As of 4:00 pm yesterday, I am a chômeurette (unemployed)! I had my last class as a teaching assistant (woo-hoo!!!)--showed a cute little powerpoint of my life in the U.S.--said goodbye to the kids and teachers, gave out baked goods, and peaced out. :) It was a little sad saying goodbye since I actually liked Collège Jean de Verrazane. The teachers even said I was their best assistant ever!!! I think it was the delicious chocolate chip banana bread I gave them though that really did the trick... Below are two pictures: the first is of my favorite kid, Maxime, on the left (even though he was a student at Jean Perrin), and the second is of one of my contact teacher's classes at Jean de Verrazane. My contact teacher, Evelyn, is second from the right in the back row. Super nice, but always super busy.
So yeah, a little sad, but honestly, I'm excited to be done. No more lesson planning, no more feeling invisible in the teacher's room, no more trying in vain to get 15-year-olds to care about English. Yay!!!!! AND, even more exciting is the fact that I'm off gallivanting to Prague tomorrow for a week and to Cinque Terre in Italy for four days after that!!! Culture and history in a city I've been dying to get to forever, followed by hiking and breathtaking villages built into mountains on the Italian coast. Sublime.
So, not that I've been super in touch on the good old blog recently, but I definitely won't be adding any more posts for a week and a half. :) Bon voyage to me!
A teacher rarely knows their value or worth until they leave...Bonne chance on the next chapter! Je t'aime beaucoup and I miss you a whole lot and a million! ta mere!
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