I discovered, surprisingly, that I had improved a lot in French when I was watching a Spanish TV series, La Casa de Papel. The first season was available on Netflix so I chose French audio and English subtitles, but for the second season I had to stream online. It is such a thrilling series that... Continue Reading →
Papi and Mamie
Papa’s parents, Papi and Mamie, are probably the jolliest elders I’ve ever met in my life. Both over eighty years old, they live peacefully in the nice cozy house at Arcachon, one hour away from the famed wine city Bordeaux. What amazed me was how they did not seem old at all - the duo... Continue Reading →
Halfway of Exchange – The next step
With less than five months left of my exchange year, I was obliged to think about the next step. It wasn’t like I never thought about it before though. For the past five months many possibilities have passed through my mind. As my French friends wanted, I did consider staying in France. However, that idea... Continue Reading →
Ski Trip: End
The last day. As much as we wanted to stay here forever, we had to leave early in the afternoon. So we made every minute of our last morning ski worth it. People were saying that we had another evaluation, so as much I wanted to spend the last day on the trails with the... Continue Reading →
Ski Trip: 18 January
Finally a day when our efforts of putting on our ski equipments were not a waste. The weather was still bad, but much better than before. The most important thing was that the wind was not too strong to force the télécabine to stop working. By then I didn’t really care about the weather condition... Continue Reading →
Ski Trip: The Non-Skiing Days
16 January The nice weather didn’t stay long though. Tuesday morning we woke up to a blurry view of the mountains, but despite the incoming blizzard we still went for morning ski. The winds were strong and unfortunately I did not have a face mask, so the bottom half of my face was bombarded by... Continue Reading →
Ski Trip: 15 January
First days somehow always seem to be the best - the weather was sunny and the beautiful blue sky was to die for. We had breakfast at the hostel then changed into ski clothes. Then it was all about marching up the slope in our heavy boots, and carrying our skis onto the bus that... Continue Reading →
Ski Trip : Intro
Stepping into 2018, there are tons of things that I'm anticipating this year. (Not counting them for you though! Won't be fun if y'all know what I will be doing) The six-day ski trip was first in line and I'd been super hyped about it for a long time already. Back in September when I... Continue Reading →
Bonne Année!
31 December 2017 ~ 01 January 2018 First of all, Happy Birthday to my (real) mom! Coolest thing ever to be born on the last day of the year. Just like my epic adventure here in France, the last day of 2017 was set to be epic as well. One of the most important sights... Continue Reading →
Bordeaux
30 December 2017 Festivities call for family to gather together. For New Year's we were at the grandparents' house. Papi and Mamie (French for "grandpa" and "grandma") lived in Arcachon, in a cozy house well-lit by natural light from the numerous picture windows. Of course we weren't going to sit around all day being couch... Continue Reading →
Annabelle Mou
la belle anna 