{"id":41,"date":"2009-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-02T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T20:22:13","slug":"graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2009\/01\/02\/graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;Graduation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2009\/01\/2329_50605.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2009\/01\/2329_50605.jpg\" alt=\"Me and my French teacher at the graduation celebration\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Well, finally I have completed a year of French studies!&nbsp; Yea!&nbsp; I received a fancy diploma that said that I received a title of &quot;assez bien&quot;.&nbsp; Translated, that means &quot;good enough&quot;.&nbsp; HA!&nbsp; That&#8217;s a very encouraging grade!&nbsp; I think that really means something like a &quot;B&quot; in American grades.&nbsp; It reminds me of why I wanted to learn how to speak for myself in West Africa in the first place&#8230;because translations are never quite the same as being able to communicate directly.<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to say goodbye to friends in France and I spent more hours than usual with them before leaving.&nbsp; I received my grades after spending about 6 hours with a friend.&nbsp; After an entire day speaking French and not feeling tired of it, I decided that no matter what my grade was, I had met my goal.&nbsp; Being able to communicate and counsel a friend in God&#8217;s truth while never saying a word of English is a great accomplishment! Thanks for the part you all played this year!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grace a Jesus-Christ, nous sommes tous assez bien avant Dieu!&nbsp; &#8230;.Thanks to Christ Jesus, we are all (believers) good enough before God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Enough!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}