Today, I am not.
...Well, in French at least.
An update on the strikes, apparently this happens EVERY Thursday. Luckily, I called the elementary school I was supposed to observe today and someone went completely out of his way to pick me up and drive me to Juan-les-Pins. Totally nice of him. And then, he drove all of the assistants to our respective schools for the day.
Today I learned... Geography, spelling, fractions, etc. And it was kind of difficult to understand the children, but that's going to be part of my learning experience I suppose. Actually I learned how far behind the U.S. is in education! At seven years, the French are already learning geometry and the Pythagoran Theorem... we didn't get that until seventh GRADE (Age 13ish).
For now, I think I have to wait for the directrice to finish her class and then find someone who can drive me back home. Then I'm going to try to open up a bank account -- without the proper documents.
Doing everything so last minute like this is completely un-me!!! And it's totally freaking me out. Oh and, one last thing, I'll be working nearly 22 hours and can pay to eat at the schools' cafeterias. Today we had a really good salad, followed by this breaded white fish with lemon zest and then instead of mashed potatoes, mashed broccoli. It was actually quite good, along with the ice cream ;-) I'm still trying to figure out these French keyboards!
2 comments:
i live with a boy who's six and he's been going to school for 4 or 5 years already. he already has homework and weirder still, he's already in a routine of doing it, like he's been doing hw for years.
the french don't waste their time with school.
The funny thing is they just licenced a version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? to TV6 in France.
Someone already has won the E100,000 jackpot.
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