Tuesday, 27 April 2010

into pieces

I am also being torn into pieces by the fact that I know a professor from Finland (with quite a personality as papers state) is heading his way to my university to teach a crash-course on Arabic. In terms of timetable it's a disaster and will never fit into my crazy life (by the end of May). But my heart is bleeding at mere thought that I will miss this opportunity especially when considering my latest visit and admiration of Turkey and unstoppable desire to travel further to discover the Middle East and Africa. 

But, unfortunately, sometimes we have to make choices...
Hope I won't cry too long and thanks to my second half who managed to bring the reality home for me. Otherwise, I'd have been overworked and overstressed, BUT having basic knowledge of Arabic. 

I still hope I'll make up for it somehow sometime.

little pleasures

Since I was 'kicked out' of realities of social life due to my sickness, accordingly, I wasn't able to deal with the languages (or is it just an excuse?). Namely, with Spanish and French. When I went to my Spanish class last week, I didn't have a clue what the people were talking about, BUT I was fascinated by the way my brain worked in 'picking up' the words that I knew from conversations. Almost the same thing happened with French. However, it was much more complicated because I take it at higher level, which is near to B.1 (Spanish is only approaching A.2).
The thing I wanted to say was that once I decided to write an assignment in Spanish (Mi famosa favorita), I started from the very beginning and installed a spanish keyboard on my computer. 
Then it started...all these gorgeous ¡exclamation! and ¿question marks?, ç, é, ê and è that I finally learnt to type, ñ and Ñ. Mamma mia. I never switch to any other language since then and greet my friends in Spanish. Why are the letters so beautiful and why there are no alternatives in English?

P.S. It is also a crazy fact that having never studied Danish but taken courses of German and learning English I found myself to be totally able to understand all the written things during my time in Copenhagen.