This week was a busy week at work. Not only did the older kids come back, we also had the announcement that we had to fill in all the end of term school reports - not an easy task when we haven't seen the pupils since March ! - and the end of year skills assessments for the end of the week. You can tell how busy I was as I didn't even get a chance to blog all week ! The oldest pupils will now come in all week, rather than in two half classes - I hope they've thought about it as I'm not entirely sure they'll fit in the classrooms that have been set up with widely-spaced desks. Oh well, only three weeks to go until the end of term !
Sunday 7th June - It was Mother's Day in France and I wasn't really expecting anything. The kids had been super organised in secret though. Sophie had ordered a gift online, Juliette had wrapped and hidden it and Pierre made a card. I was very impressed with their organisational skills, not to mention the present itself. Awww !
Monday - Back to work with an earlier start at 8.30am, rather than my usual 10am start on a Monday. That would have been fine but from 9.30 until 11am, I was kicking around in the staff room with nothing to do - pffff ! I decided to head into town after work to try to find out what is going on with our summer holiday. Our planned holiday to the Dominican Republic is doubtless cancelled, but I'd like to know what to do to get the money back ! Unfortunately, the recently re-opened travel agent's was shut early, so I'll have to try later in the week. They had an email in the window though so I might give that a try.
Tuesday - Another day at work. Only half an hour for lunch, then I discovered that there were big computer issues in my next classroom. Aaaggghh ! This happens every time I have class in this room. Time to make up another lesson at the last minute :-/ Got home and made a sausage casserole, throwing in a tin of red kidney beans that the kids wouldn't notice !
Wednesday - A day off - phew ! I decided to take a minute to email the travel agent's. They got back to me and said they'd contacted their partners and would get back to me as soon as they heard from them. Nobody really knows what is going on. Sophie is keeping an eye on Eurostar and the ferries too, as she wants to come back to France as soon as she can, now that she's finished her studies until September. I can't remember what I did for the rest of the day to be honest - oh, I know, I filled in all my school reports. I went to grab some shopping and took a picture of this angry-looking seagull on the way !
Thursday - For the first time in about three months, I met up with my friend Isabelle during my lunch break and we went to a restaurant. It felt weird as it's a big place and they've removed half of the tables. You have to wear a mask to walk into and out of the restaurant but you can take it off once you're sitting down. There are no menus, except one on the wall (luckily we know the menu !) and there's no salt and pepper on the tables. Apart from that, it was about the same as usual. Lovely to catch up, although it seems weird being out now ! On my way back to work, I took a picture of the clouds in the sky. There were long horizontal ones at the bottom and mackerel spot clouds cutting across the sky diagonally, which looked pretty cool.
Friday - A weird day at work. I had the morning off so I only had two hours of lessons with a half hour break in the middle. (Timetables have been set up with staggered starts and different breaktimes, so that there's only ever one class in the playground and toilets at a time.) For my first hour, the librarian asked if she could come in and talk to the kids for a while ... which ended up being the whole lesson. After waiting around for the second hour, I headed into the classroom, set up the mouse and keyboard (we all have our own now, to avoid sharing equipment), did the register then saw a message telling me that due to the new timetable kicking off, I had to let the kids go half an hour earlier than planned. This meant I only had about 20 minutes of actual lesson time with them - agggghhh !
Saturday - Juliette had an appointment at the orthodontist's ... at 8.40am. Aaagghhh ! It made us get up and make the most of the day though. This is the first time that Juliette has set foot outside of the house in about three months, so I dragged her to the beach for a walk then we headed into town for a quick look around. She had leg ache afterwards - tee hee hee !
