Living in the South of France
I’m Vanessa ad speak English with
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in this spontaneous video I’m going to
tell you a little bit about where I’m
living right now right now I’m living in
France in the south of France in a small
city called Vanel it’s about 30 minutes
north of exon Provos a famous city in
the south and why am i living in France
well several reasons the first reason is
I speak French because I lived in Paris
for one year several years ago and I
would like to get better at speaking
French and learn more about the French
culture and just like you you want to
learn English just like me I want to
learn French so I’m speaking every day
with native speakers and immersing
myself in the French culture and
language the second reason is here as
you can see it’s very beautiful this is
an organic farm and an organic farm
means they grow vegetables and fruits
sometimes grains and there are no
pesticides and no chemicals used to
treat the crops and the crops are the
vegetables so the food is very natural
and healthy and this interests me a lot
I think when I work with the vegetables
and when I work with the fruit I realize
what kinds of things I’m eating because
I see how hard work it is to to make
vegetables and fruits without chemicals
I appreciate everything that I eat and I
appreciate the hard work that goes into
it
so right now I’m living at this amazing
huge house working for the farmer and
living in his house and they are French
of course so also let me tell you a
little bit about this house it is quite
incredible this part of the house the
foundation of the house which means the
bottom of the house has records back to
the Year 800
eight-hundred meaning the roman empire
Romans had a house and this exact place
that’s incredible it’s so old I am blown
away
now this exact house is not from the
Year 800 but there was a house here and
people living on this land since the
Year 800 this exact house is about 850
years old some parts of it it’s from the
Year 1200 ish 1200 and the newer part of
the house which is outside the frame is
from the Year 1700s for me that’s still
quite old but for this house it’s the
new part of the house and the people who
owned this house they have been living
here for eight generations that means
his great-great-great great-great-great
great-great grandparents lived in this
house
incredible in America we have nothing
like this in our history our history is
much different than that of France but
when I come to France and I see these
houses it is absolutely mind-blowing
that something this old exists and I
feel very lucky that I get to live in it
for a couple weeks so I hope you enjoyed
this video and learned a little bit more
about France and organic farming
thanks so much and talk to you later bye