In less than 36 hours it will be February.  This greatly confuses me.  I mean I know that I've already stated that time (especially when related to an academic calendar) seems to go much more quickly after the New Year, but this was just ridiculous.

I made it to my medical visit!!  Glad that's over.  But what an adventure it was.  (Yes, you are ( Read more... )

... But I think I'm actually getting *a little* better.  I'm now at least starting to understand what I'm doing wrong, and how to fix it on some level.  Still, not great though.

I had one of those moments when I realized that my French had improved dramatically while chatting with two people at a New Year's party the lycée was throwing for the ( Read more... )

I've been thinking lately about how we define things.  This has mostly been coming from my increasingly frequent realizations of French words that do not have a single English analog, just as I'm finding there are English words that have no single French analog.  For example "to ride."  There is no verb in French for "to ride," you can still ( Read more... )