Well, sink or swim, I am now taking a French immersion course in Trois Pistoles, Quebec. I drove as far as Trois Rivieres last night (in between Montreal and Quebec) and felt pretty proud of myself for being able to have conversations with the hotel people, gas station people, restaurant people and just ordinary folks.
Today, that confidence has been zapped. Drove the final four hours to get here and I am feeling totally out of my league and my comfort zone. Guess it's always good to challenge yourself. I will definitely be doing that this week.
On a positive note, I will be going whale watching on my birthday!
On a not so positive note, Quebec is part of Canada and I am proud to say that it is and hope that it will remain so. But, I felt somewhat compelled to take my Canada flag off of my car before I crossed the Quebec border. I'm sure the larger cities would be fine, but all I would need is some idiot to take exception to it, and scratch the vehicle or worse. It's a sad comment about not feeling comfortable flying the Canadian flag in my own country.
I have been keeping an eye out for Canadian flags here and I have only seen one. But then I have only seen one Quebecois flag too, and both were on a government building.
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Hello Kathy ...
I lived in Aylmer Quebec for 2 years while i worked in Ottawa. I really liked it there... Aylmer is 33 percent english and the people there are very tolerant of all languages. I allways wanted to learn french ...and i did pick up much of the langueage when i was there. I have to say that i understood more then i could speak ...however like they say if you dont use it u lose it ...i hope to learn how to speak i in full someday ...
The French course was great. Very intensive, and you are right, if you don't use it, you lose it.
That's my struggle now---to find someone to practice with!
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