Was it really a year ago that I was boarding a plane to France, jumping out of an airplane, signing a lease to a 15th century apartment, and starting my post as an English language assistant with TAPIF? And to think that I almost let the date pass by without even a thought. Then I saw Rosie’s adorable post this week, and the numbers started adding up (as the happy tears started falling) – a whole year has passed!
What a slack-jawed and silly person I was, hugely unprepared and thoroughly contented. My mom’s particularly nuanced emotion, I’ve yet to decipher.
But no one is more confused about how I made it through the year as I am. There are still many stories to tell, and I’m ready to tell them! A bientôt à tous mes lecteurnauts! Exceptionnellement fermé, no more!
la nomade moderne 
Happy anniversary. 🙂
That is a very interesting photo of two people with hard-to-decipher expressions. Perhaps you look a little like a “stunned mullet” and your mother is thinking, “why is my daughter looking like a stunned mullet?”
You are non-exceptionnellement ouverte? I don’t even want to guess what that could mean but I’m excited! Haha
Hahaha la vâche! Ce que je veux dire c’est que I’m gonna start blogging again! Bisous bisous…