So, today I got the news that surely every budding English assistant dreams of; apparently, despite my best efforts to send them a letter (in French and everything!) at the beginning of the summer, the school I am supposed to be working at have no idea who I am. This is considered enough of a crisis at the school that they had a meeting on Friday dedicated entirely to discussing my anonymity and what to do about it. While this is, I have to say, somewhat flattering, it's also pretty worrying with only a month to go (and probably not the ideal first impression to make on my future employers...)
This all probably has something to do with the very confusing nature of French addresses - the name of the road was spelt 3 different ways on the letter I received from the Académie (Rue de Faucout), the school website (Paucout), and Google maps (Paucourt). Thanks guys. Then when I put in the school postcode it was on a different street entirely... Clearly, though, my best attempts to decipher this conflicting information were insufficient, and my letter never arrived.
Not to worry though, luckily I'm in touch with Sara, the Spanish assistant who has kindly let me know that all this is happening, and offered to try and help sort things out! In any case, I'll be calling them up first thing tomorrow to try to sort this mess out, so I'd better get over my phobia of phone calls in French pretty sharpish (it's so much harder when you can't see them!)
Will let you know how it goes.
On a side note, despite my supposedly second year degree level of French, apparently I still can't tell the difference between Tuesday and Wednesday. And I can't make Wednesday, so the bank meeting is cancelled. Oops.
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