I hope you are all doing well back in the good ole USofA! My new friend Caely, who comes from Michigan, and I arrived Thursday afternoon in our town (Montlucon), slighly worse for the wear after lugging luggage through 3 Paris metro trains, a two and a half hour train ride and then another 2 hour bus ride; but we managed to make it in one piece, luggage and all! :)
Most French high schools often have places of residences for some of their teachers and teaching assistants, and that is my new semi-permanent home. It is nice being on the campus of the high school, because nothing is very far away. It is also nice to be there because the other language assistants are living there as well. There are four in total- 2 Americans, 1 Austrian and 1 Spanish. Our conversations are very interesting from day to day, as Jose, the Spanish assistant, does not speak much English, and the other American assistant does not speak much French; but with the help of hand gestures, visuals, and lots of "Comment dit-on ______ en francais?" we manage to get by.
School here in France has been in session for about a month, and tomorrow I will get to observe one of the classes I will be assisting. Everyone here thus far has been nothing but gracious, kind and extremely helpful, including Jose, who really is completely bilingual, having lived in Paris for 12 years (maybe we depend on him a bit too much right now! ;)).
As much as I am loving being in this country right now, please know I miss all of you back in the States! Perhaps the next time I write I will have some pictures that I could show you of my new life here in France!
A bientot!
Heather
Love it all. and now you can practice your Spanish. i just met a girl from Quebec, so i'm going to start with my french!
ReplyDeleteHi Heather, glad to hear about your adventures, sending our love-Joan, Tim, Sean and matt
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