Building LILANGELES: Meeting Our Les Lilas Pen Pals!

HOLA youth meet their Paris peers live via Zoom!

During Week 4 of the summer session, our HOLA teens had the wonderful opportunity to meet the Les Lilas teens they have been in conversation with through film. Over Zoom, our students logged into Zoom in small groups, seeing their penpals face to face.

With some translation between French and English, the students were able to bridge a virtual connection in real-time. They asked and answered questions amongst each other, remaining curious and kind. There were lots of laughs and smiles!

After so much adrenaline and excitement from meeting the Les Lilas students, HOLA students reviewed Christine's first round of edits of their third video letter in the making. They also worked on title cards for the video letter – words and designs drawn to include in the video letter credits and intro!

A title card made by one of our HOLA students, Joey! It includes everyone's shadow puppet character. :)