With our departure date only a month and four days away, it’s time to go to Chicago to get (another) long-stay visa that will allow me to live and work in France for a year. During the first year, I plan to apply for French citizenship. This time last year I went to Chicago for […]
The first time we moved to the South of France was about fifteen years ago. François and I had just gotten married, and I had a BA in French and was about halfway through an MA in French, so I thought I would be fine. And now, everyone who has lived through a similar experience […]
If you’ve even started to read this post, I’ll assume you’re willing to maybe give me a little advice. As the title suggests, it’s mostly for people who have had the experience of moving abroad. However, I would sure like to know how you all feel about this. Last summer (when we […]
As we started to tell friends and family that we are moving to France this summer (granted, it’s been a year and a half in the making), one of the very first questions people ask is: “Why?” This question is asked in various tones. “Why would you ever want to leave the US?” “Why would […]
As many readers will know from my previous posts, I’m a high school French teacher. I’ve been doing this for fifteen years, and teaching is my calling. I love it. I work at an awesome high school where all of the students are amazingly motivated and the parents are supportive, my colleagues are my friends. […]
After seven months of pursuing our dream of selling our house then moving to France, today it has officially happened. We closed on the sale of our house in St. Louis! Neither of us was quite ready to believe it until all of the closing papers had been signed. Until the last minute, we were […]
It’s kind of hard to believe that this is really going to happen for us. All of last year we were getting our house on the market, thinking all the while that we would be moving to France during the summer (after the successful sale of our home, of course!). By now we would have […]
I haven’t written on this blog since the month of May. 4 months ago. I think I just spent so much of last year getting ready for the move to France that wasn’t. We spent almost a whole year getting the house ready for the market, packing, taking care of administrative details, and just gearing […]
Contract #4, Let’s do this already! My last post started out, “Moving to France in 24 days, and long-stay visa”. That was on May 14, and two contracts ago. The funny thing is that there are a lot of people interested in our house, but for reasons way out of our control (nothing to do […]
Moving to France in 24 days & Visa long séjour The best news is that over the weekend, we received an offer on our house and signed a contract. Now we’re just waiting for the building inspector to come through, and if there aren’t any major problems with our house (God, I hope not!), […]
