Saturday, September 01, 2007

Status quo...

Turns out blogspot doesn't automatically delete blogs if you don't post often enough. Damn. Utter shame, to have to look at your blog and suddenly realise that you're supposed to be updating it often.
5:40 AM. Staying up because I know that I won't get up in time if I go to sleep. I shall be leaving to Pondicherry in another 5 hours or so to watch the college bands performing at JIPMER. I missed the rock show, might as well watch the up and coming bands and make a day of it.
I quit Ajuba today (phew!). It sure was a nice place, but working there only made me realise that I'm not ready for work yet. I still want to be a student, crib about my books, cram the night before the exams and say that I needn't have bothered studying at all in the first place. Work is not boring, it's EXHAUSTING!! Well, that's that for now anyway and I now have a WHOLE 3 weeks to enjoy as much as possible, eat home food and be with my friends before I have to leave.
Update, I got my letter (finally!) from Dijon. Not much of a letter though, the only cinch is that I couldn't have applied for my visa without it. One down, million more things to do. The wait for the letter was irritating though, given the fact that they were sending it by snail mail, there was every chance that it'd be lost somewhere halfway through. Trust me, stuff like that happens to me. I just about managed to get to know that I'd been selected for this in the first place. We'd been sent e-mails about it back in February and had to confirm our participation by the 23rd; and I got to know that I'd been selected ON THE 23rd!!! The stupid lady at the French Embassy sent mine to the wrong e-mail address!!!
Given all that, getting the letter came as a big relief. Now I have to go through the whole process of replying to them and finding accomodation for the next 7 months. Oddly enough, I haven't begun to worry about actually being there and TEACHING 18-20 year olds. (Gulp!!)
The language and communication is not a problem. I know English well and French too (I have proof, I tell you!!), but getting through to a bunch of people who just might be terribly rebellious and end up chasing me out of class. I mean, what if they turn out to be like those students in "To Sir with Love"???? I'm sensitive...!!
What if I become home sick?? What if I feel lonely? What if I fall sick? What if I meet with an accident?? I have this recurring dream of me breaking a bone or two when I get there!!!
But the upside of it all is that learning French and mugging ALL those verbs and nouns and different grammar rules and going through ALL those exams and making all those presentations finally paid off. I'm not even remotely worried about how I'd teach the students, the only thing is WHAT will I teach them?! How are teachers patient enough? How do they deal with annoying questions and loud brash kids and irritating ones? I remember being a student at school and the friends I had. Being on this side of the table was fun and all, but what's it like over there?!!
Anyway....7 months will be up soon. I'll enjoy it as much as possible. It's France after all. I've been wanting to go there for a really really long time. So at the end of the day, I'm happy to be going, as long as I don't think about it often enough, I can't wait to have coq au vin and croissants and vin rouge, look at the Eiffel tower, walk around the Champs-Elysees and even see what the fuss over Mona Lisa is all about =).

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