Annabelle Mou
“You gotta open your eyes when you ski,” I was told after I fell hard while skiing down a steep hill. I was stunned at such a racial joke aimed at Asians and their stereotypical slanted eyes. He saw my expression of disbelief and maybe realized he shouldn’t have said that, but he didn’t excuse... Continue Reading →
Pour un étudiant français, de commencer le premier cours à 8h le matin est complètement normal. C’est la même pour les étudiants taïwanais, mais ils doivent arriver à l’école tous les jours à 7h pour passer un contrôle à 7h20. Le matière du contrôle est différent chaque jour, mais le système du contrôle ne change... Continue Reading →
I remember in my high school back in Taiwan we once had an English composition contest. The subject was “Do you think education is more like the filling of a water bucket or the ignition of a fire?”. Students had to choose a side and elaborate on why they think it’s better. I chose the... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Annabelle Mou
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