My name is Jason Constam and I'm a Computer Engineer working for Schlumberger. I recently found out that I was being transferred to Paris, France. Coming along for the adventure is my fiancée Jessica.
Currently we live in Edmonton Alberta Canada.
We've started this blog and the plan is that over the next few months it will chronicle the highs and lows of moving half way around the world. Once we're in Paris, things will shift a bit and we'll be using it to keep track of all of the things we see and the places we go. Hopefully this will range from "look at this cool pastry I got down the street from our apartment" to "check out this awesome bar we found in southern Austria in a cave that used to be a monastery".
To answer the two most popular questions we get asked when we tell people we are moving:
- Yes we are planning to have a spare bedroom and yes you can come visit if you give us some notice.
- No we will not be on House Hunters International.
- My tentative start date in France is August 18.
- No we don't speak French. I did take French through most of primary and secondary school, but I really don't use it much. We've been using Duolingo off and on over the last few months and we're hoping it will be a good prep for the actual French lessons my company will provide us when we get there.
- The office where I'll be working is actually not in Paris but in the commune (suburb) of Clamart which is just south-west of Paris but still within the suburban area known as Ile-de-France. We will likely be living somewhere in the area between Clamart and Paris.
- Here is a quick comparison between Edmonton and Paris from Wolfram-Alpha.
Posting will be rather erratic but hopefully that will keep the content interesting...
