What are the new habits, the new lifestyle I have to deal with now that I left France to the United States?
We bought the tickets to fly to Florida, and only after that we wondered what we could do there. Stay on the beach? Not our style. So we started reading guides, and the name “Keys”
It’s our first Christmas in the United States. We decided a long time ago to not coming back to France – too expensive, not enough time and pretty complicated since our families lived in different
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
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
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
Louisiana and New Orleans… I dreamt of these places for years, thanks to books, movies and TV shows… I also had some vague knowledge of some kind of French history in Louisiana, sold a few centuries
A few weeks ago, I ran into the blog of 2 French people from Marseilles (a big city in the South of France) who moved to Boston for 3 years. They are now back in France, too
Since it’s my first Halloween in the US, I wanted to do a “jack-o-lantern”, this carved pumpkin with a monster face. I’m supposed to leave it by a window or in front of my building