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Europe » France » Picardy » Chamant October 19th 2012

I arrived in Paris Charles de Gaulle. I was promised that one of the current employees of the ecurie I was going to work at would be there to pick me up. She was there allright, but was not given my cell number, only a description that I had a black hair. Brilliant. Especially as at the same time there had landed a flight from Tokyo, Dubai and Delhi! So a girl with a black hair was easy to find! Now, I have a confession to make. I am a finn (that was not it..). And I absolutely hate winter, snow, frost and all that shit. (no, I don't like sauna either, or vodka..). And as I arrived, so did the coldest winter for over 50 years! It was frost as I started to work, luckily, ... read more
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Europe » France » Picardy » Chamant October 19th 2012

I was 34 years old, running my own business in Finland. A racing stable, for almost 8 long years. I had planned to quit everything and move abroad, once again and was growing more and more restless as time went by. In the end of 2011, November, my relationship was a wreck, economical recession had (and still has) a strong hold of Finnish economy so when I got a call and was given a chance to work in France, a final decision was quickly made! So, off I went. Me, a smalltown girl, who never had even thaught of moving to France of all the places, who spoke about 4 words of French and had one or two prejudices of the French. ...so how about that! My employer was a Swedish fella, a real piece of ... read more
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