The day I thought my boss was getting fired
Posted in communication, living in france on Jul 28th, 2011
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Monochronic or polychronic, that’s the difference… Which are you?
Posted in communication, living in france on Nov 13th, 2008
No they are not diseases. They are not forms of art. They are ways of time orientation. They determine the way you view and interact with the world. They are different ways to manage time. Let me explain to you how this influences me and how I needed to adapt.
Our transition is like… jogging
Posted in living in france, reflection on Oct 13th, 2008
Recently nothing really surprising or funny has happened over here. However I have started to pickup something new over here: jogging. Let me tell you what I’ve learned from jogging as a way to look back on the first 5 months here.
Buying a car in France
Posted in bureaucracy, driving, living in france on Aug 15th, 2008
We bought a car in France in July. It’s a peugeot 307. We found it through www.lacentrale.fr. We had to buy a car to go to the Netherlands the first weekend of July. So we were in a hurry and we didn’t have a car to go see other cars. So we were restricted to [...]