Joseph Lambert at "La Réserve à Bulles"

Hey everybody!

Well I know it has been a while since we met Joseph Lambert (the 2nd & 3rd of December) but I didn't find time to write an article about this enriching experience. Loic already wrote an article about the translation at school and I don't think I have anything to add to what he wrote. So I'll rather talk to you about the day after the translation at school where we got to translate in a cartoon shop in Marseille : La Réserve à Bulles". This time, we were only 3 translators so we would have more work. After school, all 3 of us walked to this shop to meet the team and do what we had to do! We all got along very well with the author and it was very good for all of us that he didn't have any special accent from the South of America and that he wasn't speaking as fast as some people do. The library was very cute and I advice all of you to go take a look if you enjoy cartoons. Around 6.30 pm we started translating for Mr Lambert. Some cartoon addict came to listen to this cartoonist and it was very interesting. Nathan, Quentin and I were all helping one another to translate something if we didn't remember because sometimes Joseph Lambert spoke a lot so we had to take lots of notes and remember what he said. It is a very good memory exercise!

Here is a picture of the conference (we can see that Quentin was very determined!) :

After some time of "Conferencing" the spectators had the chance to ask Mr Lambert questions about particular aspects of his books. I loved translating back and forth to assure a communication between two persons. At the end of the meeting, Joseph drew some cartoon to us and we continued talking. He is a very nice and inspiring person who has, I think, taught something to all of us. The Library was so nice that they offered us the book Mr Lambert was introducing and we all felt really greatful for that.

To conclude, we can all say that it was a very interesting new experience and I would love to do it again because even though it requires lots of attention, it is very fun to do.
Thanks to every person who helped us to get involve in such an adventure!

Write to you soon,
Céline