Orientation Details

Today, orientation details have been released, so check your emails! The information is not more informative than what we were given in our acceptance packets earlier this year, but it is a nice reminder that we must indeed go to our schools on the 03 October to begin working.

In any case, we should have contacted our coordinators by now so that he or she could plan our schedules. I have met the English faculty and the English coordinator at my Lycée should have my schedule completed by tonight. I can only hope he is flexible with my university class schedule. If he is not, I will be very disappointed, considering we work for very little pay that we won't even begin seeing this money until December.

Visiting Lycée Michelet

 Lycée Michelet

Today I met the entire department of English at Lycée Michelet. Although I begin working in October, I thought it would be a decent idea to introduce myself a bit earlier than necessary.

Firstly, the building: the building itself is a historical building, huge with a large, green park. I feel like I am about to work inside of a chateau, a French castle! The interior is clean and sturdy. Compared to the peeling paint at the university of Nanterre (Paris X) or the complete neglect of the university of Saint-Denis (Paris VIII), Lycée Michelet is a palace!

The faculty had been expecting me to come for lunch on Tuesday, but I misunderstood and came on Monday. In the end, it was not a problem. I sat with the instructors while they ate their lunches. Most of them bring bagged lunches, because they detest the cafeteria food here. We talked about what I would be expected to do, my university studies, class sizes and even current popular movies. We spoke more French than English, but I heard Australian, English and American accents quite evenly distributed among the nine instructors.

Not too much more to add to the story. I stayed for perhaps an hour and a half, promised to give them my university schedule as soon as possible and wished them a good day.

Now, I'm off to finish my day with the preparation of my first attempt at a beuf bourguignon. I hope Anthénaume enjoys it!