Hey, I’ m watching Sister Act 2, love the film but one of those films where in a matter of a semester everything goes well. Great but as an educator I would love to know if I have ever really changed the lives of any of my students. That’ s just the thing, we never know. Well, that is not really true. I was on the net a year or so ago and I got an email from Julia, a former pupil of mine. She was in the 3rd year in the seventies with me and I got this email that said, Hi Simon, I thought it was you. She had done French at University because I had given her the urge to do it. But that is the only feedback that I have ever had. Teaching in films is just so great but in real life it is nice to know from time to time if you have really had an effect on your students.
Been watching ‘Chicago’. There’s this song: Mr Cellophane. Talks about the fact that the bloke is never seen as anyone by anybody. Bizarre, I was in a couple of shops just recently and I felt just the same when the shop assistant asked THE WOMAN next to me, what she wanted!!!!
It’s already Wednesday and I am still in France! Does this mean that I don’t have the courage to leave or does it mean that I love the place so much? In fact I don’t think it is either, rather a mixture of the two. This is a lovely area of France: Thonon les bains with the lake and the countryside. I managed to get to the naturist beach, late, but I got there. The lake was so inviting so I went for a swim. It was easier to get in that a couple of days ago not too far from. I think I might stay a bit longer and make the most of the sun this afternoon.
Last evening a second and then a third camper pulled into this car park near the Forêt de Ripaille. It is probably the only one that doesn’t have height bars at the entrance!! On waking this morning, at 8h01 (at least you get full days when you use a camper) one of the campers had a dog outside and a bike. Not French, but from Luxembourg and a coupe of men as occupants: One around 30 out in his briefs and then his ‘friend’ around 45 perhaps. Strange to see myself like that! Even dresses like me in red shorts and a yellow tee shirt. I suppose, no I don’t suppose, it is when I see couples like that, that I realise how really lonely I am.
Before coming away there was a meeting at ECE and I went to lunch with some colleagues. I talked about trying to find a bloke and one of them (they were both women, of course) talked to me about her break up with her ex and how she realised that she had to do things for herself. Until you feel good with yourself you can’t really move on. I need to feel good with myself. I need to love myself until then noone will love me, I suppose. But how can you love someone you don’t really like? Perhaps you grow to like them? I remember when I was a teenager watching the Play for today on TV, in which there was a woman who had to like herself. I don’t remember much of the play but I do remember a scene where she had to give herself confidence. She walked around the room telling herself: ‘I am beautiful today, oh yes I am, I am beautiful today.’ I suppose I remember this as my sister and I would act out the scene from time to time having found it rather amusing. I never realised how much I would come to resembled that woman.
Well, in fact, the younger one has taken his bike to go to Yvoire and his friend is meeting him there in the camper. Would have liked to have taken a photo of them taking photos of the biker, but felt that it would be impinging on their privacy. How stupid of me!
Yeah, I watched Davey Wavey on youtube a couple of days ago in a McDo, and he was talking about getting a boyfriend. Perhaps he is the one who has put all these ideas into my head!.
First to arrive, last to go!! I need a post office and a bank and then I think I can sun myself and make my way to the Furkapass and the Rhône Glacier.
Et qu’est –ce qui se passé? Je passé du temps à faire le ménage!! Il y a des choses à faire. C’est vrai que je dois faire un peu plus!
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