"En Classe Nous Parlons en Francais"

"In class we speak in French" is supposed to be the rule now after 1 month of class and we pretty much stick to it most of the time. However, there are times when you just can't find the french or maybe you brain has been "french fried" as I coined the phrase. It was good to be able to begin the year with already having some french and we are are learning a lot, but now we realize how much french we do not know. It can be frustrating at times but we will prevail. We have a total of 11 people in our class from different countries like Australia, South Africa, Germany, USA, and Brazil who are all at different levels of french. Class is very often like a roller coaster ride. Sometimes you get everything and you feel like your at on the top of a mountain, then there are times you feel totally lost and everything seems downhill and you will never be able to speak at the level you desire. However me being the optomist I am, I believe our comprehension and speaking has progressed since we have been here. Also you have to remember that we are trying to cram about 8 years worth of language learning into 10 months. Maybe we should have learned to speak english correctly before we started trying to learn french!