Final Blog Post & Photo Deposit

Wednesday, July 10th, 1am (Bloomington time)


Bonjour !

I just wanted to give you a final post to give you some information and share some final pictures.

First, thank you to all the families for your continued support throughout the program. I apologize for not getting a chance to speak to all of you tonight- the return to Indianapolis is always a bit hectic and it was a long trip, but we are really appreciative of your help!

I also wanted to thank our students again. Shannon, Laëtitia, and I are incredibly grateful to have spent these few weeks with you and we couldn't be more proud of all of you. You've shown commitment, resiliency, adaptability, respect, openness, and your overall conduct reflects extremely positively on yourselves and the program as a whole. Thank you for these wonderful memories of Summer 2024 in Saint-Brieuc!

I didn't get a chance to take many pictures today, but here are the final three that I took:




However, I know you have taken so many amazing ones over the course of the program, and I thought it would be great to share them, if you'd like to. I will be posting a Google Drive folder link to my own pictures in this post soon (possibly next week?), and I invite you to do the same in the comments. You will need to post your own folder link, using Google Drive or another platform, as I don't have enough storage space to host all of your pictures...!

 Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bbrQd4p_CrwcB-KN8RWCc5nQfzm5ao0e/view?usp=drive_link

I think this is it, but please feel free to comment if I have forgotten to communicate important information with you or if you have questions. Thank you again!



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