Parlez - vous Francais

I say this every time i make a new post but it is so true and you know of another way that I can say I have so much to tell you or so much has happened then feel free to comment. I suppose that I could just get right to what I want to say but would be too easy.In my last post I said that I was going to spend the week speaking nothing but French. Ya, three days in I caved and spoke English with my friends from the states, but after that I spoke nothing but French till Saturday. An all French week, speaking nothing but French is not as easy as you would think; at least it was not as easy as I thought!!!!  I believe that I have progressed a great deal with my French from when I had written that I would be spending the week speaking nothing but French even if in the end I ended up speaking a little English.This is basically the half way point for my trip. It is hard to believe that I will be leaving soon. I don’t want to think about that, so I am not going to. In all my classes and in my life here in France i can almost 100% understand what every one is saying. I have come a long way from when I first arrived in France. Living here in France really opened my eyes and showed me the difference between how much French I knew and how much French I thought that I knew. It turns out I didn’t know as much as I thought but it is all good. I came here to learn and I learning.Imagine learning a language for 11 years then choosing to go live in that country with which that language is spoken every day. It’s hard and you feel frustrated, more than if you were in that class for an hour or so, but then you realize that you are starting to understand what you are hearing and suddenly you are not so frustrated and you relax.I have been sooo untalkative. Ya I know me not talking very much. Mom, Dad, you might want to savour this moment when you read this. NATHALIE ROBSON IS NOT TALKING CONSTANTLY!!!!! Any way what was I saying......................? Oh yes, I have been as Joel said last night “observing”. I have been observing things and now I have to stop observing and stop worrying if what I am saying is correct and just live in the moment. Live in the present and not worry about the future. There is this quote that i have come to love and think that it applies to my situation very well it is: LEARN FROM YESTERDAY, LIVE FOR TODAY, HOPE FOR TOMORROW!! This has turned into one of my favourite if not my favourite quotes.   
 
So since my vacation I haven’t really done much, but this past Sunday I went to La Corderie Royal. This museum is where I learned all about rope and how rope is made. It was kind of fascinating actually.  There were ropes that were huge like I mean you could hide me inside them and not even know that I was hiding in the rope. Really neat, Anna (Lea’s sister) got to make a little rope and after the lady that was doing the demonstration let Anna keep the little piece of rope. Neat!!!!

 So that is really all that I have been up to. Not to exciting but hey that life right.

- Nathalie <3