Friday, June 20, 2008

la lingua franca

after 6 days of total immersion in france where not a single word of english has passed my lips, my brain has flicked the switch and i am now thinking en francais. love it, ca fait du bien! i only hope the transition to spanish is as painless - michelina, a cuando nuestra cena para praticar la idioma?!!

while i seem to have the language thing licked, it is taking me a bit longer to exorcise my culture and city. case in point, upon awakening this morning to the sound of a bell clanging in the distance, i caught myself imagining an old polish man in his knife sharpening truck rather than the bell's true bovine owner!

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