Finished with yet another class

Friday is technically the last day of Expression Ecrite, but as I won't be there, today was my last day in that class. Campbell and I gave our final presentation, on Le foot en France, which our professor seemed to like. I've now finished with two of my classes here in France.

Speaking of school, there was good news this weekend: many French universities decided to stop striking. Of course, six are still on strike, including La Fac in Aix. Among the problems for French students? Their student loans and scholarships might not be renewed for next year if they don't have finals this semester. If there are no finals, students might have to retake this schoolyear—Damien's girlfriend, for example, will probably have to spend an extra year at university because of the strike. Students can't apply for summer jobs or internships because they don't know when they'll be done with this semester. And foreign exchange students are in real trouble as they can't even book their plane tickets home.

The picture above is from La Fac. This is week sixteen of strikes, and the school is still under blocage—in essence, student unions pile up chairs and desks so that neither faculty nor students can enter the school.