Uncategorized – Seven Months in Marseille

Quarantine in France – How Life Went from Totally Normal to Lock Down in the Space of a Weekend

The situation escalated so quickly here from every day life to total lock down.

Marseille Bucket List, Revisited

Very early on in this teaching assistant program, I wrote a bucket list of all the things I would like to do during our time here in Marseille. You can check out that post here: https://7mim.travel.blog/2019/10/29/marseille-bucket-list/ With only six-eight weeks left of the program, I feel it’s time to revise and update that list. OfContinue reading “Marseille Bucket List, Revisited”

The Magic of Monthly Museum Rounds in Marseille

Rounds, visits, trips, excursions… there’s no word for it beginning with M (I just checked on thesaurus.com) so the alliterative appellation of this article was marred! So on the first Sunday of every month, museums here are free to visit. I think this is a great initiative to promote local culture and history, as wellContinue reading “The Magic of Monthly Museum Rounds in Marseille”

Starting to Get the Hang of This Teaching Assistant Lark

Woo, another term’s finished and back on school holidays again 😀 This holiday is especially exciting as we’ve been invited to stay with family for a week in Chamonix! Finally right at the end of term (and with only one more to go) I’m just starting to feel sorta kinda comfortable and confident in myContinue reading “Starting to Get the Hang of This Teaching Assistant Lark”

Now it’s February – Four Months Down

Well it’s once again time for another reflection at the end of another month of my program! Now that January is over, that’s four months out of seven complete. There’s only three months left to go until the program is over, which will officially be on the 30th of April. Actually, I’m trying to getContinue reading “Now it’s February – Four Months Down”

Our Next Steps

So I may or may not have had a spectacular meltdown in the staff room at school today at lunch time. I opened up to a teacher about how down I’ve been feeling, which is resulting in lack of motivation to participate in my language assistant program, and that opened up *quite* the can ofContinue reading “Our Next Steps”

First Day of Term!

After quite a long time away from this particular school, because of the teacher strikes immediately followed by school holidays, it was exciting to return and actually be a language assistant again. I didn’t quite realise how long it had been until I walked my usual route and noticed how much I’d missed it overContinue reading “First Day of Term!”

Bratislava: A Little Gem of a City

OMG OMG OMG! We finally visited Slovakia!! One of my dream countries to visit for years! Yes, I know it’s a fairly obscure dream destination, but as far as I’m concerned, it should be on everyone’s list. It’s a small country with beautiful scenery, nice people, good food and good shopping. Public transport is efficientContinue reading “Bratislava: A Little Gem of a City”

Another Of My Seven Months Down: Reflections on December

And suddenly, only four months to go until the language assistant program is over… December was definitely a quiet month. We’d spent a month already in our studio apartment and so we could enjoy starting to be in the swing of things, after the stress and new beginnings of both October and November. During DecemberContinue reading “Another Of My Seven Months Down: Reflections on December”

Just Made it Onto Our Plane!!

Josh and I tried out the car pooling service, Blablacar, for the first time to get to the airport for our flight to Vienna last week. The trains are *still* not running due to on-going strikes, and the bus tickets are a hefty 10 euros per person each way. So when I found this blablacarContinue reading “Just Made it Onto Our Plane!!”