{"id":1663,"date":"2008-07-15T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2008-07-15T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:00:05","slug":"nous-allons-en-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/nous-allons-en-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Nous allons en France!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/rhone-alpes-map.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"20\" hspace=\"20\"\/>So after much speculation, discussions, and email exchanges with French bureaucrats, Becky and I are be going to be English <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assistantsinfrance.com\/forums\/index.php\">Teaching Assistants in France<\/a>, a program arranged through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchculture.org\/spip.php?article396\">French government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean? We&#8217;ll be working 12 hours a week for 28 weeks (October through April) to teach French high schoolers our native tongue, and <i>am\u00e9liora<\/i> our French in the process. Did I mention that this includes all the baguettes and croissants we can eat &#8212; oh, and SEVEN WEEKS PAID VACATION! <\/p>\n<p>The rest of the time I will be working on my book, freelancing (as per usual) and possibly tutoring English.<\/p>\n<p>We will either be in Lyon or the nearby (40 miles SW) university town of St. Etienne &#8212; to be determined hopefully later this week. <\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s going to come visit us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after much speculation, discussions, and email exchanges with French bureaucrats, Becky and I are be going to be English Teaching Assistants in France, a program arranged through the French government. What does that mean? We&#8217;ll be working 12 hours a week for 28 weeks (October through April) to teach French high schoolers our native tongue, and am\u00e9liora our French in the process. Did I mention that this includes all the baguettes and croissants we can eat &#8212; oh, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-france","category-personal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-qP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}