there was once a time:

this is a sacred moment. if you' ve forgotten it, then you must forever disappear into your mostly happy apparrently positive life with us govt funding and some lovely female finding you attractive which you always were for a staff kid i'm going off here because I'm unusually bitter tonight and none of this is your fault and I must say at this point that I've appreciated your responses to my posts but my reticence has been based not on refusal to identify with you but refusal to identify with anyone who remembered me from that awkward point in my life.  but here goes.  let's check how detailed your memory is:

Must have been 8th grade.  because I was still in Bongo.  We went on some sort of hike.  You and I were in formation somewhat together, as was teacher Trish somebody.  Furman?  Possibly.  In any case, sort of a trying to be hip sort of teacher, and doing well, considering we had nobody like that at the time.  You and I, and possibly somebody else, were walking together and discussing Siamese Dream, by the smashing pumkins.  later, after my expulsion, other students would get in trouble for listening to Smashing Pumpkins.  But at that time, no one had added it to the "banned music list".  and I remember you and I and miss Furman discussing this album as we hiked into what must have been the wilds of Kijabe.  Is this made up? Possibly.   but i do remember that you had an affinity for that album, Siamese Dream .  But many things now seem clear and they actually arent'......

Hello Kyle,
I like your site that you worked hard to make simple yet elegant. I see that you don't have much to write here lately!
I like to write articles about God and religion on my site to help people to really get to know God, especially in these troubled times: 9"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10) I hope you get a chance to look at them. Many people consider themselves to be close to God but there is a lot we can learn about God if we seek to know more!

RYC:

the technical linguistic definition of fluency has nothing to do with reading & writing.  To be fluent in a language means that you speak & understand freely and smoothly, without tripping up a lot.  So there are different kinds of fluency, and even a native speaker of a language is not fluent in all forms of that language.

For example, if we start up a conversation that's full of pop-culture references, I quickly become disfluent, even though we're speaking English.  And in Russian, I am fluent in most registers of speech but not in highly colloquial or highly academic registers.  In Spanish, I'm fluent on a street register, but not on a formal register.  etc