EEkkk! The computer says the temperature is -12!! I think this may be an exaggeration, but when I got outside it was very fresh and everything including glass bus shelters etc were all pure white! This wasn’t like a haw frost though, hard to explain but different and bitterly cold! Thank god I found my gloves!
This morning I met one of the College teachers in town as we were going to an inservice training. She said at her place on the South terrace it was -7 so very well is correct temperature.
It turned out that we went to a picture theatre and joined another 15 teachers from around the district. A man got up and lectured to us for about 30 minutes (naturally in French) I had thought it might have had some English as Pascale is an English teacher and I had assumed everyone else would be English teachers too – WRONG! Some were music, graphics and art, film studies teachers. The film began – Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest – In English (wahoo) with French Subtitles. At least I could understand the movie! I then found out that the students are going to study this movie and we will bring the students to it in a weeks time!
In the afternoon I left to go to the Lycee – just as well, I couldn’t sit listening to that guy go on any longer, it nearly put me to sleep in the theatre.
I had a meeting with one of the English teachers at the Lycee for a lesson on Friday afternoon – this was ok. I also put notes in other English teachers P.H. to see if they will finally give me times!
Today the girls took Marmite to their English classes for tasting. You can imagine the reactions and the looks on the faces. Hermione managed to get a few photos but Seph unfortunately hasn’t been able to take any photos yet.
Back to searching for Xmas houses – have sent an email to 1 house on the edge of a National park down in the Languedoc region that is reasonably priced – it will still mean we are on our own but better than being here. I haven’t managed to find anywhere for us to go where there will be others.
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