Week Three at School

This week at school has been a little quieter for me which has been nice. My extra excursions in the afternoon have finished so I generally spend the afternoons at the park, the swimming pool, or in a cafe in town. Of course my first priority (or possible third or fourth) is conscientiously completing my homework for the next day. I did another presentation for school on Friday - a brief history of Australia (1788, convicts and so forth) and a few of our better known monuments - Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House and Uluru. The talk went well, I think people are really interested in Australia as a far and distant land! There is an exhibition of Aboriginal Art here in Aix at the moment, and all year there is an exhibition at the Cathedrale d’Images in Les Baux de Provence all about Australia. In my class I have some people from the US, Sweden, Germany, Korea, Finland and Holland - not to mention the French teacher - very cosmopolitan! We all have to do presentations for school, so I am learning a bit more about the world while I’m here.

The Mistral has come in this week and cooled things down (and dusted them up!!). The Mistral is a really strong wind they have here in Provence - in winter it can be absolutely freezing and in summer can be quite hot, but this week has been a bit of a chill. We even had rain one day, although happily I made it to the bus stop without getting wet. Must get an umbrella... hmm...