Still nervous!!! Up early and a lazy morning before going to school. Pascale read my introduction (in French) and I’d only made one mistake! Ok yes it was only short but still, only one mistake.
Pascale is full of cold but still coming with me today. We walked to school this time and it’s a lot closer to where Pascale lives than I had thought when we went by car. Through a lovely little garden and past the old city walls. We met Martine and went for lunch in the teachers dining room. Lovely food. Three courses. I had salad, then fish and vegetables, then dessert which was a piece of cake AND a piece of lemon tart. There was roast duck on the menu too!
Then it was time to teach! I had prepared FAR too much!!! In France these days students can choose to take some of their lessons in English. Pascale’s son, for example, is doing his maths classes in English. So, in this class I spoke in English for a while then Martine asked the class what they had understood and encouraged them to speak in English- asking questions etc. I told them about my career, my qualifications, favourite areas etc. Then I talked about elderly care in the UK including prevention of hospital admission, reablement and residential and nursing care. The students in the class all had experience of placements in care settings and so we compared things like cost of care. It seems the cost for private care here is around the same as it is in England.
I did the same talk twice to both halves of the group. In the second group there was a student who was the spitting image of Will’s friend Bethany, including the red lipstick! I kept expecting her to say « eeh! I’d love a burrito » (Bethany famously delayed a cultural excursion to the Rosslyn Chapel because a new burrito place was opening that morning in Edinburgh and were giving away free burritos; imagine this said in her lovely Durham accent and you’ll realise why it was so memorable) Anyway the student didn’t ask for a burrito so it definitely wasn’t Bethany!
One student was interested to hear how I got my first practice nurse job and what the training consists of to do the job today. I was also asked what my current job is. I said I don’t have one because I am travelling around France and there were some exclamations when I said I was travelling alone!
And so it was over. My foray into the classroom. I enjoyed it with hindsight and was disappointed that I hadn’t got to say everything I had wanted to. It also, because of my background, seemed like a missed opportunity, in a classroom full of teenagers, not to be delivering a talk on contraception, relationships etc. I meant to ask Martine afterwards if that is part of the curriculum but forgot. I’ll ask her on Wednesday when we go to Rennes.
I went to the station to buy my ticket for Wednesday today as the ticket office closes at 11am and I will still be on my way back from Richard’s then.
FaceTime with the LSMP girls- lovely 🙂
Did Day 2 Week 2 C25K- hard again as running on consecutive days and should have a rest day but won’t be able to run tomorrow or Wednesday- too busy!
Homemade soup from Pascale for tea. Yum! Thank you 🙂
Bonne nuit 🙂
Jane’s Tour de Force 