Last week I found out yet another reason why I am totally superfluous in my job.  I was discussing with one of the English teachers what she's doing with her students when they're not with me, and it turns out she has to do something completely unrelated to their lessons, because when I take half of the class, as I usually do, it messes up their schedule so they can't progress with their normal lessons because the half with me would be behind.  So she has to come up with her own dumb filler activities, probably quite similar to the ones they're doing with me.  So my presence is actually more of a burden than a help.  I really hope the French government never finds out that they are actually paying us to be the opposite of helpful and constructive in language classes, I feel like I'm cheating the system...

On a side note, I've already listened to "All I Want for Christmas is You" four times today and I'm still not sick of it... and two more classes in the afternoon equals another four listens... which just proves that this is the best Christmas song ever and you can never get sick of it.