I am happy to say my concert was a great success! I think people heard and enjoyed my music as about as much as they could enjoy any acoustic banjo show without amplification in a noisy bar - and of course, I can't forget the disco lights! In all seriousness, I had a lovely time. Many of my friends and aquaintances, especially fellow teaching assistants, showed up. They were all very kind. The owner of this bar, Bar Le Sainte Melaine, made it clear he would be very happy to have me back, and so I plan to schedule another concert soon. I am, in fact, in this bar at the moment, taking advantage of the wifi to upload some photos to facebook and a few videos of my concert to youtube. Ah - and my friend Gael was nice enough to let me borrow his Martin guitar for the concert! This definitely added something.
I started off the week interestingly enough; I asked two students to leave from a group of four I was teaching for consistently being disruptive! I told their teacher after class, and she was very unhappy to hear that and told the principal. I saw him later that afternoon and he asked me what had happened, and then I saw the students sitting outside his office the following morning! I see that they take discipline seriously here. Other than that teaching has been going pretty well. This week I've done lessons with a few classes on "fake" English words used in French. They use English a lot in French, but oftentimes in ways that wouldn't be understood by a native speaker. A few examples: "les people" means celebrities, "un smoking" is a tuxedo, and "un relax" is a lounge chair!
À bientôt!
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