Sunday, January 16, 2011

I am doing tres bien

I'd heard that it would happen, but I hadn't really believed that I would start to forget my English. But I am! Nothing drastic. I'm going to still be able to have a conversation in English at the end of my stay here. But I forget random words - I'll learn a new word in French and think of the translation, just to realize that, while I know I know it, I can't seem to think of it. Or I'll be talking in English and French words will slip out in an American accent. For example, I was telling my parents how I slipped on the ice in town, but the word for ice, in French is 'glace'. I didn't even notice until my parents pointed out that I really probably hadn't been walking on glass...