Deja Vu

Well what do you know I am spending the last three weeks of January the exact same way I spent the last three weeks of January 2009!  I am once again in Montreal, fumbling my way through French trying to fake it but definitely not doing a very good job!  It seems that me and the 6 other English only speaking guys that I am here with are totally transparent before we even open our mouths.  I did make it through the grocery store checkout today without the cashier switching to english so it seems I may have fooled her.  Why oh why didn't I try harder in high school french!  I guess I still have time.  I feel bad that I am not fluent in one of the national languages of our country...not only am I not fluent but I can hardly make out what they are saying and I certainly can't answer very many things..so basically I am depending on them to switch over for me...that just doesn't seem right...it really should work both ways...maybe i'll make learning french my new years resolution!!!