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  Hello,
I'm agree with you Hours, the best place in San Francisco is Chinatown.It is a very convivial place. Chinatown is a dynamic and nice neighbourhood to discover other community. You can listen to chinese music and dance in street but also full of other activities.

In addition to this magnificent district for your trip,you are obligated to pass in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Is for me an unavoidable place.
The bridge was inaugurated in 1937. Did you know the story of this bridge? The US navy wanted to paint the golden gate bridge in black and yellow contrary to the international orange, the American navy was afraid that, it wouldn't be visible in the fog. Some people think that the Golden Gate Bridge is in gold color, in deduction with his name but it's orange!
You can admire the view, see boats pass but above all you can listen to resting sounds of the seagulles and the sea, this takes us out of the decor of a noisy city to a quiet and relaxing place despite the heavy traffic on the bridge.
Don't forget to take pictures to keep memories unforgettable.

And you, What is your favorite place in San Francisco?

Bye ;)
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     Hi everybody! I've read all of yours opinions and I'm agree with some things and disagree with other ones.
     
     First, lots of you really want to go to China Town, but I think, though this neighbourhood seems very special and interesting, is better to devote our trip to the culture of San Francisco. Even if I would like to visit the amazing cookie factory (entrance is free!) and eat cookies for discover the little paper into.
     As far as the Cable Cars is concerned, I'm not totally convinced. In a lot of pictures we can see Cable Cars empty of people, so much so that some of their cling to like they can. It's so dangerous! It's more careful to visit the Cable Cars museum.
     So, in my opinion the best thing ever to see in San Francisco is the Golden Gate Bridge! It's an iconic Landmark. Built in 1937, it was first a necessity but now it's considerate like one of the 7 Modern Wonders of the World. His orange color fascinates (indeed, it should have been paint in black and yellow stripes) and it's so higher! We could cross over this famous bridge on foot and then admirate the beautiful view (it just takes a little hour) and ear city song, boat song and waves song. The Golden Gate Bridge appeared in many films and also in "La Planète des Singes : Les origines" where the monkeys cross over the bridge at the end of the film. I hope we will have enough time to do that everybody want to do and have a very good travel!
     
     Bye! , Chloé
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What should we visit in San Francisco? / Re: TERMINALE S1: You can start commenting HERE!
« Last post by Hours on November 19, 2016, 01:36:25 pm »
Hello everybody,

I agree with you Théo, there are many things to see in SF but to my opinion the best thing to see is Chinatown. It's the most popular destination of the bight of SF, it's also one of the olders neighborhoods of the SF since 1848.
Inside this district we can walk in the street and see muscials shows, with dancers, singers, and people who are meditating. People are so surprising the first time they came in Chinatown by the atmosphere, chineses people give us so good vibes. It's a really good place, we can go to Portsmouth Square to forget trouble of the city. Portsmouth is the « Time square of SF » , it's really pretty and peaceful.
To talk about the same thing of Théo, in Chinatown, there is a place named Waverly, where we can see colored balcony with rainbow for the gays. It's amazing. You talked about cable cars, you know that we can also use this kind of transport, don't you ? It's goes through the district, and many tourists take it to live a singular experience. In all of this places we can eat very good and tasty foods, originals chineses foods.
To conclude, when we'll go to United States we really have to visit this unbelievable neighborhood who is Chinatown.

What do you think about it ? Tell me.
Bye  :D
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Hey guys,

I love all of your ideas, especially Loise's. Going to Alcatraz Island would be amazing. I don't think it's too dark, it's really interesting! Besides, seeing the prison that the 3 infamous prisoners (Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin) escaped in 1962 would be so cool!

Personally, I'd really like to go to Chinatown first though. I'm happy to see that many agree.
I have heard that Chinatown is incredible: it has traditional music, food joints, markets, temples and parks (like Portsmouth Square, I’ll get to that later).

I think we should also go to the Golden Gate Bakery to get some hot egg custard tarts and the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory.

I'd love to hear the Chinese violin through the streets while we visit the neighborhood! We should also go visit the local parks, like Portsmouth Square. Residents play chess, Mahjong and cards there. They even practice Tai Chi and I would love to try it. Chinatown is a vibrant neighborhood, and I really think we should go visit it for its exotic food, sounds and activities. So we NEED to check it out!

I hope you guys agree, let me know if you have any other ideas!
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All of you definitely want to visit Chinatown and I couldn't agree more ! ;D

After all, it is one of the most famous and iconic neighbourhoods in San Francisco. It has such a big community and such an amazing culture. When people go to Chinatown, they can travel while staying at the same place, The chinese ambiance brings something really exotic, it is really interesting to discover new cultures, chinese food (there are a lot of alleys where you can eat whatever you want) and the traditional music of course ! In the street, you can hear the wonderful and rich sound of Chinese violin. Like some people said before, there are a lot of activities in the two parks too, and you can never get bored.

Chinatown is not just a place where people live, it's a place that lives with its community, it's moving with its people and punctuated by their activities, it's a really cool place to be.

