Greetings from Europe--Debbie

From: debbie.brinson1 <debbie.brinson1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:52 AM
Subject: Greetings from Europe
To: gglsunny@gmail.com

Hi Sunny,

Would you mind putting this on the class blog? Thanks, Debbie

Hi Everyone

I'm in southern France at the moment in a small town called Carcassone. It's famous for its small medieval city perched on a hilltop overlooking the new town. It was built in about the 12 century and has been really well restored. It's fabulous! We're really enjoying France, the people, the culture and the food, and I've had fun trying to use my school French, I ask a question then have no idea what the answer is.

I've attached a couple of photos taken from a tablet(so not so good), one is of a small village in southern Turkey where we stayed for a couple of nights on the boat-it was typical of many lovely little places along the Turkish coast. The other is in the fascinating city of Venice, where we spent 5 days. We'll probably spend another week or two in France then fly to Madrid. I spent a year learning Spanish a few years ago, it's probably all gone now- use it or lose it! I really appreciate how good your English is(every one of you) because of my failed attempts to learn other languages- it's not easy!!

How are you all going? Mantasha, is all well with you? Michael I hope you ask Peter A LOT of questions. I think of each of you often and hope that you're skills are really starting to come together and that all the time and work you've put in has been worthwhile. I know it gave me great pleasure to see the development of the students I taught from the beginning of the year. I'm sorry I haven't seen that with everyone. I expect to hear about the great things you go on to do.

Well, I'll sign off now, hope you're managing to keep Philip in line, and not giving Mersaline too many grey hairs!

My warmest regards

Debbie