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things that make me happy right now: language study.
A week of my favorite things . . . We’ve begun week four and are closing in on our first month-long class. John and Alison and I will go on to start month two with Neetu, but it looks like David needs to find a different time slot (and therefore possibly a different teacher) due to his work schedule. We have class for an hour a day, five days a week, and I concentrate so hard for that hour that my brain hurts. Just when you think you’ve mastered reading/writing the alphabet and a couple basic phrases, there are endless lists of vocab and pronouns and declensions to make your…
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overwhelmed.
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a few mid-february thoughts.
Probably each of these thoughts is a blog post in itself, but I’ll just clump them all together in one eternal post-of-the-week. – Changes, changes for us (or, as Mom Gentino says, “You guys always have some sort of drama.”). But good changes. David and I started language study on Monday! You think it took us long enough to begin!? Well, this is really the perfect scenario. We went in with our friends to hire a tutor for five days a week. David and John meet with her from 11-12, and Alison and I from 12-1. We all love Neetu. She is fun, a fantastic teacher, and makes the hour fly…
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we’re moving!, part four.
“What about Anju?” I went to Colleen’s house this week, and together we sat down to tell Anju that the Gentino’s are “shifting.” Colleen speaks one of Anju’s languages, so she helped translate for me. At first Anju was silent, then . . . she started crying. I was shocked. Then I started crying. Then Colleen started crying. It was so awful. So all that to say, no, we can’t take Anju with us. She also works for our friends and wouldn’t be able to commute downtown and back in time for her other jobs. This is one of the very sad things about our move. She said it is…