Midterm Resolutions
Wow. So it turns out I’m a bad blogger. I have resolved to be better. One key will be just giving up on the notion of being able to put a lot of pictures on this blog as I write it. Perhaps one day I will have enough time and/or an internet connection fast enough to load up pics to Flickr, but today is not that day. I vow that I will blog at least four times a week for the remainder of this trip.
Here we go.
This has been an amazing experience and I can’t believe it’s almost halfway over. I think I’m learning a lot but it’s still frustrating to speak at such an elementary level. My other new resolution is to spend as much time away from my fellow students as possible to help myself immerse more fully into the language. When students go out into the community to study it’s more intimidating for people to approach us for conversation. I went out to the neighborhood where one can find lots of computer stores to buy a surge protector and a headset for skype-ing. It became a wonderful exercise in language. The concepts and vocabulary I had to use were on the simple side, but I had to continuously repeat and improve upon my dialogue while expecting unusual responses from the “dukandars” (shopkeepers). This is how we learn.
