Xavier’s blog

Monday was a black day. My both classes had to pass a test, and I found to be quite bad at my job that day.
Explanations…

As you all know, it’s my very first experience as a teacher. Though I give class at the University, it’s more comparable to a college class. Moreover, I’ve got only 12 […]

Saturday night, we went out with Bénédicte, Julien and Elias. First we all took an Amstel at the Safari Club (they serve it in big bottles of 75cl). Tables under a roof, with a 30 inch television showing an episode of “Les feux de l’amour” (or alike). At 11:30pm, we moved to the local discotheque, […]

Last but not least, the weekend! The chance to break the rhythm of the week. So I woke up at 8 (instead of 6 and something!), I launched and went to the university at 10. The thing is that I told my student of my second class that they could come Saturday to practice […]

I’ve been teaching all day long. Although I had to give only 6 hours (officially), I did a bit more than 7 that day.
The thing is that when you start explaining something, you can’t stop half way. And since I have a bit of professional consciousness, I couldn’t let my student goin’ back home for […]

Today was y first light day.
With the agreement of Bonaventure, the rector of the university, I’ve reduced my charge to 6 hours a day.
And actually, I did almost 7 hours today since I’ve also reduced the Tea-break (which by the way has tea only in its name!) to 15 mn instead of half an hour […]

Amis francophones, je suis désolé mais ce post, comme les suivants relatifs à mon travail ici au Burundi, seront en anglais.
Devant faire un rapport d’activité à la fin de mon séjour (en espagnol ou anglais), cela me fera gagner du temps.
Ca tombe bien, car j’en ai justement pas beaucoup

So, here we are.
Tuesday 6th, […]

Attention: je suis fort conscient qu’on ne peut pas tirer de quelconques conclusions après 2 jours, le but de ce post est juste de vous faire partager mes pensées à chaud. Il est possible que je réfuterai plus tard certaines de ces pensées hâtives.

Deux choses m’ont marqué depuis mon arrivée ici.
D’abord, la ressemblance avec le […]

Après 24h de voyage, je suis (enfin) arrivé à Ngozi!
Finalement, l’avion a été moins pénible que ce que je ne pensais. J’ai vraiment beaucoup dormi et du coup c’est passé assez vite.
J’ai juste regarder le film “A history of violence” sur mon portable, qui est bien mais sans plus. Je n’irai pas jusqu’à le conseiller […]

“Dear Maximilien Maus de Rolley and Xavier Damman ,
Congratulations!! I am pleased to inform you that your business plan has been selected as one of the finalists following the preliminary judging rounds. The Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition Executive Team would like to invite your team to participate in the final round of competition at Queen’s University […]

Je viens d’apprendre la semaine passée que l’université de Madrid m’octroie une bourse pour donner des cours d’informatique (bases de données et linux) à Ngozi[1]. Bref, je pars le 2 février de Madrid, j’arrive là-bas le 3 (après 21h de voyage et en transitant par Frankfurt et Addis Ababa[2]). Je reviendrai à Madrid le 24/02. […]