Parlez- vous francais?

I have watched videos on France and Ireland. I have listened to advice and heard interesting suggestions.  I have been to France before and found the people to be loathe to speak English, even though most of them knew how.  My prior experience with French had been in college where, as a vocalist, I had to take a class called French Diction for Singers.  There we learned the International Phonetic Alphabet and which French spelling patterns made which sounds. We had to translate our French songs and arias. This enabled us to understand what we were singing as well as how to pronounce the text. To this day I can pronounce the heck out of any French word I see.  I just can't really speak French.  In preparation for this trip, I enrolled in a French class at a nearby haven for francophiles. I attend a three-hour class once a week.  I also downloaded a language course using my local library card.  I purchased two books: French for Dummies and French Now.  I use them at home.  Finally, I bought a French-learning app for my iPad.  It has lessons but primarily the instruction comes in the form of games.  It's fun.  It's all fun.  Learning languages is fun.  I love the mental calesthenics I have to go through as I try to communicate.  I am amazed at how my brain occasionally shuts down when I attempt a response in class.  This is very good for me.  I might not be able to say too much in France but at least I'll understand a fair amount of spoken French and I'll be able to read signs.  Numbers, on the other hand, are tough. They seem to only be able to count to seventy-nine.  After that, the original French speakers must have run out of ideas for names for numbers and they decided to build on twenty and the teens, and the whole thing is very confusing from eighty to ninety-nine.  Can I speak French?  Not really.  But I've worked really hard, I have a great accent and I will know how to find the bathrooms.