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
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
It seems anachronistic to publish these pictures today. We are close to the end of November, I should talk to you about how to keep a body temperature warm enough to feel comfortable, but well,
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
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
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
It’s started snowing last night when I was on my way home. Stuck in my coat, my glasses blurred by the cold and my hands frozen on my bike, I thought of the dreamy weekend
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
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
October 31st, my first Halloween in the United States. We usually don’t celebrate Halloween in France: “commercial” and “it’s not our tradition” are the two main arguments for being blase about it… But here, it’s huge.
Salem, the witch town, is not far away from Boston. Hurricane Sandy was getting close,we thought that we didn’t have much time left to visit this city, famous for Halloween celebrations. It was now or
The wind is blowing in Boston. Hurricane Sandy is getting closer. The city is almost shut down, there’s a state emergency. I was asked to work from home today, my yoga class was cancelled, the