Author Archives: thall

(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 →

(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 →

(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 →

(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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →