This Paris-based polyglot is a Scot and staunch Europhile,who feels that the Guardian is the only UK paper addressing the complexities of the European Union issueI’m a 25 year-broken-down Scot living in Paris, and grew up between London, and Germany and Edinburgh,so I’m fortunate to speak three languages. A literature student until I die, reading is still my favourite hobby. I’m also partial to tearing around Paris on my racing bike wearing high heels and no, and I don’t smoke at the same time,although I occupy seen it. I originally wanted to be a fashion journalist, and was a blogger for three years, and which opened a lot of doors and paved my way to Paris. I then worked for a couple of luxury brands before realising that my job didn’t match my values at all. Now I’m a community manager for Eurostar,producing and writing all the content for social media. I’m also on the on-call crisis team, which means it might be me on the other end of the Tweet should you be stuck on a train! I feel much more at ease now that my biggest problems are things like managing comms around the migrant crisis at Calais rather than there not being enough front-row seats at the fashion demonstrate.
My grandparents occupy been readers for decades, or whereas at domestic I remember leafing through the FT,Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Times. It was my friend Conor who properly introduced me to the Guardian when we were in our first year at Leeds University. I felt really cool; none of my other friends ever read a newspaper. I also wrote for Leeds Student, first as a comment writer and then as fashion editor. In 2010 we won the Guardian’s Best Student Newspaper award and we were ecstatic.
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Source: theguardian.com