Denial and Frustration (Moving and Unemployment)
So, now that my contract is officially over, I've been out of the lycée for two weeks, my more than a month-long job search is turning around nothing but let-downs…
Entries about travel experiences or places
Franchement, my teaching experience
If you know me personally and/or have talked to me about my experiences teaching, you'll know that it hasn't been the easiest for me. I started in October with minimal…
PIEROGI!
So I've been traveling for the last two weeks. It's been tiring, but epic. I'm in Warsaw (Warszawa), Poland right now. I just needed to share the emotion I felt…
Château de Bouthéon
Yesterday we took a trip to a local chateau. It's funny living in a place where you can visit castles in your spare time. It's not like the United States…
Irony in Alsace
During my trip to Alsace (region of France in the north bordering Germany), I experienced an amusing ironic moment. I found myself having dinner at an Alsacien family's house with…
La Capitale de Noël
As I said in my last post, I've just had 2 weeks of vacation. I started out by taking a short trip to Alsace. Though in this case, short trip…
“How do you say ‘foie gras’ in English?”
{EDIT 11 MAY 2011: Click for a pronunciation guide of the word "foie gras."} So coming back from 2 weeks of vacation and tomorrow will be my first day back…
Snow + French people = Chaos
So the week before Christmas vacation, there were threats of a "big storm" that was said to yield about 10 cm of snow in the Loire. (10 cm is about…
Christmas cookies (re: Continued battle with convection oven part 2)
So, I decided instead of buying gifts for everyone in the French family that I was with for Christmas, that I would continue the cultural exchange and make something that…
The Continued Battle with the Convection Oven
Because I'm an American in France and there are certain American delicacies I just cannot live without, I have been putting my microwave convection oven to the test. The latest…