Last month I shared the reasons why I decided to live France. I started in Normandy in the small city of Rouen where I spent a month-long experience to be fluent in French. It’s a beautiful medieval city with old half-timber houses and gothic architecture that takes you back hundreds of years in time but weather in October gets chilly in the […]
Cuba’s Revolution in Food
In Cuba, an organic food movement is growing. During “the Special Period” in the 1990s, the country was on the brink of starvation. Lack of imports, farming tools like pesticides, and food shortages meant ordinary Cubans had to change the way they live, and eat Cuban food. People started growing their own crops in backyards and […]
Benito and Smoking Cuban Cigars
Benito could very well be famous. He is the man behind Cohiba, Habana, Cubana. All names of the finest, prestigious Cuban cigars you can find. They happen to be the most sought-after exports in the world. Cuba has the second largest area of tobacco plantations worldwide and Benito is tasked with keeping this globally-praised tradition well intact. We took […]
Havana: A City Frozen in Time
Outside the manufactured, typical tourist resorts, there is nothing typical about Cuba. Havana is real and authentic. Pre-Cold War military squares, 16th century colonial palaces, 1950s American cars, and ration shops paint Havana a beautiful city frozen in time. My photos capture little in the way of modernity but behind the lens Dan and I learned […]
Things We Could Learn from the French
During my time living and studying in France I got to learn a side of French life that I wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to if I were merely passing through. It made me reflect on our own practises at home and the norms I’m used to living in North America. Here are a few things I picked up about living […]
Why I Moved to France
Last month was a major accomplishment for me. I was able to complete two of my personal goals to move abroad for a little while and become fluent in French. There is something very romantic and charming about the French language that I have always been drawn to. I studied French from the time I was in Grade 4 until […]