Tag: English

I haven’t written for this site in just over a month. It has been difficult to settle, to deal with everything. Now, I feel some stability, some feeling that I can handle things. Still, I don’t feel homesick. I like life in France. Never regretted my move once. I started French lessons a week ago.… Continue reading Thoughts on ‘La Ville de Parfum Fumé’

I’ve been so tired that I have not been able to think or write. I arrived here on the 1st September, full of energy. So much that I’ve already made many mistakes. It was going to happen. Le Arc de Triomphe & La Grande Arche go unnoticed, as does the architecture, everything that I was… Continue reading A Week In

I haven’t received an invite to BBC Radio 4s Desert Island Discs, but I have given a lot of thought to my choices. I’m thinking now, that when it comes to music, I would be satisfied with just one song for my time stranded on a desert island. I’ve pretty much listened to just one… Continue reading Nathi’s Desert Island

Everything is confirmed now, I hope. It has been a difficult three months, balancing all the paperwork for this alongside my dissertation. It is a week until the penultimate day when I face one of the scariest decisions I’ve made in my life. A new life from a small suitcase. I thought leaving Bateson (my… Continue reading A Week Left

I remember a noisy internet of flashy gifs, an overload of text and images. An age where a YouTube vlog about someone’s stolen basket of soil received 100k views. There is something pure about that. Where the boring (mundane) or even low-budget could find an audience. I’m not being nostalgic for nostalgia’s sake. Nor do… Continue reading Hello world!