Maëva's Mapa Mundi - Will you name a mountain after me?

Countries, Onstage, United States, Walt Disney World

Notes from a big country

18 February 2019

I think it is time to tell you more about my experience in the United States and with american culture with some examples of typical behaviors you can encounter, while working in Walt Disney World. Let’s start a new category. About time huh? Disclaimer:This article will be illustrated by ...

(Pop) Cultural travel, Manu-scripts

War, Politics and Superheroes

4 February 2019

This blog is gonna rise from the ashes. A lot of things changed in short amount of time. I moved back from the US, changed job… Now I am ready to start new plans more than ever! I was thinking about a new category for this blog for a long time now, and after thinking about a few names I ...

(Pop) Cultural travel, All that glitters, United States

Ace Comic Con Midwest 2018

24 October 2018

A week ago, I was flying to Chicago for my first real experience outside the Disney bubble, to attend the Ace Comic Con Midwest. Every time I write about it, I love a little bit more this rendez-vous, All that glitters, and illustrate it by pictures with our favourite celebrities on a blue ...

(Pop) Cultural travel, All that glitters, United Kingdom

The Highlanders 3 convention

22 August 2018

I try to be constant with my articles even if I am not really good at being regular with my translations (oops.) As I told you in the last article, I am flying to US very soon, so I may be able to catch up a bit and translate those articles. (I have to believe it.) Today, I take you on a ...

Expat life, United Kingdom

My professional life in my adoptive country :

15 July 2018

Today, I am coming back with another article, an idea from Hélène of A french in Mexico, which coincides with a category I wanted to add on the blog : #theteacherdiaries. So I could talk about my hard and good times, and disucss about the job of a teacher (or an assistant) and ...

Expat life, United Kingdom

Is it easy being vegan in the UK?

3 December 2017

Being vegeta*ian can be difficult. At least, it’s the cliché people keep linking with the movement: it’s hard, impossible, restrictive… It can be, depending where you live. Not to consume animal products, impossible in France, Spain or United Kingdom? Today, I won’t talk about ethics, but taste ...

Expat life, United Kingdom

British things I’ll never get used to

20 November 2017

Today we will discuss my installation in England and what surprised me at first, and what still does sometimes. From shops to fashion or recycling… A small overview of my impressions, an article that will surely get a second opus. Shops Shops were the first thing I found weird. Open hours are ...

United Kingdom

Dover’s White Cliffs

1 October 2017

I thought it would be better to get back on track with an article about my new home instead of falling immediately in the melancholia of the last articles about my journey in Spain. I can’t wait to show you more of Canterbury but meanwhile, here is Dover, another famous city of Kent. Around ...

Spain

Thrift shops in Granada

22 May 2017

It’s not a secret: I’m crazy in love with thrift shops! It’s my guilty pleasure. I love to nose about in that kind of shops, they remind me the nostalgia of the 90s TV shows: it’s actually ecological because you give a second life to clothes, economical because you can find good quality for a ...

Spain

10 things you should do (or not) to nicely start your Erasmus journey.

7 February 2017

If I wrote this article right after I arrived I would have called it “the worst days ever”. What? Is it a bit too melodramatic? Let me explain. Lot of sh*t happened even before I came to Spain, which made me want to go back home crying on Monday, January 30th, the day of this new start. Here ...