Chez Dilli

"It feels like I'm in prison". These were the words of an 11-year-old boy from the Somerset school where I teach. He had joined our...

Taking the Warwick University teaching survey was only supposed to take 10 minutes, but for me it took about twice as long. The task that...

As a new teacher, I always wondered why my voice wasn't being heard, and why so many students forgot or failed to understand what I had...

I came to Japan bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, thinking I had found a utopia in my new school. But I had a harsh reality-check ahead of me.

I have been out in Japan for over 3 months now and I’m still growing accustomed to the vastly different society that is my new home....

1. The “I’m here to find myself” woman. She’s just come from a meditation retreat and she’s staying in a Buddhist temple tomorrow. She’ll...

The airline wanted to charge us for taking more than 5kg, so we thought we'd beat the system....

We all know the phrase 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do', but with rising globalisation, is the phrase becoming outdated?

For a while, I've wanted to write about 'passing' a.k.a. being read by the wider population as heterosexual or heteronormative. In the...

Butch chic is quickly becoming a popular choice for people of any sexual orientation or gender. As a feminist who generally wears...

1. Egg ​​ Address: 12 Xiangyang North Road Nearest Metro: South Shaanxi Road Décor: 5 Menu creativity: 8 Value: 8 Staff friendliness: 9...

As a product of both state and private education, and having taught at a variety of institutions, I have often wondered which model has...

There are good walls and there are bad walls... I decided last month that I would leave China, which means I have just a few weeks to...

Spending Chinese New Year out here has been a wonderful experience. Jacques and I took a trip to Ningbo, a city a few hours south of...

They say it takes 6 months to properly settle in to a country and I don't disagree. There are a great many culture shocks in this city,...

I would like to dedicate this post to a piece of street art I once saw in Berlin at the East Side Gallery (formerly the Berlin Wall)...

My boyfriend, Jacques, and I decided to go away together for New Year as he was in Shanghai to visit over the Christmas period. Hangzhou...

It has been approximately 9 months since I signed up to work for Education First in Shanghai, China. It's odd to finally be here, having...

Bordeaux, as it's getting towards summer, is becoming evermore beautiful and hot. It's sunny with blue skies almost every day, even...

I could write pages and pages about the benefits of living in France, from the food to the language, to the culture to the weather, but...

Friday just gone, my housemates and I celebrated St Patrick's Day in a pub called 'the Frog and Rosbif'. And, naturally, we drank...

It’s February and I have officially moved into my shared house in Bordeaux. I was previously staying with a host from couchsurfer.com,...

As I've said before, Brussels has a distinctly European feel to it. But there's something about the networking events that truly reminds...

Brussels, along with Barcelona and Quebec City, is one of very few cities in the Western world that is officially bilingual. Belgium...

'Home' has always been something of an awkward concept for me. I have spent most of my life between my mother's and father's houses, both...

The internship is coming along. I may even have the opportunity to meet refugees and participate in meetings from next week onward....

It's been a while since I've written, which is in part due to my recent visit to the UK, but also because translation, which is what my...

I have just come back from three days in the famous city of Amsterdam. Tuesday the 15th of November was a national holiday in Belgium and...

This morning's result was a prediction I was unhappy to be right about. I usually like being right about things - doesn't everyone? From...

Having now lived here for nearly two weeks, I am fairly pleased that I have only been caught out in the rain once (so far). When I...