The Teacher AND the Student

So, school started, work started and my internship started. I'm a busy girl. Here's a rundown of my oh-so-exciting life at the moment. Monday: School, then internship. Tuesday: Teach all day, then internship. Wednesday: Sleep. Thursday: Teach, then school all day. Friday: Teach - but I'm off at 13h30 so I can start my weekend then. Yay!!

And since we all love pictures:

The hallway at one of my universities. (La Sorbonne) It feels like Harvard!

The courtyard of La Sorbonne - I am still in shock that this is a school.

Don't all schools have benches in front of murals in the hallway of the courtyard?

This is on the way to my school. It is on campus and that building all the way down the pathway is the Teacher's Lounge.

Go through the doors on the right and it will lead you to the campus of Lycée Lakanal.

The Parc and Château right behind my school.

This is a 'typical' lunch from a high school cafeteria in France. It wasn't 5-star, but it was DEFINITELY better than a lunch from a US high school. (PS. I did NOT eat the sausage thing).

This is one of my classrooms at the high school. It is typical here to switch classrooms regularly, so there isn't much on the walls in any of the classrooms.

That's the view towards the front. Every classroom has a platform thing for the teacher to stand on - just so that the kids remember who is in charge. :)

That's the view from the above classroom - It is the rest of the high school.

That's about it. I'll try to post most regularly since I keep getting lots of questions about it all, but for now I have to go shower and do homework. Gotta be in Sceaux by 9am ... and I am NOT a morning person.


Peace

Say Wha ... ?!?

My internet doesn't work. WTF?? I feel like I'm living in the 80s or something because at least in the 90s we had dial-up or whatever that slow thing was. (Where you had to disconnect once you were finished with your session because you were charged by the minute or something ... BTW, sorry dad!!) Anyway, so it's a little hard to write more often.

I started my internship last week - it was ok. Nothing too stressful nor too boring. It was fairly interesting and 2 out of 3 of the guys I worked with were pretty cool. Not too bad of odds.

School started today. I had my schedule perfectly worked out, but since the stupid school decided to give us a classroom the size of my bathroom at home for a class of at least 30 students, were now having issues. The professor tried to change the classroom, but the school is out of rooms. So they told her to start the class at 8 - she doesn't want to wake up that early on a Monday morning so I am pretty sure she is rejecting that offer. She is probably going to switch the day of the class. Joy. I am pretty sure that I can't do any other time she is wanting to. So, I am now holding off on buying the book because I am NOT paying for a book for a class I can't take. Lame. I have 4 more classes to go ...

I start teaching this week. Tomorrow is an "observation" day. We will see how that goes ... hopefully quickly!!!

Pray for me to get internet in my room again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... And for me to have something more interesting to talk about next time :) But at least you're now all pretty much up-to-date!

Peace