Mazingarbe and other places I call home…
On Saturday I went to meet one of the other assistants in the area, Hannah. She’s an English English assistant, so it won’t be a problem for her when the […]
On Saturday I went to meet one of the other assistants in the area, Hannah. She’s an English English assistant, so it won’t be a problem for her when the […]
So the last post saw me off to Les Expendables (That’s “The Expendables”, for the anglophones), I actually managed to make out most of what was happening, Eric Roberts – bad, Stallone […]
On Friday Mickael came and spoke lots of french at me and I picked out “faire les courses” and “Béthune”…..for some reason completely forgot what faire les coursesmeant even though you learn […]
On Friday Mickael came and spoke lots of french at me and I picked out “faire les courses” and “Béthune”…..for some reason completely forgot what faire les coursesmeant even though you learn […]
On Thursday morning I left the house for the first time myself… .I realised that since arriving late on Tuesday night, and having left the house on Wednesday, only briefly, […]
So the day began at 8am, with me frantically last-minute packing (some say I took after my dad…..) and despite the murderous look in Shields’ eyes as I said “Awww yeah I […]
So my Paris trip began in Lille with the alarm going off at 6:30am, after having gotten to sleep at 5:45…ideal. After insulting it a few times, I finally conceded […]
My only poor excuse for not writing in about a month is that I know how short my time left here is and I made the executive decision that doing […]
I wrote this as one very long, very delayed blog along with my Amsterdam adventures, but to make it easy on you TV-generation kids I’ve split it into 2. So […]