As of tomorrow I'll have been in France for 3 weeks. It's strange as I feel like I've been here so much longer, but I think that's just because I'm settling in. Also as of tomorrow it will be 3 weeks until Adam comes to see me, so halfway there, can't wait!
This week hasn't been that eventful, I worked, which was good, planned and taught my own lesson with very basic handmade resources, went down surprisingly well to say I thought it was pretty boring! And on tuesday evening me Abbi and Beth went to see a family about doing some babysitting/English tutoring. The family were adorable, kids aged 1,3,7, and 10, and they'd lived in Scotland for 5 years, only returning to France last year, so they're wanting help with keeping up the kid's English. Their house was amazing, pool in the back garden and everything! So I'm really looking forward to starting to work with them on tuesday.
Also, I visited my third school for the first time on Friday. It's a nice school, a bit more modern than the others (actually have whiteboards instead of chalkboards!!) and it's right next to some sort of farm so you can watch chickens wonder round in a field whilst teaching!The teacher there is lovely too, actually had English lessons planned and seems to enjoy teaching it. She also said that if I ever want to try teaching the whole class I could, but if not, I didn't have to, which was nice of her. The class worked well, we effectively did the same lesson twice as the class is split in 2 and half go out to work on the computers while the others do English, then they swap, which is good as it means the groups are a lot smaller.
On friday evening we went to see Taken 2 at the cinema, dubbed in French of course! Don't think it was quite the same effect in French but managed to understand most of it hurray! Then on saturday a few of us took a trip to Lourdes. It was nice, a lot of pretty buildings and churches, but also a lot of sick people making the pilgrimmage there, which was quite sad to see. Realised just how unfit I am when after walking up and down a spiralling staircase my legs were trembling and aching! Granted it was pretty steep!
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| Having a drink in 'Le Garage' |
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| Friends at the top of the castle in Lourdes |
Then in the evening we had a night out, 'pregamed', (as we now call predrinking thanks to our American friends), in the kitchen, which was really fun, and resulted in us all being just a little bit (ok maybe more than a little bit) tipsy for the bus ride to town. The rest of the night was great, me and Beth could finally apprectiate the Europpean music after learning 'Ai se eu te pego' beforehand. apparently it was a massive hit in the summer but neither of us had heard of it before last week! Definitely a new favourite now though!!
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| The killer spiral staircase! |
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| Lourdes |
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| The funiculaire from town to the train station |
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