The challenge to use new words in order to memorize them! In spite of studying english at school for 7 years, my level is still lower intermediate. This english learning was a long time ago and I didn’t practice a lot on the 15 last years excepted when I was travelling, so I’m quite useless but I strive to improve my english. I have been started up again practice english for almost 2 years but in a irregular way so much that I could actually understand and recognize some words but there are a lot of them which make me think about something… but what?? That’s the point: I’m not able to remember the sense of words which are very used in the everyday speech. But I’m not given up ! Lately, I noticed that I have a pretty good comprehension of english (I listen english podcast and read in english daily since 2 weeks) but I’m really limited in speaking easily, basically… yes I’m sure I’m not the only one in this case on Italki :) ) So one of my goal is to re-activate some useful vocabulary to be able to use it at speaking. As an example, very often in conversation it’s difficult to me to use words like « beyond » and « behind », I think it’s also difficult because « beyond » has different senses (like a lot of words in english and maybe in other languages). I’m convinced that if I manage to memorize some phrase like « this work is beyond my competencies » and « I couldn’t go back home beyond 8 pm because my son is waiting for me » it could helpful to learn and to memorize. Today my challenge is writing a little bit in english using some vocabulary words I would like to memorize more easy. In fact it’s a double challenge because I want to use the words and off course I want that the sentences make sense. At the end of the week, I will have to tidy my house not because it is covered in filth but the fact is I’m going on holiday for a couple of weeks and I will lend the house to a friend of mine. She will look after my lovely cat. I prefer to do like that, otherwise it made me to ask for friends to visit the cat each 2 or 3 days to check that’s everything is ok. In this way I could unwind during my holidays. I will go to Greece in order to discover the Peloponnese region. I will probably visit landmark places. I won’t be connected a lot on Italki hroughout my travel because I will be in in my camper van, my favorite way of traveling. Thanks in advance to the proficient readers being indulgent with me!