Toulouse! (somewhere there atleast!)

TOULOUSE!

finally we have been allotted our academies, and i have been placed in Toulouse! This is a city in the south of France, which is best known for being the hub of the aerospace industry in Europe, including the HQ of Airbus. Toulouse also has a large student population. l'Academie de Toulouse is a big one, and I could be in any little town/village in the general vicinity of Toulouse.

In the preferences which I filled out in our application form, I put Toulouse as my 1st preference (2nd Grenoble and 3rd Orleans Tours) and to be frank, im a little bummed about Toulouse, since its far from Paris, and it hasnt got the Alpes or the Loire valley (my 2nd and 3rd preferences!) and after sending in the form i did some research and realised that i wanted either my 2nd or 3rd preference more than Toulouse...but i hope Toulouse will still be a rocking place for me to spend 7 months!

So what if i get to go to Paris only a couple of time? i will be closer to the mediterranean sea (which was a big magnet for me!) so i can go to Nice/St. Tropez/Cannes. i will also be close to Spain and Italy. So this puts Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, and Venice on the cards for sure! London is a sure thing...wherever i may be. i know i seem fussy, cause i should be thanking my lucky stars i even got selected to go to France as an English Assistant, be happy that my first preference has been allotted to me (tant pis que jái choissi sans bien reflechir!) and celebrate the fact that IM GOING TO FRANCE! EUROTRIP!!

Anyway, I will be teaching lyceens - equivalent of classes 9 - 12 in India. good luck to me! (im a little nervous!) and i will be there for 7 months, so its back to India on 31st April 2011.

much excitement! wake me up when september ends!! (cause we leave in the last week of sept). wait wait wait wait...of course there are all the logistical issues to sort out now - waiting to find out my exact assignment, then figuring out where i will be staying, what to take and what to buy there, how to carry money, getting my hands on enough money to carry, etc etc etc!