30 juin 2011 - Saying Goodbye to Sarlat

JEUDI

Taught my last morning class at École Jules Ferry and said a quick goodbye to all the other teachers.

The students and teachers at École de la Canéda presented me with an amazing surprise.. some souvenirs from Sarlat.

My 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd graders.

Began my last walk around Sarlat with the girls I spent my Wednesday afternoons with.

I left my window open while out and came back to find a bird flying around in my apartment.

27 juin 2011 - Beginning of the last week in Sarlat

LUNDI

 École Jules Ferry.

Blue skies and heat bearing down on the school courtyard, people take shelter in the shadows.

Sarlat.

16 juin 2011

JEUDI

It is a drippy day in Sarlat, as evident by the umbrella hanging in the corridor at École Jules Ferry.

Clouds still in the sky as the moon hangs over the roundabout.

28 avril 2011

JEUDI

Roses blooming against the wall at École Jules Ferry.

View from library window at École de la Canéda: wooden ladder, TV antenna.

1 avril 2011 - field trip, poisson d'avril, gas leak

VENDREDI

École Jules Ferry invited me to help chaperon a field trip to Parcours du Cœur, a national event sponsored by the Fédération Française de Cardiologie (French Heart Association). On Sunday, there will be activities open to all the public, but today they welcomed schools from around Sarlat to partake in various activities promoting good health and how to handle an emergency.

Chocolate fish on display at one of Sarlat's chocolateries for poisson d'avril, which is the French version of April Fool's Day and often involves taping a paper fish to someone's back.

There was commotion this afternoon, as a gas leak closed access in and out of the city via my roundabout. Gendarme stood in front of the caution tape giving cars directions to the detour. 
Article in the regional newspaper, Sud Ouest, about the incident.

The Conseil Général de la Dordogne put up detour signs. Several hour later they take down the signs opening up the flow through the roundabout, as the gas leak has been situated.

24 mars 2011 - Salon du Livre Jeunesse

JEUDI

Leaving École Jules Ferry with Occitan first-second grade split class. We walk down through the town to the library as part of the Salon du Livre Jeunesse (Children's Book Fair).

At the library the class met children's author Régis Delpeuch. The students had questions for him. He read them part of one of his books. Then the class presented Monsieur Delpeuch with a book they wrote and illustrated as a class based off one of his stories. The book a written in Occitan. 

École de la Canéda

I joined the CE1 (second grade) class on their field trip to the Salon du Livre Jeunesse.

The book fair has a detective theme; Sarladais students produced artwork to follow the theme. 

Storytelling with fabric creations.

The story reading was cut short as we had to catch the bus back to school.

On my walk home I passed a semi stopped in the middle lane along D704 (avenue du Lot); it had two shredded tires, which was probably contributed to the heat of the asphalt.