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Rebecca hates the school computers.
Jan. 31st, 2008 10:31 pmVarious countries recognize February 5 as International Pancake Day this year (it's held on the same day as Mardi Gras, don't ask me why). I found this out yesterday and got a craving for pancakes, and since I can make some pretty delicious pancakes in the United States, I figured I could do just as well in France, right? Wrong. I realized halfway through that I had used crepe mix, not pancake mix, and apparently dressing a crepe up in some extra flour does not make it a pancake. If I had been the only one to eat them, I wouldn't have cared, but I was cooking them for the other assistants, because we decided yesterday to have breakfast for dinner (Mariana made French toast, which was as good as my pancakes were bad). The results were not pretty, but Heather and Marlene ate them anyway, which I appreciated.
I'm behind on e-mails to several people, and it looks like it may be a while before I can catch up. The school computers have all had very sporadic e-mail access lately. We think 1) it's a problem with the computers themselves, or 2) the school's internet provider (the Académie of Amiens) doesn't want us accessing our e-mail. If it's the latter, then I'm going to have to find some way to get in touch with the Académie and ask them what moron said, "Hey, the school computers are used by foreign assistants who are miles away from their family and friends, so why don't we block their e-mail access?" Right now it breaks down like this...
There are six computers in the school's computer room.
One can access both Google Mail and Hotmail.
Two can access Google Mail but not Hotmail.
Two cannot access Google Mail or Hotmail.
One is only for decoration and has not worked the entire time I've been here.
And I can't forward my Hotmail e-mails into Google Mail account because that would make things too easy. But fortunately I can still access this journal from all of them and YouTube from three of them, so all is not lost, but I sure am homesick for the LSU computer lab right now. Hundreds of computers with Photoshop and Windows Movie Maker, so I could scan photos and make icons and YouTube videos to my heart's content.
I'm behind on e-mails to several people, and it looks like it may be a while before I can catch up. The school computers have all had very sporadic e-mail access lately. We think 1) it's a problem with the computers themselves, or 2) the school's internet provider (the Académie of Amiens) doesn't want us accessing our e-mail. If it's the latter, then I'm going to have to find some way to get in touch with the Académie and ask them what moron said, "Hey, the school computers are used by foreign assistants who are miles away from their family and friends, so why don't we block their e-mail access?" Right now it breaks down like this...
There are six computers in the school's computer room.
One can access both Google Mail and Hotmail.
Two can access Google Mail but not Hotmail.
Two cannot access Google Mail or Hotmail.
One is only for decoration and has not worked the entire time I've been here.
And I can't forward my Hotmail e-mails into Google Mail account because that would make things too easy. But fortunately I can still access this journal from all of them and YouTube from three of them, so all is not lost, but I sure am homesick for the LSU computer lab right now. Hundreds of computers with Photoshop and Windows Movie Maker, so I could scan photos and make icons and YouTube videos to my heart's content.
