Category Archives: Tristen Hall ’10, French Government Teaching Assistantship

Read posts by Tristen Hall ’10 teaching in France on a French Government Teaching Assistantship (2010-11).

The First Day of Spring

(Caught up! Phew.) Spring is here in the North of France. I might be speaking a bit prematurely, but the sun is out for the second day in a row, and the trees outside my open window are covered in … Continue reading

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Sun in the North of France

(Almost caught up…) Believe it or not, after having finally (more or less) caught you up on my adventures from the last paid vacation, I’m about to go on another. T-minus 11 days until Amsterdam. City of canals, art museums, … Continue reading

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Paris, City of Miracles

(And a third time). And then we went to Paris: that beautiful, old city. We arrived pretty early on New Year’s Eve, without a map, or a place to stay for that night. To further complicate/ confuse things, as we … Continue reading

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Christmas in the North of France

(And again). Having lived in this region for a few months now, I have become quite acclimated to the stillness that permeates all of France on Sunday afternoons. Shops, cafes, and most restaurants close, shutters snap shut in front of … Continue reading

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Late Late Late

More (late) recapping of my Holiday adventures: The Scotland-Dusseldorf adventure started with the very simple, sweet idea of going home with one of my Scottish friends for a few days mid-December, have a fake family Christmas with her, and head … Continue reading

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The New Year

New Year’s resolution numba one: post more blogs. I somehow managed to go blog-less throughout the entirety of December. Ouch. Well, here begins Part A of my Sparknotes version of late November and December 2010. (Yes, Sparknotes, not Cliffnotes. Sparknotes … Continue reading

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Catchin’ Up Part Deux

Turkey Day having come and gone, I feel it my blogging duty to recapitulate my French experience of this most American of holidays. The Saturday before Thanksgiving, I caught the TER down to Valenciennes, about 40 minutes away by the … Continue reading

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Catchin’ Up

Due to a combination of procrastination, internet failure, and general business, I kind of stopped posting there for a while. Sorry ’bout that. Here’s one of two posts I wrote back in November: Things have picked up quite a bit … Continue reading

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Back to the Grind

This last week, much to my delight, I returned to work! And, to my even greater delight, I started taking an even more active part in the lessons. On both Thursday and Friday, for each class, the teachers at my … Continue reading

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Well I’d Never Been to Spain

One of the biggest pluses of being a language assistant in France is having a vacation-heavy French school schedule, allowing us ample time for adventuring. Right now, we’re at the tail-end of the Toussaint (All Saints) holiday, which is about … Continue reading

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