Well, I'm currently rushing around like a headless chicken (comme une poule sans tete?!) trying to sort French translations of birth certificates, doctor's notes, booster injections, blindly running across the minefield that is insurance amongst lots of other bureaucratic malarky that has to be done before you spend 7 months teaching English at two sixth forms in the little island that is La Reunion, in the Indian Ocean.
The reality of 7 months away is starting to hit me a little bit now. But I'm going to steal the opening lines from the French film; 'La Haine'...'jusqu'ici, tout va bien...jusqu'ici, tout va bien' (so far, so good).
What might be of interest to you all is where I'm going:
That little 'A' is Saint Joseph, La Reunion. That other little blob in the mass of blue sea is Mauritius. Just to put it all in perspective...because let's face it, being a geography student doesn't mean anything, I didn't have a clue Reunion even existed 3 years ago...this is the zoomed out version...
I'll be travelling from A to B. Little old Thaxted in Essex, to the sea side town of Saint Joseph, La Reunion. Bring on the blue sea, bright sunshine and relaxed island life.
Hopefully I'll avoid the volcano eruptions, shark attacks and coming across anything that comes close to Reunion's 3 world records:
- The most rainfall in 12 hours - 45 inches (3.75 FEET!)
- The most rainfall in 24 hours - 71.8 inches (nearly 6 FEET!)
- The most rainfall in 48 hours - 97.1 inches (over 8 FEET!)
On that note...let's get back to the being 'une poule sans tete'.
Mange tout mange tout.
Bonjour.
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