Journey As A Life, A - Drivhell

My Life As An Au-pair

Advantages: The rewards have been amazing
Disadvantages: It has been hard and demanding work among these foreigners

Definition ************ For those not educated in the French language, the term has the original meaning of ' being on equal terms' A strange term, then, for a phrase that has more often represented a state of being exploited by foreign well-offs who get you into their homes to skivvy for them, in return for pocket money. The Encarta dictionary is more helpful in our quest for a definition - " foreign student working as domestic helper: a young person from abroad living with a family to learn the language, and helping with childcare and domestic work in return for board and accommodation. " Encarta® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2 Commencement ********************* I began my life as an au-pair in the early part of 1969 ...

trevorbrock 23.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of My Life as an Au-pair

A Life Behind Bars

Advantages: fast paced
Disadvantages: repetitive

strung together for shock value. I've read a couple of biographies set inside prisons which were insightful and well written but this simply wasn't up to this standard and was a rather two dimensional account of Thompsons experiences. Reading this book is certainly a good deterrant to a life behind bars, either as a prisoner or an officer. Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer ISBN 0755316665 Published by Headline Review on the 24 July 2008 Available in paperback for £4.89 from Amazon.co.uk ...

wigglylittleworm 02.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer - Ronnie Thompson

A long, strange and wonderful journey that you'll never forget

Advantages: Incredibly well written, great characters, intelligent & deep but also lively & funny
Disadvantages: None except that there'll never be anything quite this good

had. But, was it just a nightmare? The next morning April resumes her usual everyday life as an Art student at the local University and working part-time in a local bar/café. She lives in a small town called Venice on the outskirts of a city called Newport. Venice is an artsy, Bohemian village made up of converted industrial buildings connected by a series of canals, and we find that it is about 200 years in the future from now, although student life and Bohemianism don?t seem to have changed much in all that time! April has many good friends and seems a bright, level-headed girl, so when strange things start happening to her, such as seeing a hologram art sculpture of a dragon momentarily turn into a real dragon, or a strange small hairy creature playing a flute suddenly jump out of the jukebox in the bar where she works, she begins ...

thereddragon 19.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Longest Journey (PC)