Making Banana Pancakes

Should really stop the blatent references to excellent singers.
Indeed I did stay inside and pretend that it was the weekend as it was raining (snowing, actually, still) outside. My weekend of travelling around caught up with me and I stayed in bed with a headache preparing some lessons.

Went to my class at the college at 4, it was on directions and one of my pupils (Flavian), usually pretty hard to please, told me that he'd had loads of fun in my lesson... I was very pleased! It was so interesting to see how much better the boys did with the directions that the girls, maybe casual sexism is based in truth!

In the evening, I intended to sleep and feel sorry for myself, but our house has late become some sort of refuge for teachers who wish to use our microwave, not that I'm complaining about having company. Delphine turned up as usual with her soup and then a French teacher whose name I still don't know came along. It was good to chat a bit & Delphine really is love.

I have to admit that I bailed on something for the first time today. Ludovic had invited me to go and watch an Italian film with the interns in the evening, but as it wasn't going to have subtitles I wouldn't have understood anything. Besides, think I needed to catch up on sleep. I will make up for it by throwing myself into conversations for the last two weeks! Maybe I'll hang around the staffroom preying on people!

The banana and cinnamon pancakes were a treat because I needed to use up a few things in the cupboard and I even treated myself to the German version of Nutella. I'm sure I'll start that diet one day.