Well instead of Tally-HO I shall say

OLA!!!

I speak a bit of spanish. Around here, you HAVE to speak languages other than english if you want to order breakfast (which I do in Arabic), shop in the chinese store (which I have learned a few words, like Thank You,, etc.). I have to learn cantonese. I can do this, I have an EAR for languages.

And the best was when I take the Access-a-ride anywhere. In America, in whichever state you live in, if a person is disabled, they can travel by special buses, which pick you up at your door and deposit you at your destination. Here in NY it is called Access-a-ride. This is all going to change soon because they are stopping the door to door thing.

But every time a driver comes to my house to pick him up, and I sit on the bus and then they are talking to their dispatcher and I can hear their accent, I start speaking to them in French.

WELL!!!! You should have seen their faces. I laughed so hard. One guy thought I was born in France. Now I can speak french but no one would mistake me for a french person. But I laughed.

And every single day I learn a new phrase in Arabic. Yesterday I was out with my husband and we met up with a friend who is from French Morocco. My husband had never met her and I was going "Je voudrais presenter mon mari", which translates to "I'd like to introduce my husband", and I'm speaking French and my husband says to me "what am I supposed to say to her". and I said "say it like this: ' ON SHON TAY" and he says it and we all burst out laughing and I said

"She speaks perfect english by the way". We laughed ourselves silly. I try to make Alan laugh every day because neuropathy can wear you down.

So we try to find something funny to laugh about.

Life gives you lemons so you make lemonade.

So hope you join soon and start posting. We are very friendly here and we like to help each other.

Take care,
melody