Friday, January 8, 2010

Mummy-talk in a Second Language

Jacques and I were brought up in villages and our childhoods were very simple. You either played in your own garden with your siblings or popped round to play with another kids. You could stay for repast and no-one would bother, and you went home when it was getting late. But thirty eld on all that has changed and playing with another kids is timetabled, along with the another after-school activities. You thence requirement to ‘network’ another collection mothers and work discover what period their children are free. I have had to do a break course in ‘second-language-mummy-talk’ to get by.


The land mothers don’t know anything most me (they are very curious) and on the first official get-together I have to go finished the whole abstract in French…. where I am from, where we live now, how some kids we have, which collection and teacher, why I put kids in land school, what my husband does and even where we are going for the next holiday. When I have got finished all that there is the private mummy chat….what do you rattling think most the teacher and have you heard most so-and-so who had an affair…. After emerging from the home a land neighbor, who offered me a drink when I arrived to pick up Gabriel and interrogated me for 40 minutes, I felt same I was 16 again and attractive my oral communicating in French. I meet requirement a credential in ‘mummy-talk’ now!
 
 
 
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