I am coming to you today from my bed, surrounded by piles of my clothes, paperwork, loan items to return. To my left, the open IKEA hanging and shelving unit is mostly bare. Everything is stuffed in my big bag by the door, for a practice weigh. I am trying…
Category: Assistant de langue
A Love/Hate Letter to the French Language
Dear French, You suck. I’ll get to the love part in a minute, but first, let’s just be clear: I hate you just way too much of the time. And yet… Ahhh… So much of life is tucked away inside the words “and yet.” (Once, in primary school, I read…
Back Again | French Riviera
Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve written here. I have been back in… well, Europe, for over two months now (actually today is day eighty(!) so I told myself I absolutely had to get this posted today). Not just France, as some travels have already been had. (More…
What am I actually doing? | Assistant de langue
When you apply for this program, you don’t really know quite what it will look like. In the lead up, I tried to find as many different blog posts as I could done by former assistants to try to get an on-the-ground perspective. Now that I am in here, I…