Last night was a late night drive, and while not all of our drives were as late as last night (or lit by as bright a full moon)… it was definitely a week of driving!

Besides teaching in Angers on Monday, there were several parent-teacher meetings in Poitiers for Dominic & Soph, and I started back teaching in Poitiers as well.

Last night it was up to Paris, (Bible School weekend) and Dominic accompanied me for a change. I’ll be quick because I teach early at Bible School today and I need to zoom out soon, so here we go!

Here’s to the end of the first week of the new school year. To a fair extent, we’ve been on the receiving end of some lack of clarity, as school administrators deal with (and present) “nearly finalized” schedules, course objectives and even staffing!

It all reminds me of the pursuit of clarity. First though, let me give you the week’s highlights…

While the calendar may not yet officially herald the end of summer, we all know that Labor Day weekend in North America pretty much shuts it down as things ramp back up for fall.

While ‘Labor Day’ in France is in May, meaning that this is not a holiday weekend for us, still … the implications are the same. Summer is done like dinner!

In addition to one Saturday each month, the national Bible School program in France involves one full week during the month of August as well.

This year, however, I didn’t go up alone. I had company…

We arrived back in France 12 days ago and I think that it was just the night before last that I enjoyed my first full & normal night of sleep / rest! God bless jetlag!

(…being a bit of a nighthawk doesn’t help)

On one hand, it feels like it’s been a quiet week but there’ve been lots of good things.

See what I did there… “LONG Road Home”?

I wish I could take credit for an intentional play on words, but it was out before I was quick enough to even thing of it.

The other part that’s weird about that title is the word “Home”. The lines are beginning to blur. Where’s home. In one way, it’s always going to be Canada but for the time being – and on another level – it’s France. (We even have to buy travel insurance to come to Canada now!)

Let’s talk about the last two weeks… and look ahead to our departure tomorrow.