Autumn Term at the Chalet School

[Vintagejazz]

Just starting a new thread here as I can't spot a new one.

So my lambs feel free to keep spreading the hanes, but watch the slang!

J'ai le gin. Ah, non. Ce n'est pas vrai. J'ai eu le gin mais malheureusement je l'ai drunk. (what is drink in French???)

Isn't it bouvoir or something? J'ai bu? That can't be right. J'ai un 'A' level de français mais l'evidence est mal!

Matey a pris ma gin. Et mes gateaux du magasin. :(

Boire c'est le francais pour drink :o j'ai eu trop beaucoup de practique avec les boissons francais il y a quelques ans quand j'ai essayer de passer mon DEUG (je n'ai pas reussis, a cause des boissons je crois)

C'est le jour anglais demain, n'est pas?

Incidentally, on Julie Berné and Jeanne de Lachennais being "Mlle" rather than Miss - is this because they teach French? Cos Simone is 'Miss Lecoutier'. Does this mean Sally Denny ought to variously be Fräulein-Signorina-whateveritisinRussian?

C'est le jour anglais demain, n'est pas?

Thank fuck for that.

:o just until lunch, like. We can speak incomprehensible gobbledegook after that, and nobody will care! no change there, then

I give up... and so does google translate

I had to use the phrase "quel est le mot pour...." a lot in my French aural. Apparently I got marks for using it too.

French and German days would be gobbledegook from me anyway.

Oh Biddy can give you half a dozen addresses for randoms in Austria and then you'll soon pick it up.

I also have A level French (just) but it was a great many years ago....(old enough to have done O levels..).
That comment of Biddy's always amused me! Go and stay with complete strangers in a country where you don't speak the language and you'll be fine!!!

I am actually learning German at the moment and just encountered the excellent term "Schlafenmilch" (sleepy milk). Needless to say this immediately brought the CS to mind...

A common drink is Swahili speaking countries is maziwa lala (literally sleeping milk)
kenyanewsdaily.com/health-benefits-of-maziwa-lala/

I have to laugh at that whole conversation from Biddy to keep me from rolling my eyes too much - it's the way she turns all wide-eyed on Pam Slater and wonders why she (Slater) doesn't think upping sticks and moving to Switzerland with the school will be the most exciting thing ever. I mean, I think it's perfectly plausible that some people would think that until they realised the extreme insularity of the Platz but surely some wouldn't want to at all, and that can't really be so surprising?
I'm going to probably yarn about this again when I get up to that point in the series, but I'm struck by how Miss Slater is made an example of for not wanting to move, but a number of other staff don't end up going to Switzerland either - are we supposed to assume that these staff are simply resigned to having to stay at Glendower House, or is the point that Miss Slater dares to envisage a career beyond the Chalet School? Why is it alright to aspire to marriage and motherhood as greater than teaching, but not to aspire to professional seniority?

Schlafenmilch is brilliantly apt.

I have just finished Exile. So good. I have a job application to write before I can start on Goes To It though, sadly.

See, the day we can speak English there are hardly any messages. We must sub consciously prefer French!!!

Or, we have been on many health-giving rambles, and as a result half of us are perilously sheltering in a hut that hasn't been used for many months, yet smells faintly of onions and sour milk. The other half are wedged into a barn among the hay crop.

Shame the mountain-top 3G signal isn't that good...

I always thought EBD's German can't have been that good, there are quite a few passages that she uses French but very little German apart from Gruss Gott in the Austrian books and Abendessen etc. in the later ones. I am also struck by they have several French/Latin teachers but the only German teacher appears to be Miss Denny. And I also feel sorry for Miss Slater for being made an example of for not wanting to go to Switzerland, however she does say she wants to try a few things out that wouldn't go down well at the Chalet School. I've always wondered what!

Bubble baths, pupil confidentiality, lying down in bed reading in the mornings, headmistress as ultimate authority rather than local doctors? Ponytails, shop cake and beatniks.

Ah, I forgot the rambles. I expect you are right. How we're the goatherds????

Like your list of Slater's innovations, Nell. Here are a few more. Risk assessments, lessons taking priority over dormitory tidiness, a ban on off-prescription sedatives, an even more stringent ban on singing people back from the brink of death, low-carb breakfasts.

I've just finished reading Phyllida in Form III. It's the third in a series by Evelyn Smith - I've a feeling it's just a trilogy, with no more to come which is sad. They're absolutely bonkers, but I've enjoyed them. The publisher is called Books to Treasure, and I don't know if they're related to Girls Gone By or completely different. Their address is Bristol, and I think GGBP are also in that part of the world, so maybe connected.

Could someone please tell me the password for the one drive. I feel the need for another infusion and my pathetic eyes struggle with the print in my paperbacks.

Hello Chaletians. Just found you. I'm on my way to the Achensee! We'll be there in time for breakfast of bread twists and milky coffee.

"Sleepy milk"?!? I want some.

Slater had to go as she doesn't like Margot.

She also wants a shot at a headship

What a bitch!

I've just realised that Betty-of-the-book-end-incident is best friends with Alicia Leonard... Malory Towers, anyone? Who came first, do we think...?

FruitPudding I've sent you a PM :)