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This is a correspondence blog between Sacho High School (near Kisumu in Kenya) and the 4A class at Anne Frank School (Sauzé-Vaussais in France)
Ceci est un blog de correspondance entre Sacho High School (près de Kisumu au Kenya) et la classe de 4èmeA du collège Anne Frank (Sauzé-Vaussais en France)


Sunday, November 20, 2011

Clément nous raconte sa passion pour la chasse !

Nous en France, on chasse le renard , le lièvre , la perdrix , le faisan, le lapin de garenne , le chevreuil , le sanglier et le cerf .


Je n'ai pas le droit de chasser car je n'ai que 13 ans . Il faut avoir 15 ans pour pouvoir chasser avec un fusil et toujours avec un adulte . C'est la « chasse accompagnée » . A 16 ans, je pourrai passer mon permis et chasser tout seul avec ma meute de chiens !

Mon rêve serait d'avoir une meute de beagles harrier : je pourrais chasser le renard et le sanglier.

En ce moment, je vais à la chasse avec mon père et parfois avec Yolann et son père . Ma chasse préférée est la chasse au lièvre . Le lièvre est très rusé mais le renard est encore plus fûté, je trouve . Le lièvre est très rapide , j'adore quand il est devant les chiens, car il fait des ruses . C'est souvent le lièvre qui gagne. Le lièvre est très difficile à tirer car il se dérobe facilement. C'est un bel animal !
Ce qui me plaît dans la chasse, c'est d'entendre les chiens aboyer après le gibier. J'aime bien l'ambiance de la chasse. 

                                                                       Le cerf
Le lapin
                                                                           Le sanglier
                                                                             Le lièvre
                                            La perdrix

 My questions about hunting :

Do you go hunting in Kenya ?

Where do you go hunting ?

Do you go hunting with dogs ?

What dogs ?

What animals do you hunt ?

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Miss world Kenya

Hello Everyone.,

My name is Betty Charlotte. I am a girl  and I am aged 13 years old. I learn at Sacho High School . In school, we are taught subjects like science, French, Mathematics, Swahili, English, music and drama and Art.
Thank you very much for your letters and love. My penpal sent me  the recipe for the strawberry pie.  I will try to cook it out when I go back home.
I love hair dressing and beauty. Recently in London we had the Miss world competition. Our Kenyan girl who lives not far from our home was among the top twenty. Here is the story.

Susan Anyango battre un total de 4177 participants de 9 comtés à Don de Miss Monde au Kenya couronne. Susan a été couronnée Miss Monde au Kenya, le Samedi Juillet 30 au Place Chêne à Nairobi. Après des mois d'entraînement épuisante dans les cheveux et la beauté, l'étiquette, le leadership et le talent, catwalking et la modélisation, Susan a été cueillies à la main comme le meilleur de la beauté dans la Nestea Miss Monde 2011 au Kenya concours. Susan qui est originaire de Kisumu City, n'a pas eu la vie facile. Sa vie s'est compliquée quand elle a perdu son père en raison d'une insuffisance hépatique alors qu'elle n'avait que 4 ans. Sa mère passa ensuite sur le moment où elle n'avait que 12 ans à cause du VIH et du sida lui laissant faire face à la dure réalité de la vie elle-même. Susan a survécu grâce à tous les remerciements ci-dessus pour sa créativité et l'héritage de ses parents sa gauche. Elle se mit à l'école secondaire et plus tard a continué à se joindre au Kenya Methodist University. Le nouveau couronnée Miss Monde Kenya continuera avec la tâche de l'éradication de jigger au Kenya. Susan va représenter le Kenya au concours Miss Monde au Kenya en Octobre de cette année, à Londres. Susan a été présenté avec une voiture flambant neuve, à pleine charge avec une - année d'assurance complète et de carburant par le Kenya d'Ashley. Félicitations à la nouvelle Miss Monde au Kenya; Susan Anyango

My hobbies are playing table tennis beauty and modeling.   The weather here is hot. When I am not in school,  I live with my brother  in a slum area of Kisumu city called  Manyatta Slums.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Elsie on the Masai Mara National Park

Hello Manon,,
I am happy to have a pen pal in France like you. My name is Elsie Liliy. I live in Africa. I was born the 10 of June and I go to  Sacho High School.  I've 2 brothers. I've black hair and brown eyes. I'm tall ...What I love about my country is the holiday destinations.  In Kenya we have several Holidays. We have the Mashujaa day. It is the day we celebrate our national heroes. The last Mashujaa holiday which was in October this year I had a chance to visit the world Famous Masai Mara National park.
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Beaucoup de touristes du monde entier viennent à cet endroit chaque année. Il offre des vues à couper le souffle et une chance de voir le Kenya «cinq grands» animaux - rhinocéros, éléphants, lions, léopards et buffles. Le Mara est aussi le foyer de la plus riche concentration de la faune, éléphants, lions, léopards, rhinocéros, buffles, zèbres, antilopes, gnous, Oribis, des hyènes, des girafes, des phacochères, des gazelles, bubales, hippopotames, crocodiles et autres. Le parc a la plus grande concentration de lions d'Afrique, y compris le lion à crinière noire.
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The Masai Mara (or The Mara) is the best park to visit to enjoy the spectacular and world-famous annual wild beast migration. Recently it was declared one of the seven wonders of the world. Over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebras and several species of antelope make an annual circular tour.  Maasai Mara derives its name from the indigenous people of Kenya - The Maasai tribesmen - and the Mara River that cuts through the park. Every year thousands of animals cross the crocodile infested river between the Serengeti in Tanzania and Masai Mara in Kenya in search of greener pastures.  Now can you share with me some of the great places around your city or area? I would love also to read about your school, teachers sports etc.
Bye for now.

