The biggest thing I have ever seen is The Eiffel Tower. When you get to the top, you can see the whole city of Paris. In the day, you can see the cheerful pastel colors of quaint apartment buildings and in the nighttime you can see the shimmering seine and glittering lights. For 10 minutes at the beginning of each hour, starting at 8 pm, the white lights flash. With the golden glow the tower always has and the sparkling bright lights, it looks unreal against the black night. Standing directly under it, you can see the intricate detail and amazing architecture and radiating glow of the Eiffel Tower. There are souvenir shops, Metro and bus stops, and crepe stands along the way. My favorite thing to get is Nutella crepes and Amarino gelatto.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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