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Friday, September 5, 2025

Katherine's Summer Update as a Deauville Teaching Assistant

 Bonjour! We are finishing up summer and heading into the new school year here in Deauville.

The school year starts the first week of September in France, and typically teachers will start the

week before to get ready for the school year. Between organizing rooms, cleaning and lesson

planning- there is a lot to do!

Summer passed by quickly with not only work but vacation as well! I had all of July off for

vacation and I went to Pornic which is on the coast by Nantes and on the border of Brittany.

Afterwards I worked the first two weeks of August at the Centre Loisir- “Club Ado” that is run by

the city of Deauville. There, we work with adolescents, kids 12-17 years told. It’s kind of like a

day camp in the United States.I got to participate in all sorts of activities from board games and

beach volleyball to crossfit. They had a theme this past summer of “USA” which made it fun to

incorporate American food and activities into the schedule. We played cornhole and did some

country dancing. At the end of each week they have a “soirée” and the week that I was there we

ended the week with a trivia game, “Burger Quiz” that had American-themed questions such as

“Who was the first President of the United States?” “Burger Quiz” was a trivia TV show that was

popular in France and so for our soirée we played the game while eating burgers for dinner.

I am excited to be starting the school year again and ready to welcome the students back!






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