Friday and Saturday

My Friday passed uneventfully, except that another girl from St Doulchard (where I live) joined the rugby team, which is nice because that makes getting a ride home even easier.  I also got permission from one of my teachers to do TPE on my own. TPE is the one large group project that the students at my school do, and it counts for their exit exam, the BAC.  I was originally in a group, despite the fact that the project wouldn’t count towards any sort of grade or BAC for me. After two sessions with my group, I realized that I had no desire to take my classmates through the baby-steps of collaboration (oh Da Vinci, how I miss you sometimes). So I talked with the teacher about it, who is a teacher that I really like, and it would appear that I’m now free to work on whatever I’d like on my own. I suppose that my I can put my Twenty-first Century skills on hold until I’m in a less traditional educational system.

On my way to school on Saturday morning I pass by the city’s morning market, which is held in the area which historically stored the city grain. Now each Saturday morning it’s filled with booths of butchered meat, cheese, produce, trinkets, and used books. Since my bus arrives early I took a detour through the market and was able to find a used copy of another Tintin book for a mere 5 euros.

After morning classes and then lunch with my family I went back into town to meet up with friends. Well actually, I missed the bus (apparently nobody told the new driver that he’s expected to be 10 to 15 minutes late). So I walked to the library and checked out a book for school, passed the time until the next bus browsing through the library shelves. Then I went into town as planned, where I played pool with two friends at the bowling complex not far from our school. I didn’t do too badly, all things considered; in fact I quite nearly won my first game. Though since none of us are exactly experts, the competition wasn’t the stiffest, and we had more fun just hanging out together.

Then I came home, almost did my homework, and then realized that I have all of tomorrow to worry about it. All in all, a nice Saturday I would say.