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Claire's Brussels Blog: Language lessons
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. I teach French and Spanish in Brussels. I also teach everywhere else, thanks to the niftiness of Skype. Feel free to contact me at languagetuition at gmail dot com if you'd be interested in finding out more. You can sneak a look at my LinkedIn profile. To see if people have said nice things about me, too. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). You can find them here. For the UK, or here. Why I love the West Wing. (well, some of the reasons! I’m...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: All because of Aaron Sorkin: how the West Wing changed me
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Sunday, 24 June 2012. All because of Aaron Sorkin: how the West Wing changed me. The internet is aflutter with excitement about Aaron Sorkin’s new television show,. All kinds of questions are being asked: how will Sorkin write a Republican protagonist? Where’s Bradley Whitford? Air anywhere besides the US? Here’s what I’m asking: will it change lives? But that was before Aaron Sorkin convinced me otherwise. His mastery of the language ...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: Belgium and the West Wing
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Tuesday, 25 August 2009. Belgium and the West Wing. For a tiny country, Belgium gets mentioned a lot on the West Wing. So I thought, you know, in the interests of expat research, or something, I would start listing those mentions. Let Bartlet Be Bartlet (season 1? Donna and Josh are discussing the issue of "English as a National Language". Donna just wants to check: "Are we for it or against it? Like Dutch or something.". Series 3, H Con -...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: May 2012
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Friday, 25 May 2012. Applying for a US student visa at the Brussels Embassy: things they don't tell you. 1 You should try to get there as early as possible: the earlier you get there, the less you'll have to wait. 2 If you ask, you can take a wallet in with you, or a book, or a magazine, and there is somewhere you can leave the rest of your things safely. 3 If you don't take in your book or magazine, never fear: CNN is on. However, in the ...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: April 2012
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Sunday, 29 April 2012. The stationery-loving writer: planning my novel with Post Its. I've been pondering how best to plot my second novel for a while now. Not as in what the story should be but as in how, physically, to write down what should happen. Some authors use index cards. Some use computer programs like Scrivener. But I called it Primary Season. Not only are there the plot lines to bear in mind, there's also the timeline. Aaro...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: Aaron Sorkin does not have a woman problem.
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Tuesday, 3 July 2012. Aaron Sorkin does not have a woman problem. There I said it. Now let the onslaught of disgusted comments begin. I’ve never once felt insulted as a woman. Do those people exist in the real world? Do the women Aaron Sorkin writes about exist in the real world? I think so too. People are full of contradictions. Aren’t they? I do On a good day, I might even put myself in that category. Maybe the reason I get protectiv...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: University 2.0: Air Miles 2.0
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Sunday, 8 July 2012. University 2.0: Air Miles 2.0. When I started my first degree back in the mists of time, Sainsbury's had just launched their first reward card. I became a little obsessed with it. I realise I may be alone in thinking this, but that first card was better than its successor, the Nectar Card, and here's how: you could use it for air miles. And air miles were straight forward, tax-free, and generously allocated. Facebook g...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: Inévitable
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Fall in love, and it might change everything. Your plans, your future, you. Maybe even your politics. Kate has taught French to dozens of people, but she's never met anyone like Brad, a diplomat who teaches her to love America and follow her dreams. However, an ambiguous friendship in Brad's past casts a shadow over what could be between them. The most perceptive amongst you will notice that the author is not me. Or is she? For fans of the...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: Nice places to eat: Keops Palačinkarnica, Belgrade
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Friday, 22 June 2012. Nice places to eat: Keops Palačinkarnica, Belgrade. I've been saying for months now that I'm going to start blogging about places I've enjoyed eating. I've also had a conversation today about the things we say we should be doing but feel bad for not doing and instead wallowing on the sofa, thinking "I can't be bothered". So, here we go. Service: 9/10 - polite, efficient, multi-lingual but not over-eager. If you'd like...
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Claire's Brussels Blog: June 2012
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Musings, rantings, general ramblings, and insights into my world. Monday, 25 June 2012. The Newsroom: ten initial thoughts. 1 Bradley Whitford would have made a great Will McAvoy. The initial scene seemed to have been written for him. Sigh. And refreshing to hear! 3 Aaron Sorkin has a thing about Belgium. I've always suspected this, but to get a mention within five minutes of the pilot episode is quite something. Well done him. 6 But Aaron Sorkin is clearly a romantic. More than that, he believes rom...
