Some goodbad news
posted by Jesse on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 12:04 pm
If you’ve read our updates over the past several months, you probably already know that Quebec passed a new law that raises tuition rates…no, let me rephrase that…skyrockets tuition rates for non-Canadian students. We were told that because we started school before this new law was passed that we would not be affected by it as long as we enrolled in a “certificate program.” Since doing this we have completed the fall and winter sessions and I was looking forward to going back in the summer. Just to be on the safe side, I emailed the program administrator to see if I would still be charged the normal rate during the summer. To my (not-so)surprise, she said that the exemption from the new law is only during the regular school sessions. This is about the 827th time that we have been told something different!
Well this might sound like bad news, and I suppose it could be, but over the past several weeks I had been having an overwhelming urge to study more on my own rather than in the classroom setting. I have progressed through the university’s French program fairly quickly, and I really feel like because of this there are some grammatical areas that I either have not fully grasped or have missed altogether along the way; not because I didn’t learn it by the way, but because I have skipped some levels in the program. Unfortunately, in a class of 20 people I can’t stop the teacher and ask him to cover something that I should have learned as a beginner.
So the plan now is to study with Tiffany’s tutor and individually until the end of June, which is when the tutor begins her summer break, then on my own for July and August, and then with the tutor again until we leave at the end of October.
We know that this is God’s clear direction in our lives at this point, and I am actually very excited about studying on my own once this semester ends on the 25th. I guess that I’m having a relapse of my old “home-schooled syndrome!” Just please pray for us that we will continue to make the progress necessary for us to communicate effectively in Togo.
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