Outside of
teaching, the TAs have a little bit of free time. I have Wednesdays off, and we
all have the weekends off. We also have four two-week breaks during the year
where we don’t teach and can relax and travel.
During the
first break, all three of us went to Prague and Budapest. During the winter break
my parents came and visited Deauville and I also visited some relatives in
England. This past break in February, I went to Dublin, then came back to
Deauville and met my family who visited again (my siblings couldn’t come the
first time because their passports weren’t valid for three months after the
intended date of departure), and then went skiing with another one of the TAs. Next
break, we’re all going to go to Greece. Two weeks (the length of each break) is
a good amount of time to go somewhere, and it’s pretty easy to get to the Paris
airport with trains and public transportation!
The Basilica in Lisieux
Giant's Causeway in Ireland
Cliffs of Moher in Ireland
My family & me in Rouen
Prague
During the
weekends, sometimes we’ll go to nearby cities like Le Havre, Honfleur, Bayeux, Lisieux,
and Caen. I like to take walks, read, color, and watch Netflix, too. A significant
amount of time is also spent trying to figure out plans for when we return to
the States—applying for jobs and grad school and making big decisions!
Thanks for
reading!
