Experiments in Living
Posted in Personal Growth, Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2008
The college years - part 2
After my French adventure, I returned to Bangor University to complete the final year of my degree. The thing was, it wasn’t the same. Time doesn’t stand still. Just because I was away having this massive experience certainly did not mean that everything was the same when I returned. For [...]
Posted in Personal Growth, Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2008
A year in France
As I mentioned in Part Two, a large chunk of my motivation for following a languages degree was the opportunity to live and work abroad. I left for Annecy, a beautiful town in the French Alps in the autumn of 1998, to take up a post as an assistant teacher of English [...]
Posted in Personal Growth, Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008
This is part of a series, read The Backstory Part 1 here.
The college years - part one
As with many middle class bright young things, I found my way to University. My alma mater is Bangor University, in North Wales. In 1996, I embarked on a degree in French Language for two completely shallow reasons, firstly, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2008
A few weeks ago I went crazy and bought my first vegan cookbook - Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Of all the vegan cookbooks, this one seemed to have a happy band of followers, recipes for all occasions and had the word “cheap” mentioned somewhere on the cover.
So far I have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
The Early Years
Since I write a lot about experiences and lessons learned in life, I thought I would share some of the context of who I am, and where I’m coming from, in an attempt to answer the questions of who I am and how I got started writing this blog on personal development. Here [...]
