I only ended up having 2 classes today, even though normally I will have 5 hours of classes on Thursdays. One of my classes does not start until after vacation though. I haven’t minded not working all my hours yet…..but soon I will be haha. Classes went good. I had a new group of students, about 17 of them, who are my age. I was afraid at first, very afraid. There is a program that is like university except the students take some of their classes at the high school. So voila, I am teaching students who are around my age, [View Full Entry]

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Ryan and my anniversary today! 4 years. I miss him more than ever today, of course. Only 2 months and 9 days until I see him again So this work week I will actually work more than like 4 hours like I did last week. Let me try to explain for how the schedule is set up. I work a total of 12 hours per week, but I have around 16/17 classes that I teach, I am still not really sure! The reason it is so many is because many of the classes come only once every two weeks. It makes [View Full Entry]

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Last night I went over to Maury’s apartment in centre ville which is right in between the bars called L’abbaye and James Joyce. It’s a perfect location! We were drinking some wine and then Annie and Hannah came over and joined us. We then met up with Lydia and Marty, and some new girls we met last night, Katherine, and Laura who was from Seattle. Our goal for the night was to try out some different bars since we always find ourselves back at Falstaff, which we love so much. We went to the Inish Moore which is down the road [View Full Entry]

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These past couple weeks have been amazing. Today is exactly two weeks in France. A lot has happened since then. I feel like I have known my friends here forever and already don’t know what I would do without them! I started teaching on Monday. I had two classes Monday, where the professor was present and the students all asked me questions about myself. The students in these classes were about 16 and 17 years old, like Junior in high school. I was really intimidated and nervous before I began, but the students are really interested and actually very nice and [View Full Entry]

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Okay, its been about a week and a half in france. A lot has happened in the past week! I actually have some friends now, lots of them, from everywhere. Assistants from Australia, United States, England, Ireland, Jamaica, and Spain! And of course lots of French people. However the first couple of days I knew nobody except my roommate, Eva, and since we both can’t speak French perfectly, there is a limited amount of things that we can say to each other. Im really glad she doesn’t speak English though, living with two other people and always speaking French has already [View Full Entry]

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I’m writing this while in France ! Finally got here after a long day of traveling. I left at 1:30 from Boston Logan Airport. Had an hour long flight to Philadelphia, then a three hour layover in Philly. For the first half of it, I watched Sex & the City movie on my laptop, and then when it was about an hour before the flight I kept meeting other assistants who are doing the same program as me, that were on my flight! I was talking to five other girls, all whom were from different parts of the country, and doing [View Full Entry]

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Leaving for France tomorrow, round two of my favorite country :) Its surreal though...I don't really think its hit that I am going to be gone for 7 months, which really isn't that long, but still! Anyways I am hoping to keep up with this blog through my time in Europe, wished I had done this when I studied abroad! [View Full Entry]

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