David went to Lyon today to take an Alliance Française test. He’s hoping to get the DIPLOME D’APTITUDE A L’ENSEIGNEMENT DU FRANÇAIS LANGUE ETRANGERE (DAEFLE) so he can teach French in Canada. First, the candidate must pass a written exam to determine their command of French. We were thinking it would be a grammar test, but actually it’s just two essays that seem to have nothing to do with teaching French as a Foreign Language. (sample test) Then, there are 6 modules that you are supposed to do over the course of 2-3 years. However, David is doing the accelerated course so he can finish within one year. Lucky for him, they’re mostly linguistics modules, so I will be studying them as well so that I can learn the French vocabulary for all of the English linguistics terms still stored in my head.
We are moving out of our apartment tomorrow night, and then I go to Cairo on Friday to visit a friend. We move into our new apartment on June 10, but I don’t think our internet will be set up by then. We still don’t even know for sure if we are in a zone dégroupée, so there’s a possibility that we won’t have the “cable” TV channels.
I hope to completely finish my thesis by the middle of June. Then one of these days I’ll get back to working on my website…
