city guides

How to Spend a Long Weekend in Marrakech

How to Spend a Long Weekend in Marrakech

Before moving to France, I don’t know if I would’ve had Morocco so high on my bucket list. But after living in Marseille for the past couple of years, I’ve quickly learned that this north African country is a very…

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How to Plan a TAPIF America-Themed Lesson

How to Plan a TAPIF America-Themed Lesson

Following college graduation, I took the leap of faith to move abroad and spend a year teaching English with the TAPIF program. It was originally supposed to be a gap year, but I ended up teaching for two years as…

On Moving Abroad in a Pandemic

On Moving Abroad in a Pandemic

Lately, life has been a dark room with hundreds of red lasers creating a chaotic web of traps. You know, the ones in spy movies where one wrong move, one slip or one shake makes the alarm start blaring. Game…