The birds flewy.

Language acqusition does some interesting things to the mind. For one, our english skills, such as they were, are going down the drain. I have had trouble thinking of words and spelling them. Just the other day Angie looked at the windows and saw some birds flying by and said, "Look the birds flewy by". It was hilarious at the time. Angie had a difficult experience. On the walk to pick the kids of from school, she caught up to a group of mentally challeged kids, mostly teenagers. She passed them by but one kept pace and walked beside her. The young girls started talking to Angie. Angie had trouble catching all that she was saying, ,but could get the idea that she wanted either Angie to go to her house and She wanted to come to our house. Angis just kept saying, "I don't know". Suddenly the young girl broke out crying and saying, "She won't come to my house!." Like really loud crying. Angie felt real bad, but what are you going it do? Things are winding down at school. We have finals next Tuesday. We learned some things very difficult today. I have learned Greek and Hebrew, but never had to speak them. It makes a big difference when you speak. We were learning the difference between passe composé (past completed action) and imparifait (past action), similar to the difference between "I have gone to the store" and "I went to the store." They use them at different times than we do and you get a better sense of meaning from it. Another difficult thing has been that certain verbs only are used with certain pronouns. For example you would only say "Telephone at or to someone" (téléphone à). It is hard especially when it is different then what you would normally use in English. It is just a matter of memory. We had the chance to meet with a couple of prospective students that might come to the language school. A couple from Riverdale CA and a couple from Houston TX. We had the Texas couple over for lunch. It was interesting because when we visited the school there was a couple of students from Galveston who had us over and who had four children like we did. The couple that we had for lunch also had four kids and were from Texas. We had a good visit and hopefully were a blessing to them, like so many have been to us. Well thanks for the thoughts and prayers. God bless JASON