A Friendly Message and Moving

Hey :D

Ohmehgawd I am loving this blog stuff. Just looking through my tabs and finding out I can see what countries people have viewed my blog in, what they used to view it and even their computer browser! This is purely amazing! I'm wondering if the person from Germany was one of my best friends Caitlin, who recently moved there.

I always thought it must be pretty hard to go to another country where you don't know the language. My friend Caitlin didn't have this problem because she'd lived there before for 8 years, so moving back there was no trouble because she's accustomed to the language already.
But then, my friend Beth moved to France when she was... must have been about 8/9 years old? I don't think she knew French, at least not fluently, so how do you cope? (EDIT: After a comment from her I can confirm she was 8 and she only knew the absolute basics.)

People say the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. This is why when I'm older I want to live in France for a while, because I love French and I'd really like to be able to speak it
fluently! It would be so cool to be able to speak more than one language - and if I'm going to be a translator in my later life like one of my possible career tracks is, then I'll need it!

Back to the moving thing, I think that it really must be hard. I found it hard enough to make a smooth transition from junior to secondary school, and that was tough, believe me! Considering it wan't even a language change, I can't begin to consider how hard it must be with a language change added to the mix.

Also, what about friends? There's a very slim chance of having friends already in the new country so how hard must it be to transfer halfway through the school year and have to fit in with the already formed cliques with tight relationships? I don't know about you but I'd feel horrible, unwanted, being alone and not knowing anyone, not even able to understand whether they're being friendly or bitchy.

I'd better go, I've given you all enough to ponder for today (Unless I get bored tonight, then I might possibly post again)

Lots of love,
A potentially multi-lingual Queen. (And Cy, who's sitting here next to me reading everything I type, so he says hi.) xo