Saturday - shopping to stock up on food.
Sunday - Pique nique with Rachel.
Monday - Hagan Daas Ice cream with Rachel.
Tuesday - Lycee. 8am - Isabelles terminales who I have only ever met once actually came today - shock horror. I then had an hour free before the 2 terminale girls. Thibauld, who I normally see at 13h came to say he wouldn't be able to come today so I was able to go home for lunch. I went back to Lycee for Agnes terminales at 14h but they didn't come. I see nothing's changed. I'm still being forgotten. I then had mes secondes - classe de merde. I did a new year's resolution poem with them which leant itself well to the future tense using 'will'. I then went home.
Wednesday - I spent the day with Rachel and Louise, the sales started so we went round a few shops. Louise had her new cours de conversation at 17h and afterwards I met up with her again for a coffee.
Thursday - back at Lycee but not until 9am as my BTS I normally see at 8h are on work experience. I did the new year's resolution poem with my anglais renforce at 9h. I then did binge drinking with Olivia's terminales at 10h. Then I had a BTS class at 11h. I had two hours then until a second class of anglais renforce where I did Roald Dahl's short story - The Hitch hiker. After this class, at 15h I had a class of secondes. I then had my private cours de conversation with Camille where I helped her with some homework.
Friday - I met Rachel at Rond Point at 10h30 and then met Angeline for lunch afterwards. I went out for lunch with Angeline and afterwards we did a spot of shopping. I bought a bag from Accessorize that I'd seen before Christmas but was now in the sale with 50% off. I then had my cours de conversation at 17h30.
Saturday - I was supposed to be volunteering Les Restos du Coeur but due to a shortage of volunteers it was cancelled.
Sunday - Shoe shopping with Rachel and Louise. Rachel needed a pair of shoes to accommodate her bandaged toe - she decided it'd be a good idea to remove her toe nail the morning she was coming back to Marseille...
Qui êtes-vous ?
- Gill
- I'm an ex-student. A vegetarian ex-student. A vegetarian ex-student who studied English Language and French at the University of Sussex in Brighton. I spent the 2007-8 academic year on my year abroad (in Marseille, France) which is when I started the blog. It was a way of keeping my family and friends back in England updated with what I was up to without racking up gigantic phone bills. I enjoyed my degree. I originally wanted to be an EFL Teacher, I even did the CELTA. I still get excited about grammar, about the present perfect continuous and phrasal verbs. But it's not a career I want to fall into. I love speaking French too and learning new words. Now I've finished my degree I miss my Student Discount. I miss my title of 'Student' too. I'm a Project Worker now, a far cry from an EFL teacher. I've swapped my international students for rough sleepers and my text books for substance misuse and harm minimisation leaflets. I've decided to stay in Brighton, for a while at least. I might do a Masters, you never know. But, at present, I'm quite happy being a Project Worker. I'd still like to travel mind, maybe teaching as I go. But we'll see - at present I'm just fine where I am.