Computers - They're stupid anyway, but FRENCH computers....
Gah! I wish I wasn't so damned computer illiterate. But then that's the whole point of me going out with someone who is computer literate - it means I don't have to be. But of course, he's over there, and I'm over here and... what's a girl to do?Leave it until she sees said literate person, that's what.
I wanted to add some links to this site, but I haven't the foggiest clue how to go about it. (All my CS friends are prob now going "is that it? What a loser" but you forget easily, I'm illiterate on computers!) And to make matters worse, whenever I connect to blogger over here, it gives me all instructions in French. As if it's not hard enough that on a french keyboard, most of the letters are in the wrong place. Now my French is good (well, better than it was) and I'm thinking I can understand what it's yakking at me about but to be honest - I haven't a clue. I can see the words but the meaning escapes me. It says do this that and the other, and then shows me a page full of script that could well be in Urdu for all I understand of it. It does tell me I have to do some typing on this script somewhere. Less usefully, it doesn't tell me where exactly, and it doesn't tell me where I can find this magical page of script. I realise here of course I might be unjustly blaming the french for my own stupidity, but then it's worked for the past 6 months, why should I stop now? Any advice on how to work a computer will be gratefully recieved...
Exciting things happening today at my school! As I arrived bright and early at 8am this morn, I noticed a load of lads standing outside and not letting the kids with bikes through the gates, but thought nothing of it. Went and had a play on the computer, look out the window and about a third of the whole school are standing outside, blockading the school gates (now, French people blockading and going on strike?? God Lord, it's virtually unheard of!) It's all to do with some law the ever-ridiculous government is trying to push - something about giving kids who leave school a job to keep unemployment down, however in this job they end up with no rights and can't join unions etc etc and after 2 years the employer can fire them without warning, because the kid was only there as part of the scheme or something. I don't really get it and I might have got it wrong, but that's how it sounds to me. So kids all over Paris (and I assume France generally) have been doing demos and stuff. And our kids chose today, outside the school. They made a poor choice - last week we had glorious sunshine and nice hot weather, and today? Pissing it down and there's some heavy freezing cold fog going on, haha. But they were getting pretty violent before lunch, and when I went home I hoped that by the afternoon there might have been enough damage to close the school or something, maybe a couple of small bonfires, some windows smashed, something like that. But alas it wasn't to be. After lunch, they must have decided it was boring and too cold, and that lessons were infinately better than freezing to death. Knowing my kids though, it's more likely they just ran out of fags.
And of course, I condone violence as part of the protesting, it's supposed to be peaceful and just standing up to the government (not that they listen of course) - but this is my school we're talking about, non-violence is not an option. Just ask some of the litter-bins they kicked over outside the school. The mean buggers!
I gotta love my kids though, they love to think they're the dogs bollocks. They seem to forget that teachers were young once and know pretty much everything that they're thinking, having experienced it themselves. They also seem to forget that I'm only 4 years older than some of them! They really do make me feel ancient sometimes!
posted by Kim @ 3/21/2006 01:22:00 pm
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