March 2011

Green Card

30 March 2011

My wife had incredibly bad luck with her green card. You may recall that she arrived in the US with a fiancée visa which, once the fiancée bit is consummated, so to speak, entitles one to permanent residence and a green card. The physical card was the problem. The INS managed to misspell her name [...]

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And the winner is… Latin

28 March 2011

For those following along with the “which language will Christopher learn in the 6th grade” contest, we have a winner. A full week before the deadline, he declared his decision for Latin, and we turned in the form to the school today. Our preference was for French, and we even tried using to some reverse [...]

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Lingua franca

23 March 2011

In the Gymnasium schools in our state, students start learning a second foreign language (after English) in grade 6. The schools we looked at all offered a choice from Latin, French and Spanish. The public schools all required a choice upon enrollment in the 5th grade, over a year before the courses would actually begin. [...]

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