It was October 2021, one year and three months since I moved to Europe, and after much desperate job searching and taking on some short-term roles that led to nowhere, I finally landed a much-coveted CDI position in Paris. CDI, the most sought-after type of contract, stands for contrat à
When I was 4, my father had decided he wanted to try living in France, preferably close to Paris, and asked his company for a transfer, resulting in us relocating to Chartres. It was just in time for me to start French kindergarten at age 5. I immediately fell profoundly
I was sitting in seat 24K on an Airbus A380 destined for Europe and I was angry at myself because I was crying. The plane itself was nearly empty and I was one of the only passengers; out of some 509 seats on the airplane, maybe only 30 were occupied,