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Well, my wife, Marian, and I have been fortunate to have good health for the seventeen years
that we have been retired and we’ve made the most of that. We’ve taken trips in different
places. We’ve been to Europe a couple of times. We’ve been to different places in
the United States. But one of the nicest vacations or experiences that I had was actually about
ten years ago where my my daughter and I went to Quebec for three weeks to have an immersion
class in French at the University of Quebec at Three Rivers. And this was a remarkable
experience because while French is my native tongue, my daughter, Denise, had studied French
in college and she had spent a year in France so that we were both fairly adept in the language
and meeting the people in Quebec and also many people from the United States that were
there. There were, I would guess, forty of us from the United States attending the class.
And we were various proficiencies in the French language but it … and we we were supposed
to speak only French for three weeks. This was fine with outsiders, but within the forty
insiders we always spoke English, so we kind of cheated in that regard. But meeting the
people, faculty and students, was a marvelous experience and learning how another culture
works and lives was a real fine experience for me, especially because my own heritage
went back to the Quebec French Canadians. So that’s one thing I would like to repeat.
Thank-you.