Kids, eh?

I forgot to share, over Christmas, something which happened on my last day of teaching before the holidays. I was talking to my CE1 class (the youngest in the school) about Christmas traditions that we have in the UK, and was telling them about the Queen's speech. Because they all seem to be pretty obsessed with the royal family out here, the teacher pounced on that and started talking generally about the Queen to the class. So she asked them what the Queen was going to be next summer, as it had just been announced that Kate was going to have a baby. One the kids, obviously slightly confused, went "Pregnant!"

I swear, I was so unprofessional, I just sat down and laughed till I cried. I felt a bit bad but I just couldn't stop myself. Fortunately the whole class seemed to find it hilarious, although I think after a while they were just laughing at how much I was laughing. Last Monday the teacher even brought it up again to the same boy who said it, which I thought was rubbing it in a bit unnecessarily.

In other news, I am very very distressed that I am not going to be able to see Les Mis for AGES. I thought last year that it was coming out in December, so I'd be able to see it over Christmas. Then I found out it was the middle of January, so I resigned myself to seeing it in French. However, it's not coming out here till the 13th February. FEBRUARY! Not. Impressed. At all.

Return to reality

Well a rather belated Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you all! (Do you see what I did there? I switched the 'happy' and the 'merry' round, but it didn't work, because people really do say Happy Christmas, and I don't like it at all, so I won't be doing that again.) I hope the holidays treated you, my doubtlessly huge readership, very well. I certainly had a very nice time, although it did seem to pass extremely quickly.

So I'm back in France after two very lovely weeks at home for Christmas. I'd like to say I'm pleased to be back, but I feel at the moment that would be a lie, mainly as my tasks for the day include a trip to the supermarket, taking down my Christmas decorations (also known as "the most depressing chore in the world") and a mountain-sized pile of laundry.

It will be nice, however, to see all my lovely well-behaved children tomorrow again, and once everything gets back to normal and I'm into the swing of things again and my laundry bag is empty I'm sure things will be just fine.

Obviously not much has happened to me yet on the next step of my Great Adventure, as I have only been back in France for approximately fourteen hours, so I will leave it there and just hope everyone is enjoying the start of the new year, and next time I will try and have something more interesting to say. A bientôt!