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Miss France: Franco-American like us!
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 Chloé Mortaud, the night of her coronation
Not only that but my conversation with Mortaud mère – along with several other cosmic signs and indicators – convinced me to go back to teaching English after a hiatus of, oh, about 17 years.
This woman, so much better educated than myself, spent several years commuting four hours a day so she could keep a job as an English teacher and raise her children in the French provinces. And, as she told me, she never really wanted to be an English teacher either.
But this is what American expats who want to live in France and don't have specific manual skills like carpentry or brain surgery do and so – as I interpreted her words – you might as well be cheerful about it. And that's when I told myself: "Buck up, you big baby."
And that, on top of earning an actual French tax-paying paycheck, is the summation of my ambition for this year.
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