The auditors were in at the Adechod today and after only 5 minutes into the class, we were ousted out of our room.  Unable to find another available classroom, we ended up in the computer space where it was quite noisy to begin with but after a while all the students departed, leaving just one lady working on her computer in the corner.  Peter was all for sitting outside or decamping to a local café! 

We worked on “Les Relatifs Simples”, i.e., “qui”, “que”, “quoi”, “don’t” and “ou”, all of which I am familiar with except “dont” which means ‘whose’ or ‘of which’ or ‘of whom’.   I also learnt that in French one does not say, for example, ‘the day when I arrived’ but ‘the day where I arrived’, using “ou” and not “quand”.   So the first round of exercises was ‘relatively’ easy.  We then went on to some slightly more difficult “relatifs simples” consisting of “ce qui”, “ce que” and “ce dont” which Rick and I agreed were far from ‘simple’ and something we thought we would never use.   We found these exercises quite hard especially as in English we can use either one or the other in a sentence.  I’m confused just writing about it!

Next Thursday French has been cancelled as there are no free classrooms at all.