Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School 6th graders visit Mariquita Farm. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

de la couleur et du soleil... même en hiver

An old build for Eurobricks' BOBS

Menlo School students provide community service at the SF Marin Food Bank. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School students provide community service at the SF Marin Food Bank. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students at work in the Applied Science Lab. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School students visit Google headquarters. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Serge Lavalette "SLQ Groove Band" at Jazz Café Montparnasse, december 2018

Menlo Middle School students provide community service at the Opportunity Center. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Serge Lavalette's Groove Band at Jazz Café Montparnasse, Paris, january 2020

Menlo Middle School 6th grade retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School 6th grade retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School students provide community service at the SF Marin Food Bank. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students at work in the Applied Science Lab. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students at work in the Applied Science Lab. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

avril 2001

Malta, Valletta, Saint George's Square : The Palace (Grandmaster's Palace) - balcony

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

A 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 (high roof/144" wheelbase) cargo van chassis. Ambulance conversion by Demers Ambulances of Beloeil, Quebec. This ambulance is in service with Lavalette Volunteer Fire Department in Lavalette, West Virginia.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

small boathouse and warehouse on the beach, Lavalette. Property of RNTC

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School 6th grade service learning field trip to Collective Roots in East Palo Alto. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School 6th graders break open a pinata filled with candy. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

17th September 2022., Luqa Airport, Malta

At the Lavalette docks, as the army mustered for war, a crane-line broke, depositing hundreds of poisonous tree frogs all across the harbor.

Menlo School students provide community service at the SF Marin Food Bank. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School Spanish teachers, Katie Barad and Marisa LaValette. Photo by Pete Zivkov.

Menlo School 6th grade service learning field trip to Collective Roots in East Palo Alto. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School hosts a parents brunch and yoga class as a fundraiser. Photos by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School 6th graders visit Mariquita Farm. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo Middle School students practice their Spanish language skills by going shopping at Mi Pueblo market. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

de la couleur et du soleil... même en hiver

Menlo School Spanish teachers, Katie Barad and Marisa LaValette. Photo by Pete Zivkov.

Menlo School Spanish teachers, Katie Barad and Marisa LaValette. Photo by Pete Zivkov.

Menlo Middle School's Spanish language students learn to make pupusas in the demonstration kitchen. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

Menlo School 6th grade service learning field trip to Collective Roots in East Palo Alto. Photo by Marisa LaValette.

This was an amazing find in Villebois-Lavalette when we visited in November - a 16th Century covered wooden marketplace. According to Wikipedia, it was restored in the 19th Centuy and is now an historic monument.