Mon Français terrible!

I absolutely adore the french language, but the fact is that I'm absolutely terrible at writing it. Terrible!  So here's me... I hand in the rough copy of my short story to the teacher thinking "Well, it shouldn't be too bad since I'm mostly writing in the present tense."  Haha. Hahahaha. All 5 pages are covered in little red markings.  And some of them are so ridiculous that I can't help but laugh at myself.

Instead of writing the word "To confide," I wrote the word that means "To crystallize" or "To soak in fat".

Some of the markings that I got were two "Not a verb," two "Not a tense," one "Not French" and the best: "Not a word in any language."

I also got the meaning of the word "est" wrong no less than fifteen times (I counted)! It means "it".  I keep on getting it mixed up with the word "et" which means "and".  Mostly she just circled it, but the last time I used 'et' instead of 'est', I got a huge circled mark on the paper saying IT!

And then, what did I do?  I actually changed the French mistake into the English word... I came back later and in the middle of all the French on my page was "it".

But, oh, it continues.  When I came back to correct this post, I realize that I'd even written down the definitions for the words wrong on here!  I had written "est means and" & "et means 'it'" when it's the other way round!

Oh yeah, and I somehow created a new verb tense in which the only rule is to stick the past participle of etre into any situation possible.  She wasn't quite sure what to make of that one.

Je suis troublee...

Tout Le Monde En Français

So, the other day in French class, we were taught how to pray en Français.  Being at a Christian high school, I suppose it wasn't unexpected, but it did surprise me a little.  Why, I'm not sure.  I suppose it was because I'm not used to the idea of someone teaching us how to pray.  I mean, sure, we were taught how to in Sunday School or whatever, but, prayer is supposed to flow naturally.  And in all honesty, it's expected.  I mean, after being in Christian Education for 7 years, I should have learned something.

So, on we were, into the bold realms of structured prayer, and in all honesty, I had no idea what some of the things taught were.  Like some guideline that someone wrote up.  I think it's based on the Lord's prayer, so it's canon, but I'd never heard of the thing before!  It made me feel distinctly awkward while everyone was talking about the different parts.  I know Jesus instructed his followers how to pray, but since when did prayer become a formula, and how did I miss learning it?

Then we learned the vocab words, which were slightly essential.  Apparently Amen is the same in both languages.

Then on to writing it, and all I could think about was how much I miss Geoffrey.  And so, at the end of the prayer, all I could echo were the lyrics of the song played at his funeral.  

Tu donne et emporte, You give and take away.