The rain has fallen, the sun is now shining and Parisians have bumped into me and asked me questions in French so I have really shaken off the tourist look!! My favourite choice for dinner is pasta, Mathias and I cook it most nights (Italian style). My days are full of French lessons at school [...]

I miss the recruitment game but due to my current language set back I had to mold my skills into something else. I just landed a job teaching business English in Paris! I will be teaching groups and individuals mostly working in the financial sector for one of the big banks here. I’ve got a [...]

France has a new president! Not my pick as Ségoléne is better looking. There’s been some riots with 70 odd cars burning in the street. France came very close to having it’s first female president, bugger! The blessing of being in a country when you don’t know the language, is you don’t hear all the [...]

It’s election time in Paris. I see posters of the two remaining candidates, I accept documentation at the top of metro stairways on both of them, I pickup the free newspapers and see more election biz – I understand some words on the page but it doesn’t flow yet for me. Am I worried? No [...]

What can I say, BRING IT ON! France, French and Paris is a tap and I’m drinking as much water as I can get! Yeah baby! Aujourd’hui J’ai leçon en Francais à Paris. C’est tres bien et c’est un peu dificile. (Today I had my first French lesson in Paris. It was very good and [...]