>In case anyone's interested, I won't be doing much here for the next 6 weeks. Gary and I are leaving on Friday to spend more than a month in France! We're taking a month-long class at a French language school in Annecy! Hopefully by the end of June, I'll be speaking French a lot better. I have my doubts, but we'll see. It's really just an excuse to spend almost 6 weeks in France. <g>

You've been taking a lot of long vacations lately. Business must be good!

I took 2 weeks of Spanish in Guatemala having not known any at all. Being billeted with a family and taking 4 hours of private tutoring per day meant that I could easily communicate and even have simple conversations.