I’m celebrating an entire week of Thanksgiving with a new post every day detailing some of the blessings in my life. Check out my post thanking God for everything She has done for me, or read my post appreciating all the loved ones in my life. Ironically enough, some of my most memorable Thanksgivings weren’t… [Read More]
Soixante-Dix-Huit: A French Love Story
I dreamed of falling in love in Paris. I just never expected it to happen quite the way it did. After graduating from Furman University in 2009, I moved to France. I worked as an au pair to a half-French, half-Irish family for ten months in Le Vésinet, a suburb of Paris. In Le Vésinet,… [Read More]
Niort Living: Learning to Love an Ugly Apartment
For the 2010-2011 school year, I worked as an English Teaching Assistant assistant d’anglais in Niort, France as part of TAPIF (Teaching Abroad Program in France). I primarily worked at the Lycée Jean Macé, which also provided an apartment for me and the Spanish Teaching Assistant, Mary Cruz. We were pretty lucky that our high… [Read More]