CJC YOG: February 2010

Bonjour!

Just to start this blog post off, we would like to make an apology as there was an error with the previous blog post which was supposed to be Day 9's not Day 8's.

Day 8's was never posted. So here it is :D

Our last day in the city of romance.

We kicked started the day with a trip to muse d’orsay, an old train station converted into a museum 20 years ago, while retaining its outer exterior the museum on Rue de la Légion d'Honneur is situated along the banks of the seine river of Paris, near other famous landmarks such as the Louvre museum, centre Pompidou and Musée de la Mode et du Textile‎.

Due to the fact that it was only 9 am in the morning, and had booked tickets in advance, within minutes of getting off the bus, we were already in the museum admiring pieces of artworks from the years 1848 to 1915.

The same clock used when the train station was still in operation.

Unlike the other museums we had visited (the Louvre, Centre Pompidou), this museum featured impressionist art (the painting of realistic scenes of modern life) from painters such as Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet and Manet and sculptors like Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel and Paul Guaguin.

With Mr Gee as our guide for the museum, we were able to visit the highlights of the museum as well as hear the interpretation and meanings of them.

These were some of the pieces that we were introduced to:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir -Bal au Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre.

Édouard Manet-The Luncheon on the Grass.

Auguste Rodin (the man who made ‘the thinker ‘)–The gates of hell

Time passed quickly and soon we bid Mr. Gee farewell as we parted ways at the end of our tour of Musee d’orsay .

Our final stop in Paris was the area of Boulevard Haussmann ,where we had free time to walk around and have lunch on our own. To save time, a couple of us decided to get sandwiches or keish or crepes to go.

Apart from being one of the major shopping districts in Paris, with department stores such as Les Galeries Lafayette and Printemps etc, the area also houses the famous Palais Garnier. However, shopping for the boys was getting boring, so some of them decided to walk around the streets of Paris. Off they went and 2 hours later, landed themselves at another Decathlon where they met an uber hyper French lady, while trying out some skate boards. In the end, we made friends with her and took a wonderful photo with her =D