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Eewww not a nice chore first thing in the morning. Glad you are feeling better.
Darkangel wrote: "Eewww not a nice chore first thing in the morning. Glad you are feeling better."No, degulasse! Horrible/disgusting in English. Lol I just printed a letter off for Alain, so I assume the water that dripped into my printer as I watered the plant didn't damage it!
All the back to school stuff is in the shops we have to buy the books this year too, mind for a private school I pay just 42 Euros for the year! Hardly the fees of Eton! Big school will cost around 1000 a year with lunches included! I will get a grant for the text books too!
42 Euros is not too bad for a year. I have already bought Renee her pens, pencils etc, the rest her mother can buy!
Darkangel wrote: "42 Euros is not too bad for a year. I have already bought Renee her pens, pencils etc, the rest her mother can buy!"Face it 1000 isn't bad for private school for next year either, there would be no way on this earth I would be able to put her into private education in England! That's one of the reasons we moved to France, to give Sophie a better education. Pens and pencils are cheap the excercise books are cheap too it's the text books that cost the money!
I totally agree. It is more like £2000-£8000 per term not year here.
Sarah R wrote: "Darkangel wrote: "42 Euros is not too bad for a year. I have already bought Renee her pens, pencils etc, the rest her mother can buy!"Face it 1000 isn't bad for private school for next year eith..."
you so right! I have two kids each of them have 5 books, roughly and each book is 30 euros. Mines are not allowed a grant because they are only in preschool. The you have to pay 100 euros eah for materials, and i pick them up at lunch time beause that would another 130 euros a months each, its a state school as well!
Darkangel wrote: "I totally agree. It is more like £2000-£8000 per term not year here."That would mean Sophie would have been in mainstream school and if she was lucky she might be able to spell and read and add up with a calculator!
I have just put lunch on to cook, rabbit in cider tomorrow its beef bourguignon - Alain will think its his birthday 2 cordon bleu meals in one week!
Hi Sarah - just saw your tweet. I was at lunch. Hate work it takes up so much time and I am trying to finish my second book.
My daughter is going to Lycee in September. The fees are 550 a term - not bad for intern.
Kerry wrote: "Hi Sarah - just saw your tweet. I was at lunch. Hate work it takes up so much time and I am trying to finish my second book."I'd have thought you would have been on hols, being a teacher? what's the second book about Kerry?
Kerry wrote: "My daughter is going to Lycee in September. The fees are 550 a term - not bad for intern."Looks like most of us Brits take advantage of the private education system here in France, was that a reason you moved here too?
I teach adults not children. I get the standard 5 weeks a year holiday and I have to take one of them at Christmas.
My second book is about a year in the life of four English women who live in France. It's fiction but based on people I know here.
Hi Sharon :)
My second book is about a year in the life of four English women who live in France. It's fiction but based on people I know here.
Hi Sharon :)
i was going to put my kids in private education here but the only teach english until they are in primary and I wanted them to learn both languages before they are six.
Kerry wrote: "I teach adults not children. I get the standard 5 weeks a year holiday and I have to take one of them at Christmas. My second book is about a year in the life of four English women who live in Fr..."
Sounds good need a couple of proof readers we're your people. That's pants only five weeks a year I'm glad I don't have to work, it's a struggle but we cope and the Euro is currently being nice to us in exchange rates!
My daughter has been in state education since she started and has no problem with it. She speaks English French and Spanish and will start to learn Italian next year.
Kerry wrote: "My daughter has been in state education since she started and has no problem with it. She speaks English French and Spanish and will start to learn Italian next year."So you didn't enrol her into a private school but you still have to pay? sophie had a problem with her teacher like the 5 others that changed schools at the same time. If you were one of her pets you were fine otherwise she yelled from morning to hometime wouldn't help them if they had a problem and the directrice backed the teacher not the parents. She left us no choice but to switch schools. Sophie is learning English, I know she should be able to speak and understand (she can she pretends she can't) but unfortunately she does have a French Accent when speaking English, albeit very slight! But she can pronounce the and her 'r' and her W.
