jj needs to work on speaking french. she hears french all day at school, so she understands pretty well. but kids are not asked to speak much in class. her friends are english speakers so that’s all they speak to each other. the french kids in her grade have mostly been learning english since kindergarten and all speak it quite fluently. their english is so much better than her french that whenever she has contact with them, they go to english. we are more than halfway through the school year, so it’s time to get proactive. i called a recommended french tutor, a lady who was formerly a full time teacher. when i told her that jj was 14, she told me that she normally taught younger children, and wanted to meet her first to evaluate her level, to decide if she could help or not. i actually think she wanted to see if jj was one of those evil teenagers, before she committed. so today, the teacher came over. she seemed nice enough, though a bit nervous. she talked very fast, but we mostly understood her. she has accepted jj as a student and told me she thought jj was very nice.
i also finished updating and translating my artist profile and brought it in to “le veraison”, the restaurant with my paintings. we put it into the back of the wine list.
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