This time last year, I had just moved to France where I was teaching English in a high school.

How I am back in England to do the final year of my French and Philosophy degree. It is hard, I have a lot of self doubts but I hope I can do it.

I hope you are all doing ok! Tell me something about your past year that stands out

Hello.

I have made a personal challange to read 50 books in 2008. So far I have read 26, here they are along with my ratings out of 10.

1. Recontre avec une star - Dan Mitrecey (2/10)
2. Nouvelles angalises et américaines d'aujourdui - Short stories by different writers. (4/10)
3. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (5/10)
4. Le Sabotage amoureux - Amélie Nothomb. (7/10)
5. the five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albo (9/10)
6. for one more day - Mitch Albom (8/10)
7. Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (8/10)
8. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (7/10)
9. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (5/10)
10. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards (6/10)
11. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (10/10)
12. Water for Elephants - Sara Green (5/10)
13. are you alone on purpose? Nancy Werlin (6/10)
14. A Year In The Merde - Stephen Clarke (8/10)
15. The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger (10/10)
16. Merde Actually - Stephen Clarke (7/10)
17 The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. (7/10)
18. Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger (6/10)
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (8/10)
20. Awakening the Virgin - Edited by Nicole Foster (6/10)
21. When Daddy Comes Home Toni Maguire (5/10)
22. Thin - Grace Bowman (7/10)
23. Tell me why, mummy - David Thomas (5/10)
24. Oscar et la dame rose - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (9/10)
25. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver. (7/10)
26. Slim to None - Jennifer Hendricks (5/10)

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In other news, I am still in France but move back to England 30th April. I am ready to go home now! Also looking forward to being back with my love, who will (unfortunatly) be in Canada until the middle of June as part of medical degree. Boo hiss.

Anyway, yes. Teaching english is both fun and hard, challenging and inspiring. I will miss it but i cannot wait to go back to uni and an English speaking country

Hope everyone is well

xxx

ok, so im in france doing the teaching thing. i constantly have chalk all over my hands. i am planning lessons. im walking through the corridors with hundreds of french kids shouting my name and then saying 'HELLO HELLO HELLO'.

so that is fun.


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