Westotel Nantes - Atlantique, France Loire Valley

... were fab...really nice day walking around. Jason decided to watch villa on the internet instead of going to local french soccer game. they lost 2-1, maybe its better if he doesn't watch as they seemed to do better the last few games when he wasn't watching. Had a really good dinner tonight, regional specialty (crepes again) with apple cider.

heading south again tomorrow, and we'll see how far we get and where we end up.

... about being locked in the toilet on the way into the room?)...

Mike, glad to see Chelsea are keeping you happy. I still think you'll be trophy-less come May 2010.

Gaz, thanks for the kind words.

Funny thing happened in Nantes tonight. I was enjoying a fruity crepe (no!! I said CREPE) in a local establishment with Jamie when a couple of heavy-set geezers marched past us. In fact they were so hard looking, they reminded me of a couple of sorts Gary ...

... in the middle. Anyways, we only spent about an hour in town, was not too lively. I think we made the lady's day at the tourist office as we were probably her only clients that day....then back in the car heading south......i keep asking jason if he's ******* on the drive down when the top is down as we have gone through some really stinky patches, but he is blaming the cows in the countryside that we are passing....not sure, do u think it was the cows or jason?????

... after tearing that apart we had some wonderful clips to work with. Sewing them together with some spare nylon cord made a great synch strap for the bag.

Our compression bags are also showing some wear. Brain is so good as compressing them as tight as possible that the material is beginning to rip. This is easily repaired with some more nylon chord as well. Hopefully this will last us for a little while longer!

... out of pity and they both had 9 be quiet men up. My bad class was average. I kicked one girl out and that made things better. They still didn't earn a star though. I think when they see that my Croix Jeannette classes are earning stars they will make more of an effort. OH! I forgot to write about the most appalling part of the day. I was about to go to my other school when Cedric (the only male teacher) stopped me. He said that Vanessa was waiting outside ...

... no), What's a male turkey called? (Tom), Do turkeys fly? (Domestic ones don't, wild do), What's a gizzard? (the turkey's stomach), stuff like that. It was a fun little activity. Then we took a break I guess and just sat around talking. It was an ok time. David kept pausing and translating for me, I felt really bad. I didn't think I needed a translator, but whenever he said the story in English it suddenly made sense, even though I thought that I'd understood it when it was told ...

... We have school today, but not Tuesday or Wednesday. How do they expect anything to get done? Of course the kids are going to be crazy, they just have one day of school then practically another weekend. Plus Mondays are always bad anyway. This was probably the worst day of teaching I'd had so far. My first three classes were disgusting. They would not shut up and I wanted to smack them all. Well, almost all of them. They did actually learn something today though, so that ...

... them as if they haven't had English before and just teach them everything again. This class is a little rowdier than the other classes, and we have to be quieter because the teacher is just in the next room with some other students. It's frustrating. One kid threw a glue stick at another kid and the other kid (Lohann) started bawling. It was awful. I think I prefer high school students. After that class I had about an hour and a half for lunch, so I started walking around Bouguenais ...

... our schools today and plan times for us to observe. Valérie is the English teacher I was watching when I observed on Monday. She's got a bad tan and speaks so quickly. At least this time it was in Franglais and not just French. So if I had a question and I didn't know how to say it in French, I could still get my point across. We hopped in her car to go get some lunch before we met with the Inspector. Cas wanted to go to MacDo but I totally vetoed it, we went instead to a mall ...

... un film français qui les laissera plutôt froides, tandis que je vais voir "L'Âge de glace 2" ("L'ère de glace" chez nous). Je rigole un max, et en sortant (en avance sur les girls), je suis devant le plus gros oeuf de Pâques de ma vie (200 Euros, au moins 70 centimètres de haut) ; après avoir rejoint mes compagnes, je leur montre. Ensuite, il est près de 18 heures, la faim s'empare de nous : je vais goûter mon premier kebab (viande, sauce et laitue ...