Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 May 2011

la fin

it has just stricken me that am leaving france, officially, tomorrow.
and this is for the first time when i fly out of france.
i'm not returning after a 2-week break.
borrowing a line from the spanish tourism ad, "i need this trip to last forever. i need france."
there's so much i haven't seen, so much i haven't done.
i know that i will come back.
i just hope that this day comes rather soon.
gros gros bisous.
tu vas bcp me manquer.

Friday, 29 April 2011

this is it - la fin de toutes les bonnes choses.


i've had lots of kisses, hugs, tears, laughters, sweets and love today.
thanks my kids.
you'll always have a very special place in my heart.
i love you all.
xxx

Friday, 1 April 2011

how many fish (or sharks) did you have on your back today?


it's the 'poisson d'avril' today, literally, the fish of april.
kids will follow you around sneakily and try to stick a poisson on your back today.
i noticed that some teachers didn't take the poissons off.
it was hilarious, seeing paper fish flying in wind on the back of a very serious teacher.
then there were these 2 interns who had like 10 fish (sharks) on the back!!!
it was like a competition.
i had 3, only.

Thursday, 31 March 2011

la chorale


one rainy morning, my kids were lining up as usual.
someone ran to me, "maîtresse, il y a clara qui pleure."
i went up to clara and asked what was going on.
"je veux pas aller a l'ecole." poor clara couldn't finish her sentence without swallowing every second word. (i don't wanna go to school.)
"pourquoi pas?" (why not?)
"parce qu'il y a la chorale aujourd'hui." (cos there's music class today.)
"mais oui, c'est bien, la chorale, non?" (but it's cool, no?)
"non, j'ai peur de la maîtresse a la maternelle." (no, cos i'm scared of the teacher from kindie. - NB: it's the kindergarten teacher from right next door who does music. most primary schools have a kindergarten right next door. it's called "le groupe scolaire". sometimes they share the same playground, but with a fence that divides the two. some kids will show you who their siblings are.)
"pourquoi t'a peur de maîtresse?" (why are you scared of her?)
silence... well, her facial expression said everything.

"c'est pas grave clara, on va faire anglais tout de suite, tout va mieux, d'accord?" (it's alright, we're gonna have english later and everything's gonna be fine, ok?)
i patted her on head, she continued on sobbing a bit more before running and screaming again during the break.
later, she came in to have english with a big big smile jumping up and down.

Thursday, 27 January 2011

biRRRo, borg, bark, beh, etc


what is hidden underneath "borg" is a "HHHHose".
it looks so not like a horse, i don't want to present it.
they call my hand drawn oiseau biRRRo, yeah, whatever.
better than calling the duck, a "bark" i guess?
how about their green friend fog/hog, and the fish a "sheeps"?
yes, a "sheeps" for sure, since there are so many of them in sheepland it must come in a plural form with an s.

Thursday, 2 December 2010

love letters etc.

so i decided to be more sociable and sat in a geometry class before lunch today.
they were doing right angles and parallelograms stuff.
after they finished drawing, they lined up to show the class teacher their worksheets and she corrected them.
i, after have had helped out the kid who sat next to me, had nothing to do, so bored, i started reading a dictionary which sat right on the desk (logic!).

i thought it was weird that a girl kept smiling at me whenever i looked her direction.
it's not my first time to be with them in the same classroom.
and fyi, french people don't normally smile at strangers.
now that i'm no longer a stranger to them, they smile at me as often as we have eye contacts.
then i was wondering if i had something on my face.

couple of minutes later, she came to my desk and handed me a picture she drew!
on the top, it says "i love you."
"tu sais que veut dire 'i love you'?", i asked.
"oui, c'est a dire, je t'aime."
"awww, moi aussi. merci, c'est tres joli!"


and then, this "kate" girl ran to gimme a "present" after lunch.
(whenever i asked what their names were, bizarrely enough, they all introduced themselves to me by their "english names".
with my 6-y-o's, i didn't give them english names, though the other teachers think it helps them to understand the different sounds of the same letter.
i tend to think that french names are rather cool, they should just stick to their french names.)


and in this pocket, there's a note:


it reads: j'aime l'anglais avec toi. je trouve que c'est comme un reve de pouvoir apprendre l'anglais.
(i love doing english with you, i find it a dream to be able to learn english.)

this makes me smile from ear to ear.
when they're not screaming or talking non-stop during classes, they're just like little angels.

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

spiral


taken while climbing up to reach the top of arc de triomphe.
oh how i love these narrow and cold staircases.

Monday, 1 November 2010

the readers


on an autumn afternoon @ jardin du luxembourg
it was the most romantic scene i've seen, ever.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

random shots


taken while i was waiting for my bus.
the black dot isn't just the dirty spot on my lens (which you would've seen in many other pictures).
it's a fighter jet.
they flew by too quickly to be captured.
and you already know how sh*tty my photos are anyway.
just to clarify this time though.

here's another picture of another plane... you can see a dirty spot clearly in this picture.

another picture.

Friday, 8 October 2010

pinwheel


made of fallen leaves & a twig.
perfect craftsmanship, hand made by one of my kids.
(in fact, i might just need to teach EVERYONE, at both schools, so 300+ in total.)

Thursday, 7 October 2010

postcard


time for some serious studying guys.
here's a card to help you memorise the alphabets.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

postcard

i was shocked @ the relay shop @ CDG, by the choices of postcards.
they were of pure class.
this one, i got from a local librairie papeterie.
quintessential frenchness, n'est-ce pas?

Thursday, 30 September 2010

le chat noir


this is the first time i've seen a cat so far.
s/he just was walking along the street in the middle of the day.
like s/he has the whole street to herself/himself.
super cool.

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

patisserie


does it get better than that?
i think not.

Sunday, 26 September 2010

library for the young


i wanna gooooo & sit by the window.

Saturday, 25 September 2010

bonjour!


i made it.
it's not like i hate flying but i do a bit.
anyways, riding on the TGV was kinda fun.
and one thing for sure: french people really DO NOT WANT or BOTHER to speak english.
"excuse me do you speak english?" an old lady asked.
"no." the lady at the bookshop shook her head.
well, even though i speak so slow like a retardo, i'm giving it a go.
i guess it doesn't really matter how grammatically correct you are.
it's the effort of trying to speak their language that counts.
fingers crossed that i'll survive all this.

if you don't hear from me again.
that's probably because i'm queuing at the banque trying to pay for my rent and internet.
or i'm just trying to drag all the necessities (like kettles, mugs, dishwashing liquid, you name it) from the supermarket in one gigantic bag back home on foot.
it's only a 20-min walk, but when you're carrying stuff like milk, water, fruits and other stuff, it's a completely different story.

behave yourselves and don't blow anything up.
x