Rearrangement

Some rearrangement of the afternoon classes, resulting in being in a minigroup with just another student and a teacher. Very useful, I think.

Curiously, the first story I had to tell involved a cat which recalled me of a story about a cat which I had to retell in its entirety many years back in school at a similar course when other students were absent and the teacher had all his time only for me.

Stories of celebrities

While discussing what celebrities we have met, the teacher told that last year some students (but not she) saw in a bread shop near the school Brad Pitt who appears to own a house in Provence.

The story of a motion picture being filmed at the house next to my office exceeded my linguistic abilities, but in 2006 it happened that one morning a Slovenian coworker rushed in and very excitedly told something to my Slovenian roommate, in Slovenian. Exotic temperament, thought I. Later I heard that the reason of a colleague's exitement had been that, while walking towards the office, she had seen no one else than a life-sized Demi Moore.

Just one thing left behind

I have realised that there is only one useful thing I did not took along: the charger for my camera batteries. The optimistic estimation is that the two charged batteries left have enough juice for about 200-300 photos and if I economise later that week, I may extend this to last at least till Sunday afternoon. After this it would be more or less OK to take photos with the phone, unless I can find a new charger from a camera shop here, but on Sunday there will be a nature trip and Saturday I am planning to make a hike. (Where do they sell topographic maps, I wonder?)