Wednesday 10th October
I'm currently in an internet café type thing in Valenciennes, (well I say café it's more somewhere for young people to find jobs and stuff, well thats what everyone else seems to be doing) and it's free, but only for 1 hour, so I don't have long. Valenciennes is a town about 1/2 hour away by train from Aulnoye, I ended up here, cos it's wednesday, and so the kids aren't in school, and I wanted something to do. In fact i've just spent the last 2 hours just wondering aimlessly round the town. I did manage to buy a landline phone, so at least when I get evrything set up, I'll actually have a phone to make calls on! But thats it! Theres no point me going into any shops cos i've barely got any money, I've got about €100 to last me till the end of the month!! Well I do have money in my English account but I was hoping to save that, just in case I don't get paid at the end of October, ( I should do but only if all the correct forms have been recieved by the head office in Lille by today. I filled them all in at the begining of last week, I just hope they all got sent off on time!) SO I was basically wondering whether I should either keep wondering round, or go back to Aulnoye, when I found this place! So now I have something to do for another hour yey!!!
I started work in the school yesterday, well I say work, all I actually did was sit in the back of the classroom "making notes" for 3 hours. They didn't even do any english lessons, they had maths and science lessons. The maths I just about managed to follow, but I had no idea what they were doing in science, It took me about 15mins to work out the were doing biology, and were talking about body parts!! I really have no idea how I suposed to be of any assistance to the teacher when I don't even know what it is they are doing!! I'm working again on Thursday afternoon, at least this time i think they are actually having an English lesson, Though it is their first lesson, so it's all in french anyway!
still haven't heard anything from the girls I met last week, so I think I'll be spending another weekend on my own
Sat should be ok cos I'm working, and then I thought I'd go see what the Swiming pool is like, and then I can always go tot the internet café I found the other day for a bit, Sunday I have no idea what to do, cos EVERYTHING is shut on sunday, seriously in a town with very little to do anyway, sundays are even worse cos there is nothing to do. I was so bored last week I ended up cleaning the flat!! Hopefully by next weekend I should have internet, so I can have something to do.I think that is the worse thing about being here, being on my own practically all the time, I meen the people in the office are nice enough, in fact eveyone I've met has been really really nice to me. But there is no one else I know who is my own age, even the other assistants live at least 15 min away by train, so it's not like I can just pop round to chat to them! I guess i'd gotten used to having people round me to talk to that being on my own is just a bit of a shock, i don't know, Right now I can't wait for Natasha and dad to come over during half term (she doesn't know yet so don't say anything!) not just cos I haven't seen them for ages, but also because it meens that for 3 whole days I'll actually have someone else to talk to!!!
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Ok so thats how i was feeling last wednesday, Read the post above, to see how it all changed.......!
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