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pseydtonneThose of you that know me in the real world have heard me talk about the Hypothetical Trip to France. I have been wanting to get my spoken French from "fumbling a lot and scared to speak when not stoned" to "good enough to be a taxi driver". I've been doing a lot of research and found that it would be most useful to study in France instead of Quebec because the programs may be equal but the chat time outside class will be in a French I can fathom.
I want to spend about four weeks in an immersion class and wind up with a DELF B2 Certificate, which would mean I officially wouldn't suck all that much in French. Obviously this isn't cheap, and I only get unpaid time off at work. Thus I would need enough money to pay for two months of rent and sundry while I'm gone, a month's housing and classes, a round trip ticket to some western European hub, and enough petty cash to keep from dying. I set a number in my head (eight grand) as the desired buffer.
My grandmother died in January of last year and we'd been waiting for the probate and estate process to finish. My dad had offered me half of his cut. I had long since filed this somewhere between "when Moschiach comes" and "long enough off" because so much weirdness happened. Heck, I assumed the money would dissolve in legal fees and that would be the end of it.
I can finally drop the word 'hypothetical' and swap it with "How Soon Can I Take a". The money is real -- real enough that my parents used a little of their money today to buy a 40" LCD television with cash. There is a cut check with my name on it.
Oh wow, this is so exciting! I'm ready to fly about the room, let alone fly to Yurp. I still have to narrow down my short-list candidates for the class, let the boss know I'll be gone for five weeks, make a deposit on a program, schedule a flight and sit on my hands for a few weeks while I count down to departure (airlines tickets are cheapest when you can wait at least three weeks). Does anyone know why the return flight's price shoots up one your return date is more than 30 days from departure?
I want to spend about four weeks in an immersion class and wind up with a DELF B2 Certificate, which would mean I officially wouldn't suck all that much in French. Obviously this isn't cheap, and I only get unpaid time off at work. Thus I would need enough money to pay for two months of rent and sundry while I'm gone, a month's housing and classes, a round trip ticket to some western European hub, and enough petty cash to keep from dying. I set a number in my head (eight grand) as the desired buffer.
My grandmother died in January of last year and we'd been waiting for the probate and estate process to finish. My dad had offered me half of his cut. I had long since filed this somewhere between "when Moschiach comes" and "long enough off" because so much weirdness happened. Heck, I assumed the money would dissolve in legal fees and that would be the end of it.
I can finally drop the word 'hypothetical' and swap it with "How Soon Can I Take a". The money is real -- real enough that my parents used a little of their money today to buy a 40" LCD television with cash. There is a cut check with my name on it.
Oh wow, this is so exciting! I'm ready to fly about the room, let alone fly to Yurp. I still have to narrow down my short-list candidates for the class, let the boss know I'll be gone for five weeks, make a deposit on a program, schedule a flight and sit on my hands for a few weeks while I count down to departure (airlines tickets are cheapest when you can wait at least three weeks). Does anyone know why the return flight's price shoots up one your return date is more than 30 days from departure?
