Silke and Jerome's friends in Canada will be jealous to know that here in France, there are now two weeks of vacation from school. Although considering how long and demanding school days are, I think on balance they aren't getting off any easier. Silke had six exams last week. Including an exam in what we would call Physical Education! She had to demonstrate that she could correctly apply the techniques that she had learned in table tennis. Table tennis is not one of her strengths. The tables are numbered, and during the term, if you won, you moved up a table number. Lose, and you go down. The first week Silke soon found herself at table 1. Although, by the end of the section on table tennis she had worked her way back up a couple of tables. Fortunately, the table tennis exam was not evaluated on winning, but on whether you held your racket correctly, whether you served correctly, and whether you employed, successfully or not, some of the instructed strategies. By the way, marks here are not a private matter between yourself and your teacher and parents. Some teachers read out the marks obtained in each test or assignment. Others post them. So everyone knows.
So what do we have planned for these two weeks of school vacation? We may go to London for a couple of days. But mostly, catching up and preparing.
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