C'est Nice
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Les enfants arrives
Hombres,
I know I'm getting into this a touch late in the game, but the past few days have been nuts. I want to tell you about them, I will tell you about them, but first, I'm going to do today.
The kids arrived today. I've been here since... Christ... Sunday night? Anyway, they finally got here... or at least, they're almost all here. I went to the airport twice today, once to man the arrival of the group flight--that's sixty kids right there--and then again to pick up two guys who were coming on their own.
The male-female ration is the classic study abroad ratio... in and around 1:5 (I think it's technically 17:63?). About 3/4 of the students brought way, way too much luggage. They're only going to be here for 27 days... they do NOT need two large duffel bags. The home office, who made the brochures (including the packing list) forgot to mention that they'd have to be taking their bags up many staircases. Fortunately, we were instructed by the boss-woman to refuse to help kids carry overly-large suitcases up stairs. So that's nice.
Anyway, the rest of the night includes dinner, followed by an RA meeting, followed by some dormy type activities--sports, board games, movies, etc. I'm looking forward to my RA meeting with kind of an apprehensive morbidity (if that makes any sense)... I'm starting to appreciate how much work goes into being a really high quality RA (not that I've never had any... but whatevs). It'll be interesting to see whether they're spoiled brats or well-groomed young adults... I'm divided between how nice it will be to have good kids to work with vs. how nice it will be to have high drama for any story writing derived from this trip.
Okay, so, I'm going to sign off now, seeing as how I'm hogging the only computer that works with any consistency in this place. Check out later installments to hear about the Lycee, the staff, orientation, Nice, and other fascinating topics.
A bientot!
Charlie.
I know I'm getting into this a touch late in the game, but the past few days have been nuts. I want to tell you about them, I will tell you about them, but first, I'm going to do today.
The kids arrived today. I've been here since... Christ... Sunday night? Anyway, they finally got here... or at least, they're almost all here. I went to the airport twice today, once to man the arrival of the group flight--that's sixty kids right there--and then again to pick up two guys who were coming on their own.
The male-female ration is the classic study abroad ratio... in and around 1:5 (I think it's technically 17:63?). About 3/4 of the students brought way, way too much luggage. They're only going to be here for 27 days... they do NOT need two large duffel bags. The home office, who made the brochures (including the packing list) forgot to mention that they'd have to be taking their bags up many staircases. Fortunately, we were instructed by the boss-woman to refuse to help kids carry overly-large suitcases up stairs. So that's nice.
Anyway, the rest of the night includes dinner, followed by an RA meeting, followed by some dormy type activities--sports, board games, movies, etc. I'm looking forward to my RA meeting with kind of an apprehensive morbidity (if that makes any sense)... I'm starting to appreciate how much work goes into being a really high quality RA (not that I've never had any... but whatevs). It'll be interesting to see whether they're spoiled brats or well-groomed young adults... I'm divided between how nice it will be to have good kids to work with vs. how nice it will be to have high drama for any story writing derived from this trip.
Okay, so, I'm going to sign off now, seeing as how I'm hogging the only computer that works with any consistency in this place. Check out later installments to hear about the Lycee, the staff, orientation, Nice, and other fascinating topics.
A bientot!
Charlie.
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