Tomorrow is the big day. It is the day I reach the final goal I set for myself for 2005.
The American-German Business Club asked me to be their keynote speaker for their final meeting of the year. It came rather suddenly. So I mustered a "yes" after giving the VP a hard time.
"Who cancelled?" I joshed on the phone with him.
"Prince Leopold."
Silence.
"Okay...November 30th, you said?" I tried hard to stifle a snicker, then an appalling yelp that threatened to escape my larnyx. Prince Leopold? I don't know who he is, but he sounds impressive.
Moisture dripped from my underarms as I hung up the phone. I rifled through my speaker's notes and came up with a topic: How to Raise Bilingual Children.
In the last three weeks, I must have held that speech thirty times. As a matter of fact, I missed two exits on the way home and drove an extra thirty miles because I was practicing in the car.
But now it is too late. Tomorrow is the big day. And I'm glad of it.




