Monday, January 4, 2021.
The ceiling in Maëva's classroom partially collapsed this morning. Luckily, they were at recess. They've set up class in the common area until repairs are done. Apparently, the roof was damaged over break by rocks that were thrown onto it causing a leak to pool up in the ceiling over the classroom weakening it and causing electrical problems. When the repairman was working on it this morning, it caved in.
After a morning of translation class prep, when I left the house at 11:15am to pick up our grocery order and Tiger's meds, I discovered a light covering of slushy snow scattered around. By that time, however, the precipitation had turned to rain.
This afternoon, I turned back to my grading. As of 7pm this evening when I stopped for the day (after a nearly two-hour break to pick up the girls, get them a snack, help them with their homework and more thank you notes), I had graded only 19/62 literature papers, which means I'm a full day behind where I'd hoped to be. Unfortunately, when I imagined my grading schedule, I didn't factor in the fact that I still had class prep to do this week. Oops.
Word came from the university president early this afternoon that the schedule for returning on site has once again been pushed back. The first two weeks of the new semester beginning January 11th will be entirely remote. Freshman are now scheduled to go back under the hybrid system starting January 25th. Others will go back under the hybrid system two weeks later on February 8th (that's me). So I'm currently looking at at least four weeks of entirely online teaching.
The uproar over the snail's pace of the vaccination campaign is growing. As of noon today, only just over 500 people had been vaccinated in France.
As of Saturday, fifteen departments have had their curfews extended to 6pm (rather than 8pm elsewhere) to 6am. The Bouches du Rhône is not one of them, however. I guess that's a good sign and means we're not currently one of the hardest hit areas.
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