[femme gauche]

I visited it in a mini-exchange program when I was in fifth grade (10 years old). A class full of kids learned basic french over the course of the year, hosted a class of french students for a couple of weeks, and then we all went over to France to stay with them for a couple of weeks. It was fun. But my host family, though they were nice and all, they had horses, and they went to take care of them almost every day (they lived somewhere else) and as a result we didn't do much. Also it was Aix-En-Provence (or at least that's where their school was, but being that it was a charter, the kids were mainly from surrounding suburb-type areas) - that's in the south, about ... 30 minutes or so from the Mediterranean. Nowhere near Paris. It seems lovely but no particular draw for me...