The future and the past (week)

Hi all,

There’s still plenty of stuff going on from day to day here, but I’ve been feeling a bit lonely because of the intensity of time I spent with people when I was on holiday.

I’ve been concerned about planning ahead a bit as my contract finishes in little more than two months!! So the latest news on that is that I’m applying to extend my contract at the schools until the end of May/mid-June. I have to pluck up courage to speak to the two Heads this week about that, I need a ‘Yes’ from each of them, plus then a ‘Yes’ from the local education authority. It’s not necessarily easy to get that, but I’d really like to stay on.

I have just received some good news regarding the summer. I will be going back to Le Pas Opton to work there for the main summer holiday period which I’m really happy about. If you don’t know, it’s a holiday campsite in the Vendée region of France (think roughly half way down the West coast of France and it’s not far from there) which is run by a UK organisation called Spring Harvest Holidays (linked to Spring Harvest, but not that similar!). It’s mainly British Christians who go there on holiday and it’s a fantastic place. If you want to know more, don’t hesitate to ask me, I love talking about it!

Over the past week I’ve had lots of sleep and done varying enjoyable and not-so-enjoyable activities, not getting as much work done as I wanted but making some progress. The weekend just gone was great. On Friday night I had Laurence and Hughes round for dinner. Then on Saturday I hung out with a friend from CU and church, Nathan, we ate lunch then went for a walk around the citadel and zoo. Later on I went to a crêpe party and sleepover at my friend Lucile’s flat. What was supposed to be four girls in the initial planning turned out to be two of us, but we still had a great time together :) On Sunday I went to church twice and had youth group planning.

On Monday afternoon I went back to school and unfortunately one of the teachers who I was supposed to be with had forgotten me and had planned to go off with her class to take part in some interaction project and I asked her if I could help but apparently there wouldn’t have been any point in that. It’s not the first time I’ve been forgotten as it’s hard for the teachers to keep up with my three week timetable. It’s now getting on my nerves because of the amount it’s happened. I know it’s nothing personal, but hey… So I was at school for three hours and taught one, which didn’t even go that well. Here’s to Thursday and Friday going better!

Fiona x