Hello there,
My blog is a sort of diary. It's my first, so bear with me,I'm not used to all this! I want it to be about France, about my past, future, my achievements, my moving on.
For today, here it goes:
I have several choices dans ma vie and these are:
a) Die early from heart attack due to regular abuse of body through alcohol, smoking and lack of exercise
b) Get sacked for not being a dynamic multi-tasking uberwoman hurtling towards a nervous breakdown in the Rat Race
c) Go travelling with D (the boyfriend), forget we need a pension,spend all our savings, get lost in a jungle then eventually move to france, become french and scorn 'les anglais', no, sorry, 'les roast-boeufs' with sufficient authenticity & hostility that Charles de Gaulle would have been proud of.
d) Vote in the May election.
No-one chooses (d) these days. Voter apathy all the way. So what do others recommend I wonder? It's going to obviously be (c); you can smell the bias several countries away!
I'm actually not doing a bad job of masking the fact that I feel really low today.
Why? Well, primarily 'career' is the answer. I came out of uni thinking, 'great, I can start a proper life now', HAH, balls, don't believe it!!! But that is another rant anyway.
PS I will upload a pic as soon as I have one. Also - visit www.huskyz.com
Joanne
Hi Charlotte thanks for your comment on my blog.
Moving to France is something we've always wanted to do and thought that if we don't try it then we'll regret it for life. However, if things don't work out in the future we can always go back to the UK and so we've lost nothing- just gained a fab converted house and barn.
It's easy to make friends here, it really depends on your personality: if you can do it in the UK you can do it in France. I have to admit that we haven't had a great deal of time to do it yet but then we've got loads of work to do.
The renovation is going well and we're working on the first of four bedrooms at the moment. Well we need one for the visitors don't we?
Anyway, I hope your plans work out but remember that France has it's fair share of problems too. We've found that the area we live in (the Auvergne) is quite poor and unemployment is high as like all of France. The best advice I'd give is to rent before you buy as it's inexpensive and you can see if you like the area.
Good Luck!
Joanne