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When I left France in June, I was sad for a multitude of reasons. Leaving meant hitting the “restart” button on L and I’s long-distance status. I was saying goodbye to my belle-famille until Christmastime. I was seeing some of my students for the last time before they graduated – before they moved on to […]
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Surprise, I went to France! For those of you who don’t know, I went to France for 10 days after my study abroad trip to Athens to visit L and his family. For reasons you’ll discover in a few minutes, I’ve had to keep the trip on the DL since around February, so therefore, I […]
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Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, L and I spent 4 wonderful days exploring Lyon. While neither of us are strangers to the city (this was my third visit and L grew up close by), we both had some new experiences over the course of those 4 days. Here is a quick highlights reel of […]
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I feel so lucky to say that I’ve been able to spend the last two Christmas and New Year’s in France. This Christmas season was filled with so much love, laughter, and high-quality belle-famille time. I don’t have much I want to say in this post, but instead just share some photos from the holidays. I hope […]
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Just two days after I arrived in France, L and I zipped out of Clamecy early Friday morning and headed to his sister’s place in Obernai, France, about 30 minutes outside of Strasbourg. L’s sister (let’s nickname her P) recently started working as a librarian at a collége in Obernai, so we used the vacances de Noel as a […]
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If you read my July Recap post, you’d know that L came to visit me for 3 glorious weeks and we had the best time together! He just left yesterday (heart = broken 😦 ), so in all honesty, I can’t be bothered to write anything. Therefore, please enjoy this photo montage of all our […]
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I’ve officially been home from France for just over a week—if I’m being honest, it still feels a bit weird to be home. I keep expecting for someone to speak to me in French, give me bisous upon greeting, and fall back into the slow-and-steady French way of life. Instead, I’m thinking in both languages […]
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