November 2012

How to speak good English?

Living in a foreign country is probably the best way to learn a new language quickly. I’ve spent more than 12 years to trying to learn English, but as soon as I arrived in the

My first Thanksgiving // Rustic and veggie

Fourth Thursday of November – one week after our French Beaujolais nouveau – the United States celebrate Thanksgiving. There’s no way you can avoid it: the country seems to stop living for one day, everything

Stand up comedy and Louis CK

I love watching TV shows, using always the same excuse: it improves my English (yeah, even with Gossip Girl). I used to follow a blog – Le Monde des séries, because this guy said that

Utah // Zion & bisons

I’m not done with our summer road trip… even if it was a long time ago…  We are August 28th, we are about to leave our motel in Utah to California. We have a very long day

How to tip in the United States

We unfortunately can’t escape from tipping, even if we thing “it’s expensive enough with the taxes and everything”. We need to tip here in the United States! We’ve been here for almost one year, so

Election 2012 // A long night…

For the last months, we were overwhelmed by a lot of information about the campaign (I even got cupcakes “democrat” and “republican” – my favorite product from these election).  Fortunately, we don’t belong to a

How to make American friends

United States are Friends country. Since I believe everything I’m told, I was expecting to have a group a friends with whom I could go out for a beer, or tell all my secrets to