

What’s it like being a teacher?
Like Alice in Wonderland, it feels as though I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole, had an adventure, and just dizzily surfaced for air. An air laden with déjà vu: I left an autumnal Paris reeling from terrorist attacks and returned to a spring racked by strikes of every possible kind — train, petrol, lightning and flood strikes — all severe enough to hit international headlines. Today, however, feels different. The flood waters are receding and I saw the sun this morning. Just a sh