This is a message of my online friend, a teacher from Europe:

Hello everybody, I’m here to ask about the great continent of Europe. I’m currently employed as an English teacher in Spain but after one of colleagues leaving Spain to go work in an escuela de ingles en Nueva York and then another to teach French in écoles de langues Canada, I am wanting to travel too – their postcards are making me jealous! I feel there is so much to see in this continent of ours – such diverse countries only a cheap flight, drive or train ride away from one another. So what is it to be? There are so many languages to learn, I’d love to studier utomlands. I’m off to Africa as a volunteer in Benin this summer so maybe France. French is the official language of this West African country and so it would certainly help me make friends when I get there! Any suggestions where to go – I’ve heard Parisian French is very clear…