Alors, on y va encore une fois. C’est parti. Formation Civique jour deux.
My second day of Formation Civique was quite similar to the first. We learnt some numbers that we might need to memorise if we ever want to apply for French citizenship.
How big is France? 672m square kilometres How big is the population of France? 67m
How many Regions are there? 18.
How many Departments? 101.
How many Communes? 35,000
We continued to learn about health, employment, accommodation and parenting.
And as ever I learnt some new words:
Laicité – securalism (one of the four values of France)
We had to pick our atelier for the fourth day. Workshop. I chose socio-culturelle.
Depistage – to detect; la soigner– treatment.
Only two days of training left – and next week’s one is in person.
Meanwhile, with the help of Evelina, Euronews’ visa expert, we have applied again for the passeport talent visa which was rejected tout de suite by the embassy in London. This time we are applying to the prefecture in Lyon. It will be too late to avoid two more days of formation civique but it should make staying in France a bit easier for me and Cath.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 