Je Suis Contente Ici

Please note that I have corrected the name of my last post - thank you Albert for serving as my French police. :-)

So I had to end yesterday's post rather abruptly because my coordinator was in a hurry and I was going with her over to the middle school where I'll also be teaching to watch a play about what to do if a friend has problems with drugs and/or alcohol. It was really well done and even though I didn't understand a lot of it, the students were really engaged and well, I think good questions were asked that are smart to be asking when students are still 12, 13 years old, like: Can you have a (good) party without drugs and alcohol?

Anyway, enough of the moralizing.

So, it's beginning to set in that I am actually a teacher here - even though many of my students are no more than a couple of years younger than me. Yesterday, for example, I had lunch with some of the other teachers and we simply cut the lunch line and sat together in the teacher's section - where they have free wine for the teachers! Can you imagine that in an American public high school?

I also met my first group of students yesterday - they are BTS students, which means several things: They have finished high school (ages range from 18-21), they are on track to go into the techonology field, and they're mostly boys. I think it went all right, although their English, well, we have a lot of work to do. But my dear friends know that you are already a part of my teaching tactics here because I showed them photos of my life to remind them that I'm a real person, too.

BTW, there is an amazing café in downtown Brive with exquisite hot chocolate and waffles. Anyone who comes to visit, remind me and we'll go.

I apologiwe for the lack of pictures! They will come as soon as I can actually use my own computer!