Posted in NaBloPoMo, books, family, good neighbors, music, slice of life, work, tagged books, family, family fun, good neighbors, music, NaBloPoMo, SOL, the family adventure, work on 5 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
So, let’s see …
More-work-than-I-thought-it-would-be final report for our ESOL grant? Check.
Solid working draft of the GED proposal? Check.
Headache big enough for five other heads? Check.
Happy-smiley emails back and forth with a woman who’s been on my nerves for the last couple of days? Check.
No time to relax between now and the middle of October? Check.
BUT [...]
Posted in slice of life, what now?, tagged sad, SOL, what now? on 14 April 2009 | 10 Comments »
I had a completely different slice in mind for today. A cute one. An endearing one. A funny one. But that was before the day stopped being cute, endearing and funny. The bad day I thought was coming yesterday slid over to today instead. And it was much worse than I thought it would be. [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo, language, slice of life, things I love, tagged language, learning, NaBloPoMo, SOLSC, things I love on 31 March 2009 | 15 Comments »
Still thinking about language and brain function …
I am usually ‘good’ with languages: I learn them relatively easily, pick things up quickly when I’m immersed. That kind of thing. But there’s another, weirder thing, too. I am sometimes able to understand languages I don’t know.
I was going to write that the first time I noticed [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo, brain freeze, language, slice of life, tagged brain freeze, language, learning, NaBloPoMo, SOLSC on 30 March 2009 | 13 Comments »
… in Spanish he’s el gato in a sombrero …
I read somewhere that childen raised multi-lingual go through a period during which they speak all of their languages at once. Their brains don’t sift through and focus on one tongue. They find the necessary word and use whichever language they find it in first.
I loved [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo, my own private Idaho, out and about, slice of life, things I love, tagged my own private Idaho, NaBloPoMo, out and about, SOLSC, things I love on 29 March 2009 | 11 Comments »
Have you noticed that I meet a lot of strangers? People always talk to me on the street. As I said in the Kindred post, Fox says it’s because they look at my face and know that I’ll respond. Maybe that’s true. I’m always surprised when people talk to me. At the same time, how [...]
