Monthly Archives: April 2009

Do you Know your French Software/Ware?

Today Alicia wrote both her reading comprehension and written expression tests… I can hardly wait to hear about her results! Yet I am convinced she did really good… this young lady there is bilingual, as far as I can judge, and I have no worries. I saw Christie for the last time before dinner… it [...]

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Deux Poids… Deux Mesures!

I just finished watching a story on “Grid Lock”…  looking at traffic jams in major cities around the world certainly makes me appreciate my new online training business… Of course, traffic in Ottawa is nothing compared to other places yet all we need is a couple of centimetres of snow to see chaos on Highway 417… Perhaps [...]

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Which Word?…

It has been another hectic start this week… Luna, who was supposed to take her oral test around May 11, wrote me this morning saying they had called her in for April 14 instead… Okay! It was quite a short notice (rather unusual for the government) yet it was manageable: I gave her my availability [...]

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