As part of the French government's TAPIF program, I have been placed in a French high school to be an English assistant for seven months. I've been in my town, Saint-Quentin, since last week and have been settling in over the past few days. Having arrived from the Washington, DC area (population: 5 million), I thought Saint-Quentin, with its 56,000 inhabitants, would be very small. I'm finding that it feels like a city, though, with a lovely downtown area and plenty of buses with routes all over the city.
So far my time has been taken up with various administrative tasks (always a big deal in French bureaucracy), traveling to Amiens for my program's orientation, and getting to know my school, the teachers I'll be working with, and other assistants. This weekend, I managed to take a break from my to-do list and wandered for a few hours, snapping some pictures of the city's central square as I went.
~ Sign pointing to my school: Lycee Pierre de la Ramee ~
~ Sleepy street on Sunday~
~ The Hotel de Ville: Saint-Quentin's town hall~
~ Garden area in the city center ~
~ Not sure what this is about, but he freaks me out a little~
~ A few bars/cafes ~
Umm that statue is freaking terrifying
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