Final Post Coming Up!

Today, after a break as I focused on language learning with my morning coffee, I came back and completed the avant finale curso (code switching). 

I feel a sense of satisfaction. It seems a timely point in my life of have completed this course- the week before leaving for Senegal. 

This week, and the following 3 weeks, I plan to focus on French and maybe Wolof. I am surprised at how good it has been to revisit French. I have been following some excellent podcasts and blogs that are giving me non-textbook, real life expressions and tips on how to sound more French. Plus, I have been listening to Radio Canada only for about 2 months and I am beginning to feel the French of Quebec once more.   

While at LangFest in Montreal, I heard a very interesting talk on bilingualism and bringing up children in bilingual or multilingual environments. I purchased Agathe Tupula Kabola's book,  Le bilinguisme, un atout dans son jeu. and am reading it with 'impressement' before passing it on to Fatu and Yacine. I hope they will find it pertinent for their kindergarten schools, Sukabe. 

Today the drawing course, that permitted me to shift into the 'zone', was on using geometrical shapes and the center of gravity to draw figures.