So I don’t work at the lycée on Tuesdays… and it’s a welcome day of recovery and preparation! Yesterday – Monday- was a long old day! – Four lessons in the morning back-to back; a mix of 1ere (including Harry for one lesson!) and 2nde ; a mix of first, second, third and fourth lessons;…
Day three at lycée, and it was hard to get up this morning! Saw Beth and Arty off to college, said goodbye to poor Harry still recovering from his wisdom teeth extraction… and drove to Monistrol through the pelting rain to tackle day three. Had a nice second lesson with my smallest Premiere class (only…
A 6am start – well that’s a shock to the system at the best of times! Two good classes with the Secondes (14/15 years old)… followed by a tricky afternoon class. I’ve now met all but one class of my 147 pupils (how will I ever remember their names!!) Whilst the Premieres feel like young…
So survived Day One… am just a little tired now!! It all went swimmingly – I loved it! (Thankfully!) Very different from teaching adults, but really rewarding. Got lost at the end of my first three lessons trying to find the staff room… but found it in the end! Topped off the day with a…
I’m very excited to report that I’m about to become the new Prof D’Anglais at Harry’s Lycée –Leonard De Vinci in Monistrol. Starting on Wednesday 2nd November, I’m taking over from Emilie who’s on Maternity Leave. I’ll have seven classes of 16-18 year olds; I’ll be writing reports… seeing parents at parents evening… hanging out in…
Just a quickie – I’ve been setting up a new Welcome to the World website chronicling our family adventure of 2007/2008 – transferring the site content and all the travel blogs (one by one – there are more than 200!) from our old ‘.org.uk’ website before we shut it down. I haven’t finished the blogs…
OK – That’s too long without a post! Here we are on the 1st of October, and today is a day to celebrate! Not for any particular news or progress on the myriad of projects I want progress on, but today has just been so breathtakingly beautiful. I took a walk this morning- needed to…
So.. 1.We’ve finished the re-edit of If you ever get to heaven… after the most exciting , creative and satisfying few weeks of Joe and I tweaking and adjusting – adding new music, trimming frames… the kind of detail that I find absolutely delicious… Now it’s time to get it out there! And that’s coming…
On May 3rd 2011 at 11.15pm I lost my father. He died peacefully at home, with my Mum by his side, one month after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer… A month during which he managed to see or talk on the phone to all of his ten grandchildren; preparing them for what was about to…
One thing my life has taught me is never to fear a change of plan! I started this blog last September with an eager desire to take the family on a US Roadtrip this summer. Well the year has headed in a different direction, and it’s clear that we won’t be making the trip this summer. My…