Halley
is talking about French
speakers and beaches and stuff. It brought back memories of my
high school French class days. My favorite year was when had Ms. Szabo
and focused on conversational French. Ms. Szabo collected grenouilles
just like my older daughter used to do. Her favorite was a grenoui in
the bottom of her coffee cup. My classmate Brad Kobitter and I would
make every effort that year to speak exclusively in French whenever we
were together. We would speak French during lunch, study hall,
whenever we saw each other walking down the halls. We didn’t really
know enough French to be able to do it correctly so we had a fair
amount of Franglais thrown in with our French. I can hardly remember
any of my French, high school was a long time ago for me. I still
remember one of my favorite nonsense phrases though, “Le cochon tombe
sur la plage.”