Letter #53: Dear Verena

Okay… so this is a bit of an unofficial letter. See, I’m writing to Verena, the mother of the family who is letting me live with them for three months. It is Mother’s Day, and she’s been pretty amazing so far, and I definitely want to thank her for that. But I also want to do it in German. So, at the end of the summer, I will write her and Oliver properly, but for now I have a mini letter that I wrote, thanking her for making my first week and a half in Germany perfect!

And P.S. Thank you for filling my room with pretty flowers, like this:

Lettre #52: Grand-maman!

Salut tout le monde, happy May Day!

Aujourd’hui, j’écris finalement à une personne pas mal incroyable et à notre lectrice la plus assidue, nulle autre que ma chère grand-maman.  Demain, c’est ça fête, donc une raison de plus de lui dire merci!

Yup, you’ve figured it out, this is a letter for my grandma, a pretty epic lady.  It’s her birthday tomorrow, so that’s one more reason to write to her!

Thanks for reading, and hope you had a fantastic weekend!  I’m still home, in Sudbury, and got to see old friends and family, prepare for my term in Ghana, and… get excited for the results of the upcoming election.  I voted (for the first time) early in the Waterloo-Kitchener riding (Peter Braid, the current conservative MP only won by a handful of votes last time around, so I had to vote there, to do my job to avoid the blues…).  Regardless of your political convictions, please vote my friends, it’s the least we can do to respect our democracy, plus it was pretty fun!

Merci d’avoir lu une lettre pour une grande dame!  Je vous souhaite d’aller votez en grands nombres mes amis!  Merci de prendre le temps de montrer que vous tenez à coeur notre démocratie.

Bonne semaine, et à bientôt!

Marc-André