I want to be a lectrice forever.

Tours of the French Alps

From September 4th to 11th, 2010, wander the Medieval town of Annecy, nicknamed the Venice of the French Alps, and take a boat ride on its crystal blue lake. Do you like pampering yourself on your vacations, then why not spend an afternoon at the Aix les Bains thermal baths inside your lakeside hotel? Are you the adventurous type? Then take a horseback ride in the Alps or fly through the trees at the High Ropes Adventure. Are you a foodie? Taste local chocolates, cheeses, wines and walnut oils. But don't just taste it - cook it too at a cooking class taught by one of Grand Bornand's best chefs and restaurateurs. Are you a history buff? Then satisfy your curiosity at Lyon's Old Town or Vienne's Roman Temple and Forum. Or just enjoy watching the hang gliders and sunset at a catered outdoor dinner on the top of a mountain overlooking Annecy's lake.

www.french-alps-tours.com

I want to be a lectrice forever.

September 29th, 2008 · View Comments

I love my job!

I work with three classes in the labs: Vocabulary, Pronunciation and Business English. In all of them, I can spy on the students with my headset and make sure they are actually doing the lessons and using English. (I have ALL the power!!!) For vocab class, I’m redoing the weekly HTML lessons with a new style sheet, graphics and layout as well as adding mp3s for all of the main words. The pronunciation class is all IPA goodness. And the business English class is also a translation course so it gives me a chance to learn business French. Basically, I’m in geeky English-French technology-based language-teaching-and-learning heaven.

Even the commute isn’t bad because I get to drive next to this pretty lake 4 days a week.

Life is good.

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karina

@katie - you can, i did. just make sure you've got on your CV "bac +4" because you DID 4 years of a BA in the US. It's not lying, its describing what you did the most accurately.

Is a BA the equivalent of an M1? probably not, but Bac +4 worked for me :-)

Susan in Lille

Yeah!! I am so glad to hear that you love your job, that is great news!! I hope you feel that way for a very long time.

Katie

I wish that I had a masters so I could do this job. I'm sure that teaching university students is soo much better than teaching primary kids like what I'm doing. Glad that you're having a good time with it!

karina

yea!!! i loooooved being a lectrice, such a cushy job and usually nice profs and atmosphere :-) i realllllly wish i could have renewed there, but i managed to snag 3 vacataire hours at the CHU - the same classes i've taught for 2 years which is awesome.
enjoy your time! if you want to keep up with it then do a PhD :-) then you can be a real prof there :-)

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