Practice makes perfect
December 16, 2013
Post written by Rosemary Ash. After over three months of living in the country of the language you are studying, linguistic knowledge or skills are bound to have been gained in some form or another, or so you would hope! One portion of mine is comprised of a small vocabulary book I try to keep …
Discovering new words everyday
December 15, 2013
Hello and Bonjour à tous, I hope everyone is well. I can’t believe that Christmas is already upon us… how time flies when you’re having fun! Everything is going well for me in France; after my first three months I feel as though I have fully settled in and made my mark on the community. …
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 …
Wandering donkeys and goats..sums up life in Corsica
Post by Josephine Adams Since my arrival, I have regularly heard Corsica described as a place that the French consider to be more like Italy than France, and which the Italians consider to be culturally French. Politically a part of mainland France, but situated closer to Italy, this Mediterranean island, with its turbulent history of …
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, …
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