It hasn’t been a waste of time after all!
December 2, 2013
Hello everyone, apologies for the lack of blog post recently, I can’t lie and say that I have been horrifically busy, more that I have been avoiding anything requiring intellectual basis (other than going to lectures… obviously) and I’ve been trying really hard to boost up my Russian recently, after a couple of test failures. …
Making friends in Bordeaux
November 5, 2013
In just under week, I will have been in Bordeaux for two months. I have met a great deal of people, visited and been to a whole heap of places and had to tackle lots of problems on my own. Although some has been a challenge, I am actually looking back thinking where has the …
It was only when I arrived in northern Brittany that I realised how unprepared I really was
November 4, 2013
The past few weeks have undoubtedly been an enormous learning experience for me. After choosing to undertake a British Council Assistantship in Brittany, I spent the weeks before my arrival in France excited to be teaching English as a foreign language, especially as I hope to become a teacher in the future. On the ferry …
So far, so good
I think that when you ask people what do they think about travelling- most of them will say they love it. But when you travel and visit a country for a couple of hours, days, even a week, it is way different to when you live in that country for couple of months. Well, I …
Adapting nicely to the French ways in Paris
Post written by Charlie Page My year abroad didn’t exactly get off to the best off starts when I arrived at the place where I would be living until April a month ahead of when my host family thought I should arrive! Safe to say that they were not best impressed with me being unable …
No need for butterflies in Niort, France
Post written by Rosemary Ash So here I am, over a month in to my experience as an English Language Teaching Assistant in the town of Niort in France. And I’ve got to say, it’s been great. After a long ferry crossing and couple of days meander down the French autoroute, the time finally came …
Appreciating Parisian culture
October 24, 2013
I’ve been in France for about a month now and it has been, let’s say interesting. I arrived with mountains of paperwork, hoping to be ready for the bureaucratic administrative system that France is famous for. It more than lived up to its expectation and I have been inundated with yet more mounds of paper, …
A fond farewell to Spain
October 22, 2013
So, after my time in Valencia, 2 weeks working on Summer Schools at UoN and one afternoon spent moving my stuff from my house in Nottingham back home, I spent a night at home and then jetted off to Madrid! I arrived eager to start the next part of my Year Abroad although was also …
Getting to know Tours
Post by Jasmine Philpott Well, the first leg of my assistantship is coming to an end, (admittedly said first leg only lasted 3 weeks, but still) and I can safely say that I am not going to want to leave Tours come April. It is absurd to think that this time 9 months ago I …
When in France…
October 20, 2013
Post written by Katherine Hughes Like stepping into a scene from Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’, I can’t believe how lucky I am to have landed a teaching placement in the rustic town of Alençon in France. Having spent the last three months in Heidelberg, Germany and just settling into the culture and routine there, …
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