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It is at times like this that I wish my camera was digital

Or is it were digital?

I started my 10:00 class with a whopping four students and was explaining the rules of the game we were going to play, when I was interrupted by an invasion. Hundreds of students from neighboring high schools descended on Valéry Larbaud to encourage them to join in their "strike for peace".

My students watched out the window and we talked about how, de toutes les façons, ça sert à rien to go on a strike for peace in France, which is not even at war. George Bush is not going to suddenly change positions after being passed a notice that high school students in Vichy are on strike. George Bush, I am sure, does not even know that Vichy is a city. I certainly hope he has heard of Vichy France, but I would not bet anything on it.

Anyway, while the foreign bodies were pouring into the lycée, the Intruder alarm started going off. This was the same alarm that was going off last time we lost the Internet, so I have to admit that that was one of my first concerns. My very first, however, was What the heck do I do? There was an alarm going off, so I assumed that meant I had to let the students leave. Did I have to control them and take them outside?

It turned out the Intruder alarm just makes everything explode into chaos, so some teachers let students go and others kept them prisoner. I tried to keep near to mine, but they split up and by the time the alarm stopped and the mob left, I was down to two. The others, I assume, joined the foule because this was a legal, pre-announced grève and they had the right to join it (and therefore get out of class), even if they realized that it was pointless.

TWO!

If it had been one, it would have been illegal for me to continue class (you can't have one student and one teacher alone in a classroom), but instead I had to try to play superfun games with only two participants.

I hope my afternoon classes go on strike...

srah - Thursday, 27 March 2003 - 5:28 AM
Tags: assistantship, france, politics, strike, united states, war

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