22 octobre 2010 - off to Paris

VENDREDI

This marks the first day of a nearly two week break from school pour la Toussaint (All Saints' Day). I head off to Paris to meet up with friends before spending the rest of the vacation working at a holiday camp.

I caught a bus from the Sarlat train station to Souillac.

 Limestone cliffs and cows.

 Souillac train station from where I hopped on a train north to Paris.

The train was packed with holiday travelers.

Gare d'Austerlitz is packed due to all the canceled trains caused by the strikes.

Sun beginning to set in the Paris sky. Anti-retirement reform posters.

I walked from Gare d'Austerlitz to les Invalides to meet Art and Coleen at the hotel.

Art and Coleen treated me to a nice dinner at Pizza Tina. Eiffel Tower sparkling.

Eiffel Tower trinkets being sold around the grounds of the tower.

Ticket line to go up the tower. View from the third level of the Eiffel Tower.

École Miliatire. Le Seine.

21 octobre 2010 - protesting

JEUDI

The Sarlat high schoolers took over the roundabout again chanting and expressing their discontent with the rise of the retirement age.

The gasoline refinery strikes has led to gasoline shortages around parts of France. In Sarlat, there has been only a 50 euro cap put on gasoline.

20 octobre 2010

MERCREDI

View from my apartment: surveyors at the roundabout

 The Wednesday market. The tourist.

At French Coffee Shop using the wifi.

 At Au Bureau, a bar in Sarlat, with Joe, Imogen, and her wonderful family.

19 octobre 2010 - Complexe sportif de la Canéda

MARDI

Following an afternoon of teaching at École de la Canéda, I walked to the sports complex in Sarlat where I began my first day of volunteering as a gymnastics coach.

18 octobre 2010

LUNDI

The coats and backpacks stationed outside one of the 1st grade classes I teach at Ecole Jules Ferry.

17 octobre 2010 - Brocante

DIMANCHE

Window display of the office de tourisme.

 La brocante (the flea market) spread between two plazas in Sarlat.

16 octobre 2010 - Bergerac to Sarlat

SAMEDI

Walking to the train station.

The Bergerac train station, where no trains were running. The bus back to Sarlat was over an hour later from the scheduled departure time.

 The SNCF workers trying to workout the bus schedule. Finally getting on the "minging" bus.

In Bergerac they grow grapes on their roundabouts.

The scenic journey back to Sarlat.

Back in Sarlat and wifi-ing at McDo.