Moreover, you can easily get to it by taking the cable cars, one of the emblems of San Francisco. The cable cars stop often so you can get off them wherever you want and be totally free of your movements. Also, you can't miss the cable cars, they have a pretty unique sound, like a rumbling, you can say it's kind of like the underground sound, it is the real mecanical sound of the machine moving. It's really enjoyable to watch them run up and down the street of San Francisco, but what is very funny about these cable cars is the ringing bells contest between the conductors. :D

Every sound, from the most authentic ones, the chinese violin and the cable cars bells, to the most modern ones like the traffic of ships and cruises that you can hear around the Golden Gate Bridge, is part of what makes San Francisco unique.
It is a city with a music and a soul, and you can't just remain unmoved in front of this rhythm.

I can't wait to discover this city with all of you !

Thanks for reading me  :-*
Camille C.
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What should we visit in San Francisco? / Re: TERMINALE S2: You can start commenting HERE!
« Last post by julie on November 19, 2016, 07:16:20 am »
hey everybody !!

i invite you to visit san fransico with  "cable cars" for our school trip.
 because it's a fabulous and attipic thing! it's so spacial, unique in the world i think it's a good means of transport for getting around san fransico no ?
and on top of that it's really good actual machine ( even if she not date from yesterday^^). it's true it's simply a train (or tramway) but it's the attraction of san fransico, maybe her emblem, and it makes a spacial sound and it would be great and amazing to go hear this sound all together i think it's a good idea :D.
 so now a little knowledge : this machine was build in 1873, he travels 17Km, it stops in 51 stations and it works using with electric cables.
Hop on the "cable cars" it will visit you san fransico without too much to make an effort  8)
 (and the Streets in san fransico are sloping) and it's more interesting than to walk without seeing the lanscape i think...

so what do you think ??
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For our first trip in SF I propose to visit lot of think because it's a beautiful city. First we can pass and cross golden gate bridge because it's the most popular into the city. we can observe the sea the bay of SF and the bridge. After that we can go into SF because they are lot of think to visit, for example Haight-Ashbury is the hippie district with tags on the walls on the ground we can go to Haight-Ashbury park the place were hippies made a concert in 1967. After we can visit the gay district, into this district pedestrians pathways was colored in "rainbow". at this place in this district Harvey milk were the first elected supervisor, position similar to that of municipal councilor, openly homosexual of the city of San Francisco.we can take the emblematic cable cars. Into the city they are 51 stations for the cable cars. After that we can go to restaurants or fast food (salade tomates oignons chef !)
if others peoples have others ideas for our trip please said her . 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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       All your  ideas seem very good. I think discover Chinese culture might interest everyone. And food ! Chinese food is just amazing ! When you eat sushis, spring rolls or others specialties, you just can be happy and want more. Everyone will be in a good mood and we will spend a great vacation.
       Also, we must visit Chinatown because Chinese people are so warm. According to me, when you’re far from your family, it’s fine to feel quite at home. Chinatown can give us this feeling.

       There’s an other area where maybe we should go : The Castro. It’s the gay’s community capital. It,s  a place with tolerance, a liberty symbol. The Castro is one of the most festive area in San Francisco. You can go for a walk in happy streets, and there’s a lot of amazing parties to have a lot of fun with your friends.

I hope you will agree with me,
Thanks for reading  ;)

Laurie
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I definitely agree with all of you. There is so much to visit in San Francisco ! The Golden Gate Bridge is amazing, I cant wait to see it ! It was built in 1937 and is definitely quite historic. Did you know that the USA navy wanted to paint it black and yellow instead of the actual international orange ? Apparently they were scared it wouldn’t be visible enough in the fog, so they wanted it to be painted like a bumblebee ! How hideous ! Luckily they picked something else, I really like the orange !:P
While we’re there, I think we should also go visit the Alcatraz prison. I know you guys might think it’s a little dark and everything, but there is so much history there ! It’s where all of the most dangerous criminals were sent to prison, and no one could escape there with the San Francisco Bay all around and the rapids. It was really dangerous . We’ll have to take a boat to get there, so it’s also an opportunity to take a little boat trip and enjoy the great view and the sun! What do you think ? We could even have the opportunity to go under the Golden Gate bridge with the boat ! Wouldn’t that be great ? ;)
Let me know what you guys think,
Loïse
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I think the part of San Francisco that we can’t miss if we travel there is Chinatown.
From what we heard from « Wes » Chinatown is one of the most famous neighbourhoods in San Francisco.
People are surprised that Chinatown is an actual community where people actually live.
 We often have that stereotype of Chinatown being exotic by the media but Chinatown is in fact the largest Chinese community outside of Asia and the oldest Chinese neighbourhood of North America.
 When we usually think of Chinatown we think about fortune cookies but there’s a lot more. We start to discover Chinatown by diving through the alleys. Follow the inhabitants and observe where they go eating it’s usually where the good food is.
Once you get of the main street you can see in the back alleys where people go shopping, where the children go playing...
What make Chinatown so unique are also the traditional sounds we can here there such as the Chinese violin that produce those rich sounds you can hear in the streets. 
And if we go there we have to visit the 2 main local parks Mary’s square and Portsmouth. In those Parks there are a lot of fun activities we can do such as Dancing, Tai chi or even playing Mahjong … :)

What do you think ? :) I look forward for your answer
Bye
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