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"Mon embrayage patine?"

Was one sentence in french I heard way too often.

It was Raffa's sentence of pride - and we had some hard days training to make his tongue speak the french language.

It means somewhat like: "My clutch is slipping?" and is in fact completly useless, but we learned it from our little language book we got with us. Interesting? No, for sure not ... but I think that is just the right introduction in the review of the first english spoken beginners painting class we had in Versailles, France about one week ago. If I should describe the weekend from my point of view I could only find one word some others already used: brilliant!

If you are interested in reading a live report from John over at WAMP! - click here!

Cheers to you, John!

First of all - before everything else I want to drop a massive "Thank you!!!" to Valerie and Francois. Valerie for keeping us guests for a little while and Francois for providing so much organisation quality to make the weekend as brilliant as it was.

Also I want to thank Felix, from PK-PRO who sponsored a lot of great stuff to the class and rescued me because I was not able to carry more stuff in the train. That one monster bag was enough! Thank you so much for your great products - as I have seen many have been used.

Many thanks to everyone involved in the class and for sure my bibab, Raffa for his help and for making this weekend a brilliant experience for both of us. To be honest - yes - I was damned scared to speak in english as last time I tried while explaining something to some australian friends here at our place in germany it was like Chewbacca meets the Bee Gees from my pronouncations and vocal garbage noises. So, yes I was kind of respectful and scared about doing the class in english, but in the end it all went well thanks to everyones patience and help. Yes, I learned a lot.

Many thanks to everyone for helping me out with the photos. I did not find the time to take many by my own, so I am really happy about your help.

There have been three things that made my heart heavy during the weekend.

- The silence in the room during the early start of the class, this was truely scary.

- One participant got sick and she wasn't able to attend to the class for Saturday and Sunday - I am still waiting for your mail or I'll try to be at you soon ;)

- Third, there was one participant who had to leave earlier on Sunday and he was missing on the final day somehow :)

There have been way too many things that made me proud and happy during this weekend.

- I was happy to have participants from U.K., Sweden, Spain and France (the last one was pretty

obvious).

- My english wasn't too bad at all. Not as good as this guys tongue!

- My french improved - not too big steps, but hey! - My participants did awesome during the weekend, even two of them had to leave before the main

big painting time on Saturday night, gladly they returned on Sunday. I really enjoyed watching their

projects grow from nothing.

- Raffa and me felt that teaching the class in english was truely nice, as we had the feeling the

english language gives us way more options to be precise on the things we want to tell compared to

the german language.

- Thanks to all the participants for helping eachother in so many ways (camping, etc.)