J'ai fini mes cours de francais

If you remember... one of my first weeks here I was home alone when someone rang the doorbell. It was quite the experience to mix French, English and acting to figure out what he needed. I was hopeful that I wouldn't have such a situation again... and I was right.

I must say that in the rare times I am home alone I get a lot of people at the door for someone who isn’t expecting anyone.

When the doorbell rang yesterday I gushed with excitement that it might be the mailman with the package from Mom. I sung the door open to realize it was a deliveryman with quite a number of packages, none of which were from Mom. He began waving around his computer and some forms, speaking a million miles a minute. And as my eyes began to glaze over and my smile disappeared he spoke slower. He needed to deliver two packages, which were too big to fit in the people’s boxes not to mention he didn’t know which apartment number they lived in. He had to leave them with someone and with my luck he chose the one apartment where the person home didn’t speak French. Though I shouldn’t say that entirely because I understand his problem once he slowed down and I took the packages like a trooper.

So after seven weeks of French classes I suppose I do have something to show for it. I may not be fluent or confident in the elementary French that I do know but I definitely am walking away better than I began. Last Friday didn’t mark the end of my adventures learning French but only the beginning. I’m pleased with the remarks my teachers gave me, though I must admit that I put the certificates away quickly so they couldn’t take back what they had written. You may be wondering what it is, exactly, I have learned in the last seven weeks but it’s difficult to convey that to you in a blog written in English. I suppose you’ll just have to trust me when I say… Je ne pensais pas pouvoir apprendre le français. Mais maintenant Je connaîs Je vais apprendre plus dans le temps. La langue française est très difficile mais ma motivation est plus grande.