Happy Valentines Day! We celebrated today by going to our favourite place – Cocobun – and happily ate honey buns, drank coffee and read across the table from each other…without having to talk. That’s love! We have realized that the last time we were able to spend so much time together (aside from holidays) was during our dating days in Bible college. Here, we are together ALL the time. Through this, however, we have learned that...we still love each other. We still can make each other laugh and we enjoy each other's company. We are best friends. When one is down, the other can be up. Where Tom is stronger in speaking, I am stronger in comprehension. Every week or two, Tom and I still have a ‘We live in Montréal?!’ moment, even though we have now officially passed the halfway mark. Through all of our experiences here, we know that when we return home we will not be the same as when we left.
We have made some exciting connections with classmates this new semester. One classmate asked me to help her with an interview that she was going to be having in English, and another just recently asked if Tom and I could help her and her husband with their English through conversation. Meanwhile, our speaking and French comprehension continues to improve. Just recently I was sitting in our ‘Français par Projet’ class (How to do research in French) and while the teacher was speaking it donned on me, 'I actually understand what she is saying!' No, she wasn't speaking English. In the same class, our major assignment is a group research project - group work apparently being a big part of the culture in the working world. We have to do a half-hour presentation in front of REAL people who are not just students. With French being the only common language of our group of five, it is a challenge, but yet another way we get to connect with our classmates. Time is ticking so we are pushing hard to learn as much as we can.
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