Yesterday was the final excursion of the semester, and we've certainly saved the best for last: La Normandie. It was an incredible experience. We are shown in this picture at Omaha beach. It was really incredible to see the memorial museum, Omaha beach, and the American cemetery. The other excursions featured the history of France, but this is truly world history. This is the history of the US as well. That is what made it more emotional than the others. I mean, I wasn't walking around crying or anything, but you can't help but stop and just feel for families and also feel grateful for what our soldiers did that day. Standing in the cemetery, you see thousands of white crosses, and it just becomes unreal, it's really incredible, and it's something I can't really do justice in a blog post. The same is true for the beach, sure we are smiling in the picture, but you can't really sum up what it means to be standing on the land where history was made, it was amazing.
Prof Morin, like always, had a lot of great things to tell us and we also learned more about the Normandy region and France in general. For example, many of names of the hundreds of cheeses in France get their name from the region or city they come from, I was shocked that I hadn't learned that before. There is an actual Camembert, France if you want to buy a house and say you live in the city where Camembert orginated, very interesting!
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