I've been printed! In Tabacs throughout France, people can now pick up a hot copy of my little stagaire experience in a magazine. Written by the beautiful and talented Kari Masson, the article is in this month's issue of "English Now." The left page is my story in English, and the right side is en francais. This helps people living in France to work on their language skills. Since most of you reading this will not be swinging by the Tabac to pick up a magazine, newspaper, or stamps (yep, this is where you buy stamps-the line at the PO is crazy long), you can view it here on Kari's blogspot. Pretty neat, huh? Now I'm famous and such.

I miss it there sometimes. It's hard when Atlanta is such a great city, but it happens. Like tonight, when my great roommate Aisha called me. What a great perk for my day! That also makes twice today I've gotten to speak French. When was the first time? Well, I went to take some memory book pictures of my mom's class today, and one of her 3-year-old's family is from Ghana. The little boy was absolutely adorable and wouldn't let go of me all day. He was soft-spoken as it was, and I didn't know if he knew any French, so I didn't push him further than getting him to paint a water color with me. Though, when his mom picked him, she immediately asked my mom if I was her daughter. They all knew I had been living in France, and had kept up a little through some stories. Atem, the little guy, wanted me to put him in the car. His mom turned around, smiled, and said, "Salut! Ca va?"

I was surprised at first, but she was very nice and we chatted. It felt like normal for a little while, and I did accidently turn towards my mom to ask her something in French instead of English-oops! I still get nervous to talk to the natives, though. That is the one nice thing about my roommates-though they were European and spoke better French than me, it was a second language for all of us. Actually, it was a third language for all of them--when we didn't know how to say something in French we reverted to English. Why did language get taken out of elementary schools again?