Lac du Bois,…
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Festival de mode!
The French are known for fashion and yesterday at Lac du Bois we had our very own Festival de mode! Villagers were divided into four groups and each created a maison de couture: Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint-Laurent. Their…
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