out of sight and out of mind

I have been listening to my cds to familiarize myself to the language. How quickly I seem to forget everything. My computer won’t play the Language Now properly so I do what I can. For some reason it won’t play the movies and I haven’t any microphone to record my own attempts to speak. I keep messing with it though so maybe something will work for me. The Before You Know It 3.6 is fun to go through. For some reason I enjoy flashcards, maybe it’s more competitive for me or maybe that’s just how I learned in elementary school? Language table is Thursday so I hope to make it there. It’s been hard to get the things done that I need to but I have to make more of an effort. What I want to do is to get my own personal language table going at my home. I need to organize some space to spread out all my word charts and start writing out things I want to say and learn.

trying to follow blogs

I have been reading other peoples blogs but for some reason I have been getting errors when I try to follow them. I will continue to try.

miigwech gaa-biindagaw (not sure if thats correct but..)

Hello my fellow students thank you for looking here. I must first apologize at not posting since the beginning. You see my father is in the hospital since the beginning of this last week and it is really time consuming. This all began last fall when he was diagnosed with cancer and I’m afraid it is really taking its toll on him as of late. The title of my blog is kind of appropriate for me as I feel this experience is a beginning. It wasn’t meant to signify life and death, just my language learning journey, but oftentimes I’ve discovered, we aren’t in a position to choose such things. We are simply left with whatever we have today or just what we can do from this point forward, that’s all. So I must say I would have loved to have been a first language speaker or to be fully immersed in our culture from my birth but it just didn’t happen so……………what do you do from here, or what am I going to do. This is about me isn’t it? That concept is even a bit foreign for me. To write my thoughts and intentions is kind of scary to me because I think I’m kind of weird anyways so I hope I don’t freak any one out or offend anyone. I will try to keep it PG-13 but I can’t guarantee it. I also hope things will be more positive in the coming weeks but I know there are some hard times coming, sometimes it is hard to see any balance but its there. miiw