Ok, France-time to get with the 21st century. Even me, the technologically challenged geriatric that I am, can handle email.
Seriously, there is no communication at my school here. None whatsoever. It would be annoying enough under normal conditions, but it’s especially obnoxious since the professors like to change things around all the time willy nilly. It’s like a circus…switcharoos left and right, and no one tells anyone anything.
I’m only half complaining, though. Today I was smart and decided to skip class, unintentionally saving myself the frustration of the latest shenanigans.
Rewind to last Monday. We were told that our cinema class for this week (yesterday) was canceled. Ahead of time, and the message was well communicated for a change! Great-I can sleep in.
Wrong. Unfortunately on that same day, my Monday afternoon professor decided to bump our 1pm class to 8:30 am for the following week (also yesterday). Why? No explanation. And by the way, she had no idea where we would actually have class. She said to check with the secretary, who is almost never there…just from 1pm-2pm. These people never work. [Side note-postal service is on strike here.] This is also the third time this semester that this particular teacher’s moved our class. At least it was on the same day this time…
Last night I attempted homework for my Tuesday afternoon writing class. It was a fuzzy photocopy. Half was typed and the other half was handwritten in the margins from where the copier at the paper or something. It was a fill in the blank exercise that was much more complicated that in sounds. I had 30 blanks, 28 words, and no duplicates allowed. Oi.
I decided that since it’s my most hated class I should just save myself the stress and skip the class. Smart move. Come to find out, the teacher never showed up. The kids waited around for a long time (the 15 minute policy doesn’t exist here), and she never showed. This is not surprising…it’s happened before, several times. This professor is a huge hippie. She probably sent out some negative energy or something and we were all supposed to pick up on it and know that class was canceled.
But seriously...would it hurt to send out an email? A telephone call? A carrier pigeon? Something...
I still love France...
I'm in the process of uploading and posting pics from the past few weeks. Here are links to the photos from Cannes and Grasse. Germany pictures coming soon!
I'm in the process of uploading and posting pics from the past few weeks. Here are links to the photos from Cannes and Grasse. Germany pictures coming soon!
Cannes Film Festival:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100366116930588.2740149.5738637&l=5412fa2f9e
Grasse Rose Festival:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100366272044738.2740185.5738637&l=cb9e919d3e
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