Thursday, October 23, 2008

Mercredi le 22 octobre


This is just 1 of the yoghurt only aisles! Seph and Nev are in the distance.



A bargain - 24 bottles for 4.46 Euros!

Wow – Wednesday already! A sleep in for everyone, the girls need it the school day really takes it out of them. I am really so proud of them settling into school with not much hassle really, The children all seem so polite and friendly. Willing to strike up a conversation with me whenever they see me, it is really nice. If all the Alexandra Primary School pupils could learn some very basic manners, adults always correct – children never answer back or question their teacher or parents. Greet people and help strangers/ visitors to the school it would make such a nice atmosphere – not saying some students don’t but on the whole the French children’s discipline seems stronger.

The whole time I have been here I have not once seen jeans hanging low so you can see boxers / butt cracks! Boys also carry “handbags” / money pouches for their wallets, bus passes, MP4/ ipods and other things.

The weather was terrible, heavy rain, so we spent the day finishing scrapbook pages and then

headed out to the big shopping centre as the girls have to have their own little whiteboard and pens €2 (great idea – use them in class for all sorts of things – I could imagine them in all our rooms as standard equipment on the stationery list.. Perfect at numeracy teaching time – like our modelling

book and they can write answer and show etc… Juniors can practice writing, giving answers – a real multitude of uses.) On one side lines for writing the other side blank, came with little duster and pen holder. YES!! I do know some teachers do use in NZ but this seems standard here.

We also needed to buy a paint kit – every child has to have their own paint kit – metal tubes of all the colours and brush all housed in a plastic kit. €5.

Out at the shopping centre they also have the ticketing office for many things – had to resist the James Blunt concert tickets – but did buy our Euro Disney tickets and also…..Cirque de Moscou on Glace – Moscow Circus on Ice tickets for later in November here in Besancon. Been dying to go to a high quality “Cirque” performance so this is it! Better be good and not just jugglers and hula hoopers!


Nev thought these were great big steaks - HORSE meat!


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