Personal Journals by Marcel & Victoria Koning

Here are some of our personal thoughts, feelings and experiences about various aspects of our daily lives. We hope that you can identify with and enjoy reading them.

Moving to a Foreign Language [2007-03-12]
".. It's relatively easy to pick up enough words to get by when eating in a restaurant, but having a conversation with someone is very tiring and frustrating. Can you remember a child reading you a story? Word for word? It's very trying for the listener, and you need lots of patience. So do those people with whom you are trying to speak .."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu