After a relatively short period of procrastination, I called up Alliance Française d'Auckland to see if I could start taking classes with them. I also like the idea of meeting some people to practice speaking with and having access to the library. The lady I spoke to wanted to guage where I would fit into the array of classes they hold, and asked me to stop by the office for a few minutes. Rather than putting it off, I went down there immediately after work today.

When I arrived, I was asked to form a few sentences. Whatever came to mind. Nothing to mind. She asked a few questions and I did my best to answer them in french. She could see that I knew a lot of the grammer at the intermediate level, but that my speaking was very weak, which I knew. However, the class that she wanted to put me in doesn't fit with my schedule at all.

No matter what day it happened to be on, I'm going to have to shuffle things to fit this class in. The least of the problems would be Thursday, or maybe tuesday. That means that I have to be ready for the Intermediate I class by February 1st. I sat down with one of the instructors of that class and went through roughly the same thing as with the first lady I spoke to, and she came to the same conclusion. I am going to need some work to be ready in time.

One on one lessons it will be. We agreed on 3 hours in the next two weeks, and hopefully it will be enough for me to be speaking passably at the proper level.