Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 12. Aug, 2011
Read Mihi’s latest post. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand, and she’s just arrived home from her OE (overseas experience) in France. I’m now back in Wellington, New Zealand, having completed my ten month teaching stint in France. After stepping off the plane and greeting my smiling family (armed with a Welcome Home sign) [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 29. Jun, 2011
Read regular posts from Mihi. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand, and each week she tells us about living in France and speaking French. It’s my final week of teaching! My sejour in France is rapidly coming to a close. So rapidly, in fact, that I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. It’s time to wind [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 12. Jun, 2011
Read regular posts from Mihi. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand, and each week she tells us about living in France and speaking French. Writing and reading in French are important to me, but speaking is the only way that I can express my personality and my character in France. My opinions, my sense [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 25. May, 2011
Read regular posts from Mihi. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand and each week she tells us about living in France and speaking French. I’ve been speaking lots of French lately, getting out and about on the weekend, having good conversations with friends. It’s made me think more about how I feel when I [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 15. May, 2011
Read about how a Chinese speaker of English, living for a time in New Zealand, is facing “a brave new world”, misunderstandings included. In a cheerful tone in her article “Misunderstandings”, Mihiata Pirini tells us five interesting misunderstanding experiences during her stay in France. As she believes, these misunderstandings happen because of her “mishearing” or [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 15. May, 2011
Read about how a Chinese speaker of English, living for a time in New Zealand, is going to embrace the new “me”. Skimming the regular guest posts of Living abroad for at least 1 hour took away my study-life balance, but Embracing the new “me” really caught my eyes. I do love the sentence “To [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 05. May, 2011
Read regular posts from Mihi. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand and each week she tells us about living in France and speaking French. So I recently spent two days down south, in Marseille – France’s second largest city. I thought it would be pretty different to the northern Brittany region (A taste of [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 14. Apr, 2011
Read regular posts from Mihi. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand and each week she tells us about living in France and speaking French. A few weeks ago it was the 1st of April, or what the French call “Le Poisson d’Avril” (the April fish). Instead of playing April Fools’ jokes on one another, [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 31. Mar, 2011
Read regular posts from Mihi. She’s a Kiwi from Wellington, New Zealand and each week she tells us about living in France and speaking French. I did it! Sunday morning, drove out to Saint-André des Eaux with Laurent from my running club, and ran a half-marathon on French soil. The event had a great friendly [...]
Posted in Blog, Living abroad on 24. Mar, 2011
Read regular guest posts about a Kiwi living abroad in a non-English speaking country. I’m back at work after the school holidays. Some fellow language assistants and I hired a car and a French gite (a holiday home) and did a tour of Brittany, an area in the northwest of France and very [...]
