yesterday was the last day of classes for me this term. i had only two:historical linguistics and syntax. i enjoyed both of them thoroughly (much to my surprise with syntax... it's not as scary/boring as i had previously imagined). monday will be my final in syntax, then i'll be officially done. i am also finished with my historical term paper on Hawai'i Creole English which has opened my eyes to the world of sociolinguistics. i picked the topic rather arbitrarily, but ended up learning a lot and becoming really interested in it. <3
james is officially the president of pitt's Student Auto Racing Team. i'm really proud of him - he really has .no. time to be doing all of these extra-curricular things, but he's taking everything in stride. everything with the racing team is still primitive. that is to say, the boys are working on campaigning, sponsorships, awareness raising and the like. there is currently no garage, but a couple offers of cars already. i'll help them in any way that i can. so far this year, the biggest car-type involvement i've had was purchasing two Kumho's for the car to replace worn out summer tires. ah, well... i'll learn more as time goes on...
on april 11th, i was able to participate in a Amnesty International Write-a-thon in pittsburgh. christen invited me to come, which i'm thankful for. i wrote 5 letters to leaders all over the world about: women trafficking inMontenegro, border crossing shootings on the China/Tibet/Nepalese boarder , night commuters in Uganda, genocide in Darfur (in eastern Sudan), and to US General Attorney for atrocities in Guantanamo Bay - disobeying international law and Geneva Conventions. christen also gave a lovely speech -impromptu style- about trafficking. this is sparking the bug in me to become more involved on activist issues, and we'll see how everything turns out. i'm excited to go to a meeting by christen's organization about trafficking next week -- and convinced Em to join me - yay! i have a secret - i think those two would get along great so i'm trying to bring them together. if they read this i'll be found out! <.< >.>
on the same vein of thought, em showed me an article about photography in politics. it was also wonderful. (i'm thankful for friends who are actually well informed. i feel like we all have so much to contribute to each other <3). She showed me Salgado a Brazilian photographer and American photographer Nachtwey - i highly recommend clicking around their galleries, they're wonderful.
tessa revealed how much she enjoyed speaking spanish. she suggested spanish get togethers! ^_^ i'm definitely all for this, but i'm really shy about my ability to speak (or lack thereof) spanish...
on a final note, this summer, i'm dedicating to learning. i'm still debating what exactly i'm going to delve into. current prospects are: japanese or german, java (or some other programming language), re-learning spanish, or possibly other ling courses such as semantics... we shall see!
on april 11th, i was able to participate in a Amnesty International Write-a-thon in pittsburgh. christen invited me to come, which i'm thankful for. i wrote 5 letters to leaders all over the world about: women trafficking inMontenegro, border crossing shootings on the China/Tibet/Nepalese boarder , night commuters in Uganda, genocide in Darfur (in eastern Sudan), and to US General Attorney for atrocities in Guantanamo Bay - disobeying international law and Geneva Conventions. christen also gave a lovely speech -impromptu style- about trafficking. this is sparking the bug in me to become more involved on activist issues, and we'll see how everything turns out. i'm excited to go to a meeting by christen's organization about trafficking next week -- and convinced Em to join me - yay! i have a secret - i think those two would get along great so i'm trying to bring them together. if they read this i'll be found out! <.< >.>
on the same vein of thought, em showed me an article about photography in politics. it was also wonderful. (i'm thankful for friends who are actually well informed. i feel like we all have so much to contribute to each other <3). She showed me Salgado a Brazilian photographer and American photographer Nachtwey - i highly recommend clicking around their galleries, they're wonderful.
tessa revealed how much she enjoyed speaking spanish. she suggested spanish get togethers! ^_^ i'm definitely all for this, but i'm really shy about my ability to speak (or lack thereof) spanish...
on a final note, this summer, i'm dedicating to learning. i'm still debating what exactly i'm going to delve into. current prospects are: japanese or german, java (or some other programming language), re-learning spanish, or possibly other ling courses such as semantics... we shall see!
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you've been found out!
You've been done with school, I mean, you're done! Tu corazon es mi pollo de la sol, which means: Do you or do you not wanting?
man, i'm worse at spanish than i thought!
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