auf Deutsch

I just got home tonight from a quick trip to see Katie in her first opera at NAU. I forgot how looong operas are. Geez! Of course, it was in German, but they actually had subtitles. I was a little disapointed that I didn't understand as much of the German as I should have after studying it for three years in high school and one in college. I was never fluent by any stretch of the imagination, but I could converse a little with German tourists during my days working on the Strip at Macy's. I was still able to pick out a lot, though. I've heard a lot of people say that if you don't use your foreign language skills frequently you lose them, and the only way to achieve fluency is to immerse yourself in language by speaking it all the time at home or by moving to a country where it is spoken. I guess my only hope for saving my German language skills is to move to Germany or, better yet, Austria (..."the hills are alive...").Well, maybe it doesn't have to be that drastic;I'll settle for a nice European vacation one of these days. Until then... Auf Weidersehen!