Autumn update

I've been having some trouble getting reliable internet access. For a while I was poaching a network in the neighborhood where I live, but was afraid to use it for email or Blogger because of the possible lack of security for passwords etc. Now I am at the University using my wireless card, which is convenient but involves lugging my laptop to school with me - my shoulder muscles complain a little.

The biggest piece of news is that I have been renewed for a second year of the assistantship. I am now working in two primary schools in Sete, a fishing town on the Mediterranean about 20 minutes from Montpellier by train. The kids are cute, at least for the moment - we'll see how long that lasts! So it's a change from the brooding and the hormones from the high school experience last year.

It is Toussaint vacation so I'm not working this week, although classes at the fac are still going strong. On Sunday, Ahamed and I went to Aix-en-Provence for a night. Aix is the location for the CAOM, the Centre d'Archives d'Outre Mer, which he uses for his Master's thesis research. I took advantage of the trip for a change of scenery from Montpellier, and a day of profitable work in the Aix university library (which is a lot nicer than the one here in Montpellier!).
Here is a photo of Ahamed from our brief stopover in Marseille: