Mid forties. What are we to make of it? Low energy, thin hair and getting out of bed with aches and pains has become my reality. Moving to Hungary from France came at an interesting time in my life. When we left for France from Canada we felt young and vibrant! I was 37 and…
It is a year today that we left southern France for Budapest Hungary and I cannot tell you how fast it has gone! As Canadians, I guess we are always pretty optimistic, always focussed on the positive. It makes things easier being laid back and letting the change come to us and not trying to…
We decided to go to the Bakats feszt with our neighbour and her family. Like every weekend in Budapest, there is a festival going on somewhere. Our neighbor happens to be the manager of the MÁV in charge of booking events. BUDAPEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MÁV The Budapest Symphony Orchestra M.V (M.V Szimfonikus Zenekar) was founded…
Dear Viktor ORBÁN, please pass a law to put an end to the billboards that tastelessly obstruct the views of our beautiful city of Budapest. Today I showed my French students around the capital of Hungary, Budapest. I was so proud of the city. The blue Danube curves and cuts our city in two; stunningly…
Saturday morning our students left. During the week I worked very hard to vaccum the house, clean the bathrooms, get the bedding changed, and clean the laundry so that the moment they left we could have a traditional HAMORI family day! It has been far too long! Alfonz came back from dropping Paul off at…
It is always times like these that I remember my own mother back home in Canada and think of her life to come on the new frontier of retirement. What will she do with her years of freedom from hard work? What will she do with all her free time? Visit me I hope! Mom…
Twenty minutes from Solymar and it feels like we are on a beach holiday. Along the Danube River in Budapest there are little beaches and restaurants from Spring – Autumn for tourists and locals alike. You can find families eating ice cream, groups of students canoeing up and down the river, and cyclists making their…
Working in the private school, I realize just how much of my TESOL course I actually use each day. At the time I just wanted to get my certificate and to get on with it as I was already teaching for years. It was nothing more than a formality. But once I had the certification…
Some teachers taught the curriculum today. Other teachers taught students today. And there’s a big difference. I didn’t go to school to become a teacher. Nope! I was scouted out in high school for a business management training program to work in a large retail grocery chain in British Columbia, CANADA where I grew up….
We walked down our street, Rue Gambetta, 5 min to the school through the winding alleys, to drop the kids off at their new school. The children of France just finished their fall break, and are fresh and bright eyed for their next semester, a perfect time to introduce Daniel and Angelina into the mix….