The miracle of electronic communications makes it possible for students to e-mail images to me from France and Spain, and then berate me for not dedicating webpages to them. This morning I received an email saying, "I'm in France, and as a group we feel we have been forgotten about. We have not been on Chuck's Corner and we are very upset. From
Lucia and the rest of the France group." That's it? No "We miss you. Love, from everyone in France"? Here is the best picture they've sent so far. It's from Marseilles.
If you want to get your picture on this website, take a lesson from our students in Segovia, who send along the following image from Barcelona of a baby lobster (on Sam's shoulder) which they have purchased intent on saving. They apparently marched the tiny crustacean down Barcelona's spectacular, tree-shaded boulevard Las Ramblas to the Mediterranean, where it was liberated....left to rejoin other diminutive exoskeletals.
No word on its fate. The same group sends this image from a paseo por la playa de Cadiz.
It helps if the photograph conveys cultural enrichment or exchange. For example, in the this image, the group treats the people of Segovia to traditional American hacky-sack:
