FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE…

The one thing I'm not great at but that I'm not giving up on...

THE HALF WAY POINT…

I’m nearly half way through my time as an au pair, I can’t believe that I only have just over 5 months left here. I feel that it has both gone quickly and super slowly at times. No doubt the quickest were the first two months, everything being new and time just slips away. The …

SKIN DEEP..?

For today’s post I’m going a little off topic. For this week I’m pushing pause on the Paris life updates and talking about something very close to my heart. Skin. To be precise, acne. Towards the end of last year a well-known beauty blogger known as My Pale Skin, real name Em Ford posted this …

AND JUST LIKE THAT, IT WAS TIME TO GO BACK…

As I sit here starting to write this I’m on the Eurostar heading back to Paris. I’ve spent two weeks in England for Christmas, the first at my parents in Suffolk and the second in London at my sisters. I had every intention of writing a post whilst home, but the truth is I was …

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS…

I’m going to keep it short and sweet this week. In all honesty, I’ve not been up to all that much and with a test coming up on Thursday at school I’ve been trying (note the use of the word trying…I’m having varying degrees of success) to spend some time revising.  It’s no secret that …

LOOKING BACK ON 2018…

2018 has been a big year for me, I've decided to take a look back and think about what I've achieved and what I'm grateful for...

PICKING YOURSELF BACK UP…

In my last post, I was pretty honest about how I’ve been feeling and how I’ve really struggled with not being in my home country the last couple of weeks. I received some really nice messages of support following the post and some really helpful advice from people who’ve been through the same thing. Writing …

THE HONEYMOON IS OVER…

When the sparkle of 'new beginnings' starts to fade...