And, of course, I forgot to mention the most important thing about yesterday: Joe received his arreté. His, at least, is from the place we expected. Joe’s job will be somewhere in the académie of Dijon. No links to his exact placement because the letter is in transit from Kentucky to […]
So I haven’t called the embassy yet. I was waiting for my arreté to arrive in the mail so I could hold it in my hands while I talked to the embassy. This doesn’t seem entirely rational now that I’ve written it, but it all made sense before that.
The arreté arrived after the […]
So the story of how Joe and I applied to be teaching assistants in France is mostly long and tedious. It is also complicated, and currently, causing me some amount of anxiety. I will try to summarize.
We begin with a lot of hand-wringing about how I can go to France for a year […]