Baby steps

Hi, I am back after a hiatus of more than a month and I was dismayed to find that I could not search my blog through the search engines. Now, I am very much techno-phobic but I did stumble through the blogger Help and experiment with Google Webmaster tools and submit my blog to Blog catalog, etc. No ideas on how that will help. So, of course my next big task is to write a few good posts - build some blog discipline and commitment and then see where I go on from here.

Read my last post, and realised I have not kept up to any of my promised tasks. It does matter. Take French for eg, if I even learnt a word a day, I would be richer by approximately 30 words, which is a lot. To speak a language you need to have a universe of words (rather like a bag of change - the more the better) to dip into and bring new ones out which just fit the occassion. At least, it kind of minimises the animated gesturing attempts and relapse to English!!

But, I'd also like to say that between the last post and today, I've done some first time things. Travelled with G on the delijn bus to meet a new acquaintance, another SAHM with a 1-year old baby. We now interact on a daily basis and plan to meet sometime soon.

I shrugged my inertia and baked 2 cakes - an orange cake (recipe taken from here) and a carrot cake (recipe mostly based from this really nice food blog). Both were well received by G and her Daddy. For the orange cake, I'm doing an encore une fois, right after this post.

I also started a very slow process of familiarising myself with Flemish - my kind neighbour Francois comes over to give me some Flemish lessons. We practise from the book 'Dribbles eerste woorden', taken from our commune bibliotheek, and G gets to see another face when she gets up from her afternoon nap. Once I reach the chocolate cake stage, I plan to bake a nice cake for him and his wife.

What's wrong with me, why Flemish, when my attempts with French are such a joke with all those who know me! Because, we stay in a Flemish commune, and if we stay long enough for G to start school here, I do want her and myself to be familiar with some everyday words.

This is just chipping away at the mountain, but a start is a start, and never dissuade the enthusiastic. So, wishing myself good luck!!!


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