Getting Dumber

It really hasn’t been that long since I stopped going to school, only since the Spring semester, but I have noticed that I can’t think of certain things quickly enough.  I think I need to do something to exercise my mind.  Today I downloaded my Rosetta Stone to my new desktop computer.  I bought levels 1, 2 and 3 back in 2008 as a graduation gift to myself and the only level I have worked on is the 1st one.  It was 500ish dollars that I spent on this course and for different reasons I didn’t continue with my plan to learn French.  Today I decided that it is unacceptable to have the resources and not use them so starting today I will be studying French once again.  It is not enough for me to be bilingual as I have always wanted to learn French.  My mom pushed me to learn English because I would need it but I really didn’t want to learn it.  I don’t mind doing something because I have to but there has to be a balance between responsibilities and activities we do for fun.  Learning French I will do for fun and also because I spent a lot of money on this course.  It just HAS to be put to use.  So we’ll see how it works out… and hopefully it will help me to exercise my brain so that I don’t become dumber by the minute…