The Story So Far...

Well hello again!!!

It's been a while since I posted the last time, but oh lord I have never stopped for a single moment!!!

What is there to say... work carries on as usual, although it is always a surprise finding out what I will be doing the following week: the first three weeks I was a French as a Foreign Language teacher, then I became a French French teacher (to the small kiddos, kind of Yr 2 and 3), and now I am managing the radio after a (very short) time spent doing sports (never, EVER, again!!!).

In the past few weeks I have been as moody as I can possibly be... the first 4-5 weeks we had an amazing group of kids: all ages (and yes, even the teenagers!!!) just tried everything that was thrown at them!!! I must admit that with personalities like these work just becomes easy and enjoyable! Everything changed last week: a big school group arrived (10 kids), and honesty I can't wait for the moment they leave. They are rude, noisy, spoilt little sods who are just there to annoy me: most of my day is spent shouting at them, while my free time is spent collecting the food they have in the bedroom (yesterday I managed to confiscate a total of 20kg of anything and everything, which incuded breakfast cereals, sugar and milk powder...). This is becoming a nightmare now, and the sooner they leave the better!!! On the other side, the French kids that arrived this week to study English are a really good bunch, and if you forget the normal teenage issues then you can get along really well with them!!!

In other news...

I still have issues with the French keyboard: whoever thought that these symbols ,;:!&é"'(-_çà were more useful than these ?./12345677890 was probably eating to many escargots at the time and had some serious judgement issues!!!! Also all the letters are in the wrong place, and I can't do the accents I want...

I've now been to Paris 4 times, and I'm going again in the next few weeks, and I can't get tired of it!!! Two issues though: no vegetarian food for miles, and impossible to navigate the metro stations with the signs they've put up!!

Still waiting for news from Spain: I'm guessing the Ministerio de la Educacion (can't put the accent on a French keyboard...) is taking a summer-long siesta...

Hopefully there will be photos coming soon, but until then enjoy life!!!!!! :D