Grown Up Daughters!

       Hooray! Rachel, my oldest daughter is finished with her ESL school in Berlin as of today! She is now a certified ESL teacher! This is so surreal to me. But then, life has been like a Fellini film for the best 5 or 6 months anyway. I am sooooo proud of her! The school she went to was like a boot camp. She said they worked all day in to the night including all the homework with lesson plans, etc. Her Aunt Nancy is a an ESL teacher and owns a language school in Columbia, South Carolina called Language Expresso. She used to be a professor at University of Memphis in the International Program. She had recommended this school because it was one of the best but very intense. Rachel did not know intense until she got in to it. There have been some tears and some euphoria over the past four to five weeks but she did it! She graduated from U of M in December and now she is a teacher! The feeling of following something through to its completion and then succeeding is a wonderful feeling. It is a fabulous way to start her adult life. If I sound as if I am bragging, I am. To me, Rachel and Ariel are my biggest and best successes in my life.  They are also blessed with wonderful grandparents.  They are truly a gift from God. I am sure I would feel this way no matter what they did with their lives but I really think they have turned out quite well.