Elsie

Monday, November 7, 2011

Nyama choma (Message for Margaux)

Dear
I need to tell you about Kenyan food.  Kenya has many tourist hotels. The biggest foreign exchange earner in Kenya is tourism. WE HAVE MANY French tourist coming to Kenya every year. That is the main reason I am learning French. I want to work in a French tourist hotel located here in Kenya. Then I want to cook tasty meals for the tourists.
The best meal I can make is Nyama choma. Let me explain.
Nyama choma is  roasted goat meat, it is the ultimate Kenyan experience. For visitors to Kenya, one of the things they are most struck by is the shear volume of nyama choma (roast meat) that Kenyans consume. Men, women, young or old will create any excuse to converge in groups for a session of nyama choma. Be it after work, birthdays, weddings, even funerals; there is hardly any inappropriate time to eat this national delicacy. Goat’s meat is the most popular for roasting as the flesh is fairly tender and the fat melts into the crevices as the meat is roasting, retaining a nice level of moisture in the meat
How it’s done
The process of grilling meat in Kenya is different from the process of barbequing meat typically used in the United States or Europe. Herbs and other seasonings are not used on authentic nyama choma, save for a mixture of salted water, for basting the meat while it roasts on the grill. Diners can choose from different parts of the goat i.e. the ribs, hind legs and front legs, and specify the number of kilograms they’d like to eat. It takes an average of 45 minutes to get ready and brought to your table on a tray and sliced into bite-sized pieces. With a relish of kachumbari (see glossary) and a choice of ugali, potatoes, chapati or mukimu and little piles of salt for dipping the meat into before bites, the meal is complete. Cutlery is never used to eat this meal, instead it is eaten by hand. Hand washing facilities are always available for before and after your meal.

Here are some other food stuffs here in kenya

Kachumbari - derived from the Gujarati word, Kachumbar meaning salad.


Ugali - A national dish made from maize meal. Good staple to accompany meat and kachumbari


Mukimu - Mixture of boiled potatoes, peas, traditional greens such as stinging nettle, all cooked and mashed together, boiled maize stired in at the end. 


Chapati - In Kenya this is a larger, thicker version of the traditional Indian Chapati (or flat bread), prepared from flour, water and lots of cooking fat. 
Now, tell me about meals in France. Do you guys only eat French fries?
Nelson.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Matched Epal accounts 4A  and Sacho High

Name: Morgane 
Name: Linda Murgor

Name: Anaïs B
Name: Dairy Deborah  Onyango

Name: Romain
Name: Fidel Denis Leiro
Name: Yolann
Name: Bradley Brandon

Name: Eva
Name: Risper Laurier Rerimoi
Name: Clément
Name: Lavender Amunga

Name: Manon
Name: Elsie Mona liliy kisumu

Name: Coline 
Name: Silvia Esther Cheboi

Name: Sarah
Name: Mercymary kirui
Name: Amélie 
Name: Mary Maria

Name: Quentin 
Name: James Onyi

Name: Anaïs
Name: Whitney Geoff

Name: Alice 
Name: Rose

Name: Margaux 
Name: Nelson

Name: Laurie 
Name: Belinda

Name: Coralie 
Name: Betty

Name: Benjamin
Name: Dennis kisumu

Name: Mathilde
Name: James kisumu

Name: Nathan
Name: Mercy Kirui
Name: Antoine
Name: Linda Murgor Frank

Name: Camille
Name: Marystella kisumu

Name: Théo
Name: Esther adhimabo
Name: Florian
Name: Moses kisumu


Alice répond à Rose, pour lui parler de POITIERS !

Bonjour Rose !

Moi aussi je suis très contente de pouvoir parler avec toi, c'est très intéressant de discuter avec des élèves venant d'un autre continent ! :)
Alors je vais te parler de Poitiers, c'est un grande ville à environ 50km de chez nous.

The city center is beautiful, everybody goes there for shopping  (me too!)  because there are a lot of shops ! :D
In Poitiers, there are three churches (église) their names are Notre-Dame-la-Grande, Saint-Jean de Montierneuf, and Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand !
                      

Eglise Notre-Dame-La-Grande
The  Notre-Dame-la-Grande church was built in the XIth  century, it's very old ! Its style is Romanesque :)
In the middle ages, the church front was painted with bright colours. Every summer the church is lit up with bright colours in the evenings, so you can imagine what it was like...



 And we have one cathedral, its name is "Cathédrale Saint-Pierre"

Cathédrale St-Pierre
Also, in Poitiers we have an ice-rink (patinoire) and the world champion in 2007, Brian Joubert, lives in Poitiers, and he trains there ! This is really cool ! :D
Brian Joubert is a great ice-skater !
But the best thing in Poitiers, is the Futuroscope theme park ! :D
This is very famous, in the world!
It's in Chasseneuil, but everybody says it's in Poitiers, because it's next to Poitiers, and Poitiers is more famous.

The Futuroscope

At the Futuroscope,there are attractions about new technologies, about the future, like robots for example ! :)


I have finished describing my city, now I 'd like you to tell me about your family, your animals, and what you love !


Bye Rose!
Alice