Le Havre One of my first real weekends away during my last contract was to Le Havre. In fact, it was a little more than a weekend, as there had been a problem during some maintenance at the school, resulting in the water being turned off and the school essentially…
Tag: france
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…
Opulence | Paris, Again
Another set of holidays has passed in my part of France. It was my last fortnight off. Then six weeks of teaching, and my contract will end shortly into the next lot of holidays. They say time flies — but have we considered the possibility that it teleports? The evidence…
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
This is a much more recently written post for me. I visited the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery just two weeks ago, and wrote this during my visit, while my hands turned a series of different colours from the cold. I hope you enjoy this little visit with me. You get…
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…
Marseille Adventures
After my time in Nice, I moved on to five days in Marseille. I had expected to like it more than Nice, and so had planned to spend my birthday there. It didn’t quite go as I expected really. I did have the smoothest train catching of my time to…
Nice is Nice
(Some photos feature in this post, but you can access the full gallery here.) The school holidays began only three weeks after I started my role here as an English Language Assistant. Between doing prep work for classes and studying for my end of year exams, for my French classes…
La France, c’est different !
When you move countries, you know things are going to be different. There are some things you know beforehand, that you hear through the grapevine (which, these days, mostly just means the internet)- you know, stuff like driving on a different side of the road, or, in the case of…
Are the French Rude?
The titular question is not usually a question I get asked- rather it is a statement often said to me. I have heard it quite a number of times, in many ways, from many different sources. Some people dial it in and say “Parisians” instead, which is at least a…