ooooh that's really nice place to go
and u r right praying, even for more patience and strength does help and does calm u down...as for talking with family, yeah better be evazive they don't understand anyway and maybe they will give us extra worry thinking something is wrong, they don't know that this is how CIC works
for me the conforting place is l'Oratoire St Joseph, in the summer u can stay outside way up on the stairs...u feel like u r on top of the world and nothing no matter how hard will stay in ur way
also in distance u see how the planes land and u pray that one day ur loved one will b on one of those planes
(for the ones checking just to see who got the visa and who get annoyed from all these posts, i'm sorry, but someone could feel soo lost and desperate, here is the only place s/he can talk)
take care all!! :-*