Learning French

.... or rather the lack of me learning French that is really starting to annoy me. After coming back from an awesome Quebec Regional conference at the end of September I found that representing myself as a leader of this national organization felt humiliating at times given my inability to speak the French language. 

All of my teammates had at least a decent understanding - then there is me - stereotypical isolated  student from Alberta. It is at home in Calgary where you hardly notice it for you feel quite far from the East and French - you just know that Canada is a bilingual nation and you accept it just as that. In my time as a student I just took other paths that (at that time) happily avoided French. In junior high I took Drama and Art instead of French, then when it got to high school French didn't seem like such a good idea given that I never really took it before. 

I think the school system has changed now to make French compulsory - more than the four elementary years that I received. But now I am thinking that bilingual school is a must if I had to do it all over again. 

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure I've had this revelation before ... yep... just checked the archives, I definitely felt this way after being in Paris :P (Link to previous post)