One of the benefits of being a real Working Man for the first time is having money to do as the locals do and go on holiday in the winter. A few people on the language assistants program went home for christmas, but my thinking was that it would just be a less enjoyable, still cold version of Quebec. Thankfully, another assistant who had grown to be a very close friend had the same idea, so we found some cheapish flights to Cuba and saved a bit of our pay and flew over.
I’ve only really included this to emphasise that even though you might think you’re working, and so studying would be a more relaxing option, this is not necessarily the case. And also as a bit of a counter to all my university colleagues who stayed in sunny parts of Europe, still out on terraces drinking wine in October (what), you get lots of free time and you make money to go to cool places if you want.
You won’t see one of these on the Cote D’azur 
You still get to go to a terrace 
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Language Assistant Quebec 