Jetting Educated

There is a bottle of 45 percent rum underneath my bed. Here it has rested since December 31st, when half of the bottle had either been consumed by myself or awarded to friends. Its pretty disgusting, but I bought it, so I intend to drink it, because wasting alcohol is a sin. However, it now sits there, next to a bottle of J.P Chenet and the dregs of someone's Malibu, untouched, as I am sober for January whilst on a Ski season in France. This marks the  longest period of time that I've not had any alcohol since I was somewhere in 17, which was seven years ago. My initial thought was: its pretty bad that drinking has been such a frequent occurrence in my life. But then who else could say that they've not had any booze in a month unless they were actively avoiding it? (I guess the answer to that is people who don't drink that much!) Having said that, I know I did drink too much. I had not been the 'responsible biologist' that I advocate myself as being...

After some people have said that I don't really talk about what I'm doing for work on my travels, I am going to talk about my job in childcare in La Rosiere, and why I love it. In summary, it rocks. In exchange for looking after children and being as noisy as they are, I get all the food I want, accommodation and a lift pass for the St. Bernardo area so that I can ski in France as well as Italy.          Plus I get a few hundred pounds a month which I barely need to touch since I'm not drinking this month (shock horror). The pros aren't without the cons but overall I can't see how anyone could dislike it here. At the momet I'm sitting on a coach with a thermos of hot chocolate and I'm actually doing my second job, which is transfer repping. I take guests from resort to airport, pick up new ones and return. Its not always as smooth as that but its generally  a good way to spend transfer day (it certainly beats cleaning the play rooms or doing...

In training week we chanted: "La Ros, La Ros, La Ros is on Fire". We shouted and screamed it, but we didn't really know why. After being away for 5 weeks and staying in La Rosiere for 4 of them, I think I'm getting it... Living here is not like real life, it feels different. I'm not sure why but I'm trying to put my finger on it. My job is quite easy, that's probably a start, but I'll talk more about that later . Its possibly the extremely social lifestyle where you're at work all day with the same people you live with and so are constantly surrounded. Or that, alongside this, the unusual or chatworthy tales that occur on a daily basis; its hard to keep up sometimes. Indeed, not seeing someone for just a day can feel like quite a while, like you've probably missed out on something. Either way, its like being part of a living Soap Opera- things are always happening. Everyone gets in everyone else's business, people are very inquis...