A day of silence
I held a day of silence today in honor of Bree's travels back to the US. From 7:30 in the morning when she left until I went to bed, I said less than 50 words all day - to checkers at the store. It was the first quiet day I've had in awhile!
As I washed the dishes, my mouth watered as I washed the pan that Sarah cooked delectable banana bread in - perhaps someday I will attempt to match her feat.
I was glad to find a 24 recap on SkyMix, which showed three straight episodes of 24, one and a half of which I had missed.
London weather is bizarre - it was 90 degrees on Friday and now it's probably 55 or so. We've realized that it could get quite hot, so we invested in a fan, which unfortunately does not have a freezer or compressor of any kind attached to it.
Today I followed in my sister's footsteps, which I'm sure she'll be glad to know, and ran the powerpoint at church. Sometimes a little effort can go a long way - you would have thought I'd given a million dollars the way some of those people ogled at a formatted slide.
My Journeyman friend from Amarillo now North London came down and went to church with me and then became my latest guinea pig for nominal cooking efforts - meatballs and noodles. We swapped experiences with internationals, and he recounted his recent adventures in the Arabian peninsula, including a stop in Yemen.
Today I will probably plough a little deeper through The Scramble for Africa.
In a discussion that we had this week, Bree and I attempted to decide which foreign language that we'd like to learn; perhaps you have some suggestions for us.
Languages Most Likely to be an Asset:
1. Chinese
2. Spanish
3. Arabic
Languages Most Possible to Learn:
1. Spanish
2. French
Languages Most Most Likely to be used:
1. Spanish
2. Spanish
3. Arabic
100. Chinese
With that rough assessment, we're pretty much leaning towards Spanish. We might have our friend Francisco the Columbian help us out, but my Journeyman friend did suggest that he would help us line up an Arabic tutor, so we'll just have to see.
With those ramblings, I'm off to take a kipp.
posted by M&B @ 3:16 PM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
hey way to update the blog...and props for running the powerpoint, its a fun thing i tell you. perhaps next time i come to visit i will opt to sleep on the cube. i get to hang out with bree tomorrow. :)
Los españoles, aprenden definitivamente español. Es útil y no es ése difícil. Más, una vez que usted aprenda español, usted bonito sabe mucho italiano también.
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