Cheese, wine, baguettes and COLD days!
Hello all!!
I decided it was about time for a new update.
The last time I wrote was during my final few days in Thailand. I left Thailand on the 2nd of August, and flew to Paris to spend some time with my family. The day I left Thailand was a strange one. I did not feel as though I was leaving for ever - more that I was going on holiday and would be returning.
After a long flight (changing in Bahrain) I arrived in Paris at 0700 on the 3rd of August. My dad drove up to Paris to collect me and we got home at around lunch time. It was wonderful to see all my family. My sister had flown over from Switzerland with my little niece Abbie. Obviously I am biased but she is one beautiful little lady! She has this wonderful habit of doing something wrong (maybe dropping something) and then saying uh-oh (like a telly tubbie). It is very funny. My sister's husband flew out for a week too and it was good to catch up with him - I haven't seen him for a long time.
Most of the first two weeks was spent doing not a lot, catching up, drinking lots of rose wine and eating french bread and cheese as much as humanly possible! ah happy days.
At the moment my friend Nikki and her husband Pete are staying. Nikki came out to visit me in Thailand a couple of years ago but I haven't seen her since so we have had a lot of gossiping to do in order to fill in the last 2 years! They have been here for a week or so and go back tomorrow.
Next week is all change again for me. I have booked myself on a coach to Madrid next Wednseday night (I leave Poitiers at 2130 and get into Madrid at 1030 the next morning). I am staying in Madrid overnight so I can have a look around and then I will move on to Andalucia.
I have a new teaching job in a town called Martos (close to Jaen) in rural Andalucia. It is teaching at a private language school, and I have a year contract. At the moment I am trying to learn Spanish to make my initial stay a little easier! I am not doing awfully well though - there is always something else to do.
I am really looking forward to working in Spain. It will certainly be different from the past few years spent in Asia (China and Thailand) but I think it will reap its own rewards. I am hoping to learn how to do pottery whilst I am there (and maybe flamenco dancing and bullfighting of course!).
Well, that is all from me now. I hope all is well with you and I will update this blog again when I have been in Spain for a while.
Take care
Laura
x
I decided it was about time for a new update.
The last time I wrote was during my final few days in Thailand. I left Thailand on the 2nd of August, and flew to Paris to spend some time with my family. The day I left Thailand was a strange one. I did not feel as though I was leaving for ever - more that I was going on holiday and would be returning.
After a long flight (changing in Bahrain) I arrived in Paris at 0700 on the 3rd of August. My dad drove up to Paris to collect me and we got home at around lunch time. It was wonderful to see all my family. My sister had flown over from Switzerland with my little niece Abbie. Obviously I am biased but she is one beautiful little lady! She has this wonderful habit of doing something wrong (maybe dropping something) and then saying uh-oh (like a telly tubbie). It is very funny. My sister's husband flew out for a week too and it was good to catch up with him - I haven't seen him for a long time.
Most of the first two weeks was spent doing not a lot, catching up, drinking lots of rose wine and eating french bread and cheese as much as humanly possible! ah happy days.
At the moment my friend Nikki and her husband Pete are staying. Nikki came out to visit me in Thailand a couple of years ago but I haven't seen her since so we have had a lot of gossiping to do in order to fill in the last 2 years! They have been here for a week or so and go back tomorrow.
Next week is all change again for me. I have booked myself on a coach to Madrid next Wednseday night (I leave Poitiers at 2130 and get into Madrid at 1030 the next morning). I am staying in Madrid overnight so I can have a look around and then I will move on to Andalucia.
I have a new teaching job in a town called Martos (close to Jaen) in rural Andalucia. It is teaching at a private language school, and I have a year contract. At the moment I am trying to learn Spanish to make my initial stay a little easier! I am not doing awfully well though - there is always something else to do.
I am really looking forward to working in Spain. It will certainly be different from the past few years spent in Asia (China and Thailand) but I think it will reap its own rewards. I am hoping to learn how to do pottery whilst I am there (and maybe flamenco dancing and bullfighting of course!).
Well, that is all from me now. I hope all is well with you and I will update this blog again when I have been in Spain for a while.
Take care
Laura
x
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