We, the both of us together, started travelling in 2011. Leaving France, our home, our jobs for a better place. The question was: where to? How do you choose a country to live in? How can you choose when you don’t know what the place looks like? We- I speak for ourselves- can’t. We can’t […]
Koľko jazykov vieš, toľkokrát si človekom
“The more languages you know, the more men you are.” Being a teacher doesn’t mean that you have all the knowledge. Being a teacher includes learning from your students. And last week, I learnt something. A simple sentence, an old proverb still used in Slovakia. A proverb that explains why Slovaks are open-minded, why it’s […]
Hide-and-seek: Secrets of Bratislava
On my very first day in Bratislava I noticed two things: the blue sky and this gentleman keeping me company in the main square. A week later, while wandering around the old town I saw my gentleman’s friend: the man […]
Memoirs of a teacher in China
Those who have kept in touch with me know that teaching in China wasn’t always easy. But towards the end of my contract, having gotten used to… well, everything, I looked at my job with what was missing at first: positivity. And teaching in China became all of the sudden the most positive experience I […]
Anatomy and Sex: what are we shy about?
This is my personal experience of the situation, many others have different things to say! This is something I’ve wanted to talk about for a long time. Among the billion other things that changed for me in China is the consideration of the human body. Whether it is medical or sexual, the human body […]
Sleepy travels
Howdy my friends! Today I welcome you into my ridiculous habit of backpacker: sleeping. Before I started travelling I would struggle to fall asleep. Anxiety, nightmares or simply insomnia, I’ve spent years sleeping 5 hours a night, waking up tired and feeling worse than the day before. BUT Ever since we’ve left France, since we’ve […]
Volunteering can do harm
I came across this article on The Guardian ‘s website and decided to post it here before I even finished reading it. For all those -like me- who want to go out and help, who are moved by orphan children, by people who need any kind of help, you need to take some things into consideration […]
Two years later, my week still starts on Sunday
Two years after having written this and a minute after re reading that post, I realize that today is Sunday, that I am again looking for a new job and that I feel the same way I felt when I wrote that first note. I feel the same, I’m in the same place feeling the same […]
