… and two to go! Time does feel like it’s creeping by although I suppose this week hasn’t gone too slowly. Next week is likely to be a bit worse as I have now truly finished all my work. I wrote two short commentarys on plays for one of my literature modules and got them emailed off, and although I emailed my sociolinguistique lecturer at the beginning of the week she hasn’t got back to me yet. So, for the time being I have officially finished all my work! It remains to be seen if I get sent anything else in the next week. In my emails I’ve made it clear that although I’m leaving on the 22nd, my deadline for finishing work is the 19th as that’s when mum and Alan arrive, so any work arriving later than Friday next week will get refused I’m afraid! I don’t expect to be sent anything much anyway; perhaps one piece of work for sociolinguistique but the rest have either been signed off already or the lecturers don’t appear to use email, so I’m unlikely to get anything from them as we can’t get in touch.
I am hoping the weather will clear up a bit for this weekend; Sunday has been forecast sunny, no clouds one minute and then raining the next, but if we get a nice day I shall go laze in the park with a book. All this week it’s been breezy, sunny and cloudy at the same time and just now we had a little downpour, so it obviously can’t decide what it’s doing.
I didn’t go to the AG yesterday in the end, and it seems not many other people did either as the report posted on the Comité de Mobilisation website said that attendance was low due to today being a jour férié (i.e everyone’s gone home for a long weekend). Still, there were enough people to continue to vote through the blockades; by 231 votes to 145 apparently. No doubt Monday’s attendance will be up again; it’s always busier as people want to know what’s going to happen for the week. I also noted the results of Monday’s AG at the science faculty; they actually voted out the blockades this week. However this doesn’t affect me since my only science class should have been today, which as it’s jour férié wouldn’t have taken place in any case. It remains to be seen what happens next week; if they still have no blockades then technically I might have a class next Friday, but I’m rather disinclined to go since it’s only one class – what’s the point? As for assessments, it seems everyone is voting not to schedule exams at all and directing the blame at the government if it messes up people’s education. I also noticed a report of one or two lecturers on hunger strike (in Caen and Reims) until the government repeals the acts it pushed through during the easter break.
Haven’t got a whole lot of plans for next week; basically I wake up and see what I feel like doing for the day. Today I sent off my shortlist for final year Forensics projects to Keele (I recieved the list earlier this week), but I won’t hear which one of my list I’ve been allocated until September. I still haven’t had a list for French. I’ll probably go into town tomorrow just for a change of scenery; I haven’t left campus since I got back last week. Next week I’m going to go to Paris for at least one day; there’s a few bits I want to see and do, markets, food shops, out of the ordinary sightseeing and the Catacombs. If I don’t get it all done in one day I’ll just go back for a second round! I really have little else to do.
