a french garden


(not really - it is in Seattle, at "The Good Shepherd Center" founded to help wayward girls, meaning girls who were pregnant likely as teens - ugh.  Now there any number of organizations there - including Alliance Francais, where i began today, back into French.  Interesting, 6 students, two with first language Hindi, another first language Vietnamese, three like me, english, and teacher Arabic as first.  Makes for a forgiving environment!  My old french was kinda of sorta "rising")