What was your childhood home like? Describe it and its surroundings.

I grew up in a charming village house, hidden from view by a beautiful tree-lined garden. It was all in stone, adorned with flowers. The bedrooms were upstairs and overlooked the lavender fields; in the distance we could see a river where, children, we spent every free moment we had. The house being in the heart of the village, there was a church close to our house, and every morning it was its bells that woke us up.

Tell an embarrassing story that you (or a friend of yours) went through.

At the time, I was dating the man I was madly in love with. We had been together for quite a while when he finally decided to introduce me to his family. These parents invited us to have dinner with them. They were real bourges, so I was very afraid it would go wrong. And I was right to worry. As soon as I got home, I felt I was not welcome. Her mother greeted me with coldness! And her sister barely spoke to me. They were the type of women who talk behind their backs as soon as you leave the room. But these didn't even bother to pretend they were happy to meet me! I didn't know what to do with myself. Fortunately, it was a big party: the wine was flowing freely, and I enjoyed it so much that I was stunned long before we sat down to dinner. It was serious. Besides, I hadn't eaten all day, and when we were about to serve the main course, I fell in love! Shame! Obviously my boyfriend dumped me the next day.

What do you like most about your job? What are the issues? Have your opinions on your profession changed during your career?

I have been working as a French as a Foreign Language (FLE) teacher for over a decade now, and unlike some of my colleagues who feel bored after teaching for a while, I like my job better and better than I consider one of the most important in the world today. Although poorly paid, teaching is demanding, exciting and rewarding all at the same time. At the beginning of my career, I thought that the foreign language was only a communication tool. However, as I went along, I realized that what we were doing in the classroom was much more important than I thought because, in addition to teaching young people to communicate with people from another country , we also taught them to open up to other cultures as well as to know their own better. Knowing the other is essential to know yourself. The same goes for language and culture: we understand our own better by comparing them to others. So language lessons are vitally important, especially in a heterogeneous society such as ours.