Free Time for TAs

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!