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 [...]

Bonjour! I made it here…after missing the first flight, ha! There were two dates on my ticket, the one in black bold writing was actually the arrival date in Frankfurt. Which meant the little white date in the left hand corner was the departure date. Aunty Chris and I both missed it. So I paid [...]

The guy’s who ran the dot com company Govworks may have had a personality clash but damn they had passion. They got their team cranking in the mornings with a chant yelled out over a sound sea of clapping: “What are we gonna do? Rock ‘em! When are we gonna do it? Every day! How are we [...]

I’m throwing the US, their monkey president, their dollar, their media and a pair of three quarter pants into the mixer to make some rant salad!    Do you know what Blackwater is? Welcome to America, “land of the free, home of the brave,” the singer at last nights Seattle Mariners baseball game belted out [...]

Putting my buzzing ball of experience into words is a challenge. My time in Canada is best described as a symbol, but that symbol is so complex and wonderful it can’t be manifested and seen by the naked eye. Canada and it’s Canadians really know how to show a kiwi a good time!! The bus [...]

Canada, woohoooo! What an experience… I took a three day trip up to Canada (which turned into four). I caught the Clipper ferry from Seattle to Victoria (Vancouver Island) and then caught a bus/ferry to Vancouver B.C. I was blown away by the country and more importantly its people. This blog will be in two [...]