Mercredi à Luz, la neige, les champions

Wednesday is traditionally a day off for French children, but le Collège des Trois Vallées holds some classes, as they have to share several specialists with two other towns, and scheduling becomes difficult over only four days of school.
Il a neigé!!!!!! (It snowed!!!!!)
We came to le collège for three morning classes, after which we took the group to explore the local Eglise fortifiée des Templiers, a fortified Templar church: a defense wall surrounds an enclave of land around the church, where the villagers would come for refuge during raids from Spanish brigands.
Students then went to their respective families, some to ice skate, and later go to the local bowling establishment.
The big news have been first the ski accident of François Thevenet, who was hosting Jordan. Today François came out of the hospital and rejoined his family, and Jordan came to have lunch at my sister's with us, before going back to his family, at l' Hôtel de la Brèche de Roland (the whole region is seeped in the legends of Charlemagne, who passed les Pyrénées at this spot with the Sarraceens on his heels, and whose nephew Roland of the Chanson de Roland's fame opened the mountain with his sword to let Charlemagne and his knights pass through) .
François is now well, but his family had quite a scare.
The other big news is that the snow boarding team of le Collège des trois Vallées is now Champion de France! Needless to say, I am very proud of my nephew Ambroise and of the Collège! This is quite a feat, because the Collège is quite small (only 6 classes) and competed against largest collèges such as the one from Chamonix, which boats the Mont Blanc' s slopes!
We are all celebrating!!!!