4th post.

This post is about next Friday. I cannot talk about only one conversation I had because you have to follow many of them. You have to listen to all of them, on the same time because they are just so happy to tell you what happened this week, they all want to say to you what made you sad or even mad lately on the week. And of course, they all want to talk about Hanukkah or Christmas. They all want you to help them to made cards and things like that so at the end of the day, your brain is full and you are exhausted. There’s a little bit too much information at one time. You really have to follow the conversation by body language and fortunately, it is easier with person with intellectual diseases. You cannot only fix your impression on their smile because some of them always seem to smile. So you look on their face. Thanks God, I like ‘’Lie to me’’.  I totally recommend it. You only have to watch their eyebrow or their shoulder. One of them wasn’t feeling good. He was looking right in front of him, by the window, the head in one of his hand. I asked him if he was ok but he told me that he wasn’t so I asked him if he wanted to talk about it but he didn’t. In every day’s life I don’t feel comfortable when someone doesn’t feel right but it’s different for me with them.  Because I know that they will be ok sooner instead of my friends and other people who continue to put misery in their life and being pessimist. They still come to see me and tell me that they love French and want me to talk to them in French. When I don’t understand something they said, they try to repeat it in French instead of English. That’s the biggest problem. I forgot some words but when I’m not sure I ask them. These are some of the words I forgot through the years.  

Numb: It means ‘’engourdis’’. I asked them because I couldn’t feel my hand.

Overwhelmed: It means that it’s too much in French we say: Surpassé (par les évenements, etc.)

Third time lucky: It’s when you fail 2 times to do something. It’s an idiom. In French we say: Jamais deux sans trois.  

Billy wind: Another Idiom.  It’s when the wind is blowing so hard. She said: ‘’Can you hear Billy Wind out there?’’

Ears are burning: When you feel or know that someone is bullshitting about you.