A few years later, when I decided to come here to study, it didn't feel to me like I was going somewhere foreign at all. It feels like I've always had a life in France and Ireland.

After school, I did a four-year masters' degree in Irish literature so I suppose Ireland was always on my mind. The first three years of the course were in France and the last one was in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). I studied there in 2003 and 2004. I really enjoyed it and loved being back here because I was a bit older and had more freedom. I also met my boyfriend Eoghan two months before I went back to Paris to hand in my thesis.

I always wanted to teach, so I began a teacher training course in France. I really, really didn't like it though. It was very structured and is a competitive exam. In France, if you get the exams, you have to work for the French government for five years.

I really didn't like the sound of that though and wanted to come back to Ireland. I kind of ran away from it but it was definitely the right thing for me to do.

Also, I didn't really like Paris. I love visiting but it's too big and busy for me. I had kept in touch with Eoghan but he wasn't the reason I came back . . . it was always in my longterm plans.

I came back and did the Tefl teaching course and got a job straight away in the Brook College in Bray, which teaches English to Spanish students.

I've been working there for two years now and I love it. Some of the kids even think I'm Irish, mainly because I pretend sometimes.

I did another course last year in teaching French as a foreign language. It was over the internet with La Sorbonne university and I went back to do the exams in Paris.

It's basically the same as Tefl but I much prefer to teach English. It's just more fun for me.

The main thing I like about Ireland is how relaxed it is. French people are much more worried about their pensions and social welfare and they get stressed out a lot. I just don't feel those same stresses from people here.

Since I first started learning English as a child, I always liked the idea of being able to speak another language perfectly. My goal has been to pass as an Irish person . . . and I think I can now.

I even have a bit of an Irish accent.

I do miss French food a little bit but not that much because you can almost get all the cheeses in Ireland now. Also, Eoghan is a great cook and he used to live in France so we have a lot of the same tastes. The shopping is better here than in France too. Also, I go home about once a month so I don't really get a chance to miss anything.

My family are very important to me. My dad Roland and my step-mum Pascale live in Versailles now. My step-brother Mathieu lives a couple of hours from them but they still see more of me, which makes me feel like a good daughter. They come over to visit me too about twice a year. I think eventually I would love to train in Montessori teaching here. It's very expensive to do the course though so I've started saving.

I've always been very comfortable with the way of life here and enjoy the pub culture and all of that, which is quite different to France. I don't even mind the weather that much, unlike most Irish people.

At least if it rains here in the morning it might clear up. In Burgundy, if it rains in the morning it rains all day. I don't ever ask myself the question will I settle in Ireland or France or somewhere else. I would settle here permanently but if there was a problem with my family I would go straight back.

I'm so comfortable here that I don't think of France as home and Ireland as foreign. I just have two homes. I'm not a French person in Ireland or an Irish person in France.