Supply and Demand -- Lecture at L'Université de Paris in Villetaneuse

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Heavily pregnant late in life, I do not know if this child will come to term. My spouse does not yet know. I feel ill in the late afternoons.

Here, you can see my lecture technique in Villetaneuse. I am not sure I will be paid. I am not yet formally engaged, but have been lecturing here for weeks now.

The students are now quite awake, and do not whisper, nor do they ask for breaks. Our material here had to do with supply and demand, per the course program.

I am teaching them to listen to fast English, but I am trying not to revert to any accent I might have used in Ohio or New York, where I lived for years and years.

The objective is to improve their oral comprehension and to get them to respond quickly and appropriately. I do verify that they know the alphabet and numbers, and I am grooming them for their first job interviews.

These are third year students in economics.

Suppy and demand is an interesting topic. How rare, really, are your skills? How will you get past the critical first 60 seconds in any job interview? Do you know how to present yourself as something really special? Do you know how much to demand to be paid?

"SMIC" is a reference to one of the many French minimum wages.

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Earlier in this class, I had an impertinent student who showed up weeks late, with no explanation. He tried to show me his homework on his phone! I ordered him out of the class to go print up a copy. He left his things behind, and I swept them onto the floor, then later picked them up and threw them in the trash bin. In fact, if anything is broken, I will replace it. He is invited to my home or to have a conference with me, and if he does good work, he will get a full written apology for my anger. I don't take any BS in my classes!

The Chinese students here are really interesting, but most are promising. A lot of the minority students are very quiet. I am telling them to speak up. I am grooming them for their first job interviews, and am telling them school is just a diploma factory, and they don't need it! This, from a woman, here heavily pregnant, with 12 years of university studies, and a B.S. and M.B.A. degree with honors and mention, scholarship, too.

I am 53 and this child is my husband's. He does not know yet. I think I will spare him knowing, as he does not want children. We have been married for 18 years and it will be a rare blessing if I give birth. I had problem pregnancies before, and have no children. Three spouses, no kid. Not that I am for reproduction. But when God decides, we go with it, one hopes.

I do switch from French to English here, something I was trained not to do at inlingua, where I am still engaged but never given any work.

I am very disabled and cannot receive any stipends. I wrote to Obama several months ago and said, my dossier was lost again?! It was valid.

You have to shake the students up a little in lectures. We are following the course materials, but I am having them read web bot.

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[SunShine8308]

This session is so heart-warming. I'm sure they will always remember you for this. Since that university was so dysfunctional, if you still have their e-mail addresses, you should contact the students you remember for updates as they may have good information for you now.

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@SunShine8308 Thanks, but I saw one of the students in February and he was very aggressive with me cuz no one's grades ever got posted. I still have not been paid for any of the three lectureships. I told him I have all the materials and they'll get their grades when I get my pay, which was supposed to be in Nov '10 and Feb '11. I e-mailed a few to apprise them of this and got nasty messages back saying "Madame, you are no longer my professor, piss off."

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@SunShine8308 They all know where to reach me and no one has bothered. I lectured at L'Université de Paris before quite a few years ago, the pay was double then and although visiting professors only get paid twice a year, I was paid. It's even worse in Italy, I hear. It's only once a year there and several of my networking pals got screwed out of their pay totally by Italy. They are paying less for teachers & trainers here now than what maids get. I am serious. Ditto in China.

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@SunShine8308 The Chinese RMB is not even valid outside that country. Sure there are lots of jobs posted there but I got the skinny and I merit 30,000 RMB per month there and all expenses paid, and am getting offered like 6,000 per month. The bottom fell out of the ESL market about 8 years ago, worldwide. My video I MUST FIGHT might interest you. It is nothing less than a slave trade, taking away passports and keeping people prisoners for years.

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@SunShine8308 Most of it is owned by organized crime, at this point. A bunch of them got to the French unions about 8 or 9 years ago & changed the Convention Collective. I have a video up with CONVENTION COLLECTIVE in the title you might find interesting. I passed security clearance last year & was invited into the Sarkozy home. I went all the way to the door of the Elysée Palace to say "Non, merci." He's nothing but a connected piece of anti-worker riffraff. I am sure he got my "message."

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@RemiEsther The book is a GEM! They lost their distributor, so I doubt they will sell many. It is a cryin' shame! And so easy for anyone who dabbles in French to read, and a lot is in English! Most is new art, but there is Clovis Trouille, rare, and others, VERY underground. The few who see my essay, which first appeared in THE NEW YORK HANGOVER, extremely disturbing, and none of the names are changed, especially not the Hollywood glitterati! xi

[RemiEsther]

@slobomotion ...oh, that's great! Hope to read some of it soon...:)

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@RemiEsther I did talk to Saf Manzoor in 2000 when my last book came out. He works with Channel 4. I sent him some updates via snail mail, as he gave me his home address in London, but never heard from him again. I did write and pitch a documentary for American public TV last year and it was accepted, but the main producer went to help in Haiti, and I wish him godspeed. I dunno where these channels will lead me, but my new writing just came out in FREAK WAVE and I am authorized to sell it.

[RemiEsther]

..Hiya..loved this. Why don't you put that 'Value' lesson on a DVD and sell it? Some really good stuff there..ps. have you ever thought of approaching Channel 4 (UK on-the-edge channel) about making a fly-on-the-wall documentary of your life in Paris? Those types of shows are very current here as everyone is obsessed with moving abroad. Also your vids about your life are really interesting:) You could also try the BBC, although they're very conservative...