My Dutch teacher Jelle e-mailed me this morning.  Here’s the translation from Dutch …

I corrected the exams today. Your exam was good. You did very well!

You scored well on all skills: listening, reading and writing.

Speaking too, but when speaking I notice that you need a lot of time to formulate sentences.

What!?  I passed?  I got so confused during the speaking exam.  Often I couldn’t understand what Jelle was saying.

Miracles happen.

And now I will go regularly to conversation sessions at Amal, where a small group of us newbies will sit with a native Dutch speaker.

And on I thoroughly go.

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For those of you whose first language isn’t English, the title refers to a printing press.  After the editor made final decisions about what would be in the day’s newspaper, the press was ready to start.  But last minute news meant the front page story would change.

Well … my front page story has just changed!