Le Quatrieme et Le Cinqieme Jour, Mercredi 2 et Jeudi 3, Juillet 2008

A word

My time is MUCH busier now as I have classes throughout the day and not as much time to have fun with blog conversation.  Though even with the business, I am, as my dear uncle says, enjoying all the new experience.  In many ways, the challenge lies in being a student again.  I am living with three roommates, attending class with folks my own students' age, and learning an entirely new city in a completely new language.  Often I find myself getting flustered and frustrated with myself.  My mind swims with all the options of words to say and I often sound clumsy speaking.  French is such a beautiful, melodic, and fluid language, so when I miss the right word or pronunciation, EVERYONE knows it!  So, the time here is a humbling one.  And this, I believe has been the most essential thing.  I guess, as we age, we think we command a certain bit of knowledge and feel as though we know most everything that needs to be understood.  The last four days have revealed to me the great need for learning toujours, always.  In spirit and mind, I feel like a child and, though surrounded primarily by folk between the ages of 18-23, that is the manner in which I must live here in the unknown.

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Today, I have class from 8:30 a.m. until 7: 30 p.m with no breaks, I promise to post tomorrow.  Je desole et merci beaucoup.  A tout a l'heure!

A thought

"... Afin que les grandes personnes poissant comprendre ... "

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"... in order for important, grand people to understand ..."

Grand Person 

Reading through A Little Prince, Exupery expresses a sense of what is important to know.  In our lives, we perhaps share a sense of what should be known by tout le monde all the world.  Yet, much of what we discuss and know is that which one can read, express, write, and comprehend in words, words that are considered, spoken, written, or heard.  Though there is another manner in and through which we people come to know.  Pulling away the many layers of history, study, and expertise, the many years of grand appearance known, we all remain human beings who, in a different place and speaking in a mysterious and beautiful tongue, are grandly unknowing and beginning toujours always. 

A hope

Thank for your continued grace and prayers.  A couple of unbloggable kinks are slowly being worked out.  I give thanks for your precious intercessions. 

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Have patience with me please as I try and figure out how to post pictures on the blog. I posted one and than had problems getting the rest to post. So, prayerfully, pictures are on their way.