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