The Lion, The Witch, and the Headache

75 minutes later and I proudly announce to my host family "I finished 3 pages!"
I know.. it's really, really hard. One sentence will be really easy and I'll think "Hey, I'm doing it! I'm understanding!" and then the next will have me saying "There's no way I'll get through this." then back to the positive with the next sentence, only to be followed by a never-in-a-million-years feeling with the next.

The first three pages of my book are now covered in my mad scribbles. And my head hurts.
I figure that I can finish this book in a month if I work on it every day. So there's my goal. I plan to finish this book by April 8.

My host mother had to put up with my questions all morning, since some words go together and that means I can't find the second one in the dictionary and I get all worried and read her the sentence and then she has to explain to me in Turkish. This is good because I'm learning the words as ideas and not as translations. At least, I think it's good. I'm remembering those ones better. I'm finding it difficult to figure out who is the subject of the sentences sometimes, because of the sentence structure. (I must sound ridiculous. Translation- "After saying good night to the professor, the boys went up the stairs. Did the boys go up or did the professor go up?") But overall, I'm feeling optimistic about this.

-The Little Foreigner That Could
(I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.)