Sarah R wrote: "Kerry wrote: "My daughter has been in state education since she started and has no problem with it. She speaks English French and Spanish and will start to learn Italian next year."So you didn't ..."
that's quite cool she speaks english with a french accent, was she born in France or uk.
My kids are the same, i seak to them in spanish at home but but they answer me in English, so came back to spain so they wouldn't have an option.
Eva wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "Kerry wrote: "My daughter has been in state education since she started and has no problem with it. She speaks English French and Spanish and will start to learn Italian next year."..."Hi Eva
Sophie was born in England she was 20 months old when we came to live in France, her first language was English and up until she was six she spoke to me in English for some reason at six she decided that she didn't want to do it any more! Bizarre I know I still speak to her in English and she answers me in French so I know she can translate perfectly!
Sarah R wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "Kerry wrote: "My daughter has been in state education since she started and has no problem with it. She speaks English French and Spanish and will start to learn Italian..."Is the school an english school?
Eva wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "Kerry wrote: "My daughter has been in state education since she started and has no problem with it. She speaks English French and Spanish and will start ..."No, a French Catholic school, who have no problem taking Sophie who is, like me, Protestant. In the times gone by there would have been no chance but times are hard and more people are sending their children to state schools and in order to stay in business the Private schools have opened their doors to anyone who wishes their children to be educated in a Catholic establishment.
I don't stop Sophie participating in the Catechist, or religious education, I believe she should learn about God and Jesus and let her make her own mind up she may convert,but that will be up to her.
I only have to pay from this year because she will be an intern. Those are the fees.
My daughter was born in the UK spoke English up to going to school here in France and learned French within a term. She has never had to sit a year twice and she is perfect in French and English.
My daughter was born in the UK spoke English up to going to school here in France and learned French within a term. She has never had to sit a year twice and she is perfect in French and English.
Might just take you up on that offer of a proof read. Not that I need a proof read yet as it isn't finished but I would be glad of an opinion on it so far.
oh - the fees are intern fees not school fees.
Kerry wrote: "I only have to pay from this year because she will be an intern. Those are the fees. My daughter was born in the UK spoke English up to going to school here in France and learned French within a t..."
No Soph hasn't had to re-take a year yet, but it was by the skin of her teeth with the Blonde in the Public school. She is naturally top in English despite her reticence to speak to me, loves IT French is so so, she's a bit lazy I'm afraid, maths so so before she had no interest in history and geography and science and she has pulled up from the bottom of the class in those subjects to the medium for the class.
As for the proof reading happy to oblige we can do a swap if you like, I have 32 chapters of House of Death completed.
Intern fees not heard of those but then again Sophie is just 10 last year of primary school this year/next we hope and she will be booked in to one of the best private schools in Pontivy in September. Her friend is going to Guemene back into the state school, I can't see the logic with that I moved her out of state school to give her a better chance, less students per teacher not to move her back into the state system to get picked on!
I have another friend who had children in France and they stopped speaking English too. In fact I think all her children stopped so maybe it is not so rare. I will ask her if she knows.
Although if Sophie is happy in her school and with speaking French then maybe it is not a biggy.
Although if Sophie is happy in her school and with speaking French then maybe it is not a biggy.
Kerry wrote: "I have another friend who had children in France and they stopped speaking English too. In fact I think all her children stopped so maybe it is not so rare. I will ask her if she knows.Although if..."
I'm not worried, I keep at her in English like just now she shouted down and asked what Chapitre was in English so I told her in French and then translated the sentence into English. Jo, my daughter is coming up with the same problem though Leon was born in France he spoke English first, now we get a mix if I ask him something he tells me to speak French bless him!
I don't mind, as long as she eventually speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian she will be better off than kids of her age in England who struggle with English!
Yep - I think you are right to be cool about it. They get enough pressure as it is. Intern is boarding - sorry I had forgotten the English word and had to look it up.
Have to work now but it has been lovely to chat for a while. I need to sell books so I can give up teaching and write more :)
Have to work now but it has been lovely to chat for a while. I need to sell books so I can give up teaching and write more :)
Kerry wrote: "Yep - I think you are right to be cool about it. They get enough pressure as it is. Intern is boarding - sorry I had forgotten the English word and had to look it up.Have to work now but it has be..."
Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to look up English words! Have a nice afternoon speak to you again soon.
Rabbit went down well, Alain and Sophie both cleaned their plates, in fact Sophie's was so clean I almost don't need to wash it!I started thirty two but I have to go shopping now talk to you tomorrow!
OK, I am off to the theatre tonight to see Wicked. TTFN
Darkangel wrote: "OK, I am off to the theatre tonight to see Wicked. TTFN"tell me all about it tomorrow, i havent seen and tried to read the book but failed miserably! it was so boring!
I know what you mean, I have tried to read that book so many times - I have it at home. Maybe after seeing the show it might make it easier to read!
Lol it doesn't bode well if the book is hard to read what will the show be like! How to spend loads of dosh take one 10 year old shopping for school stuff! New wheelie back pack 30 Euros, 4 cotton long sleeved t shirts 4 pairs leggings 36 Euros denim shorts not for school just an 'I want' a bargain should have been 12 euros I paid 7.20 4 plastic covered a 4 with 80 plastic pockets 10 Euros pens 1,20, pencils,glue,coloured pencils,felt tips,underliners fluorescant excercise books small and large 4 of each and so on and on and on!
MorningThe sun is shining I cleaned the pool of all the grass last night and I now have to trudge into Pontivy to the DIY place to ask about insulation buy a new lawnmower and a new lock for the Wendy house! Exciting stuff insulation, so exciting you can discuss it for days, weeks even!
How was your girly night out?
MorningIt was absolutely brilliant. We had a lovely Italian mean then went straight in to the show and it was (for a better word) "Wicked".
Darkangel wrote: "MorningIt was absolutely brilliant. We had a lovely Italian mean then went straight in to the show and it was (for a better word) "Wicked"."
sounds good, I have spent the morning getting nowhere fast, no lock to be had for the Wendy house in either DIY shops I am going to look on line. Mowers were to expensive and they had no stock of the insulation!
So not a very productive day so far then.
Darkangel wrote: "So not a very productive day so far then."No not in the shops, but I just ordered a flymo on line I can pay for it in four stages for 1.58 extra delivered to my door! That's what I call shopping!
Darkangel wrote: "I love that kind of shopping."Me too. I just spent 20 minutes printing off stuff for edf for the electricity only to find I didn't need to do it edf are so stupid it is unbelievable, we already have a resau electric inside the house all we need them to do besides listen is switch the bugger on!
Alain will go ape when I tell him!
Darkangel wrote: "LOL - how funny."He won't find it funny, and guess who'll get the blame got it in one, somehow it will be my fault. I'm going to ring the English helpline and try and sort it beforehand!
That may be a wise idea, but you know if he does have a go at you, young Sophie will probably step up to the mark again ;o)
Darkangel wrote: "That may be a wise idea, but you know if he does have a go at you, young Sophie will probably step up to the mark again ;o)"Done it, spoke to a very nice young man who understood what I wanted to know. Ye ha there is intelligent life at EDF I got lucky and found the one and only! All the elctricity needs to be in before we have it inspected and then switched on. So yes if Alain is adamant on getting electricity before the end of August he will have to pay some 240 euros, I'm going to stick my head out and tell him it isn't worth it! The electrician is doing the wiring when he comes back off his hols we've managed this long without electricity we'll manage a bit longer! He's got a generator he can use I can't see his problem!
And I didn't need him to speak English though bless him he wanted to! I find I can't understand them when they speak in English, it takes so long to translate it back to French it hardly seems worthwhile!
I just went on Amazon and apparently my book is available from amazon.com at 14.99 dollars!
At least that is one thing sorted. ;o)
Oh my god. Woohoo, now we have to start pushing it.
I can't find it. Wait I just found it but it has no picture!
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Feeling better today, colds not gone but I can at least breathe now and when I had to clean up dog pooh this morning I wished I couldn't! Mind it was only in one place this time the last time he had the trots he pooped all over the kitchen and the lounge he even pooped on my vacuum cleaner pipe! And he chose to do this on my birthday, nice one eclair!