Place des Vosges, Paris IVème
Des
sites Internet francophones
Radio France Internationale
Radio Caraïbe
Internationale
Libération (Journal français de gauche)
Le Monde (Journal
français intellectuel)
À la page (Pour
acheter des livres, des vidéos et des CDs bon marché)
Dictionnaire
français en ligne
Rue Cases-Nègres
(site internet préparé par Emmanuelle Vanborre)
Des moteurs de recherche français:
nomade.fr
yahoo.fr
google.fr
Professional organizations for teachers of French:
American Associationof
Teachers of French
Globetrotter Dogma: Rules of the Road (by Bruce
Northam )
Cannon 1. Have your mid-life crisis now! Don't postpone
travel happiness indefinitely. A life of work can be dreadful.
Escape while you can. Listen to your heart and ignore your boss
grimacing about your forthcoming sabbatical.
Cannon 2. Seize the exhilaration of roaming. Let
yourself in on the following secret. Life is short so have fun
while you can. Start by overcoming the following common but
irrational emotions. 1) Fear of losing ground on the employment
timeline; 2) Hesitancy about blazing your own expedition trail; 3)
Inability to get some distance from your work-a-day life in order to
recognize what you do and do not value; 4) Reluctance to ease back on
the lawn mower throttle;
5) Blind allegiance to the American lifestyles portrayed by fabric
softener commercials.
Cannon 3: The good old days are now. "It" is not
ruined. Ignore travel snobbery. Bali, Thailand and other
supposedly overrun paradises are still great places to visit, even
though it may have been more real 15 years ago. Your first time is
your first time, virgin turf simply is. The moment you commit to a
trip, there begins the search for adventure.
Cannon 4: Unsettling things may happen. Move on. "Fall
down seven times, get up eight." --Buddhist quote. Life ain't
fair? Well, the fair comes to town once a year and it's not
reality. Bumming out over a flight delay in the Philippines, my
brother had a change of heart by chancing upon an impoverished
seven-year-old boy who was joyously flying a kite that he constructed by
typing a long string to a billowing plastic trash bag.