Parle-ing Francais!

It's now the third week of French classes for moi :) And it is easily the most fun I have had in a classroom. Sort of like being in a live version of that old British comedy series where a group of foreigners are learning English in the UK. This is like the French version :) The class composition is something like this - 2 Indian women (including me), 3-4 people from South America and Mexico, 1 Serb, 2 Russians, 4 Arabs, and a couple of eastern Europeans. There is no single common language that the class speaks as yet :) So Prof. Alex teaches the beginner's French class in French!! A very very animated French, to be precise. Like French+dumb charades. For example, "J'aime le chocolat" is accompanied by a 'yumyumyumyumyum' and a tummy rub! And as for the rest of us, each of us speak French with our own unique accents :) Poor Monsieur Alex! (He's quite a linguist though - we've come to realize he teaches English too and probably speaks a few other European languages as well ) But I've realized that this is quite an effective method of teaching. We've quickly developed an ear for the language and we have no choice but to use French to communicate within the class :)

For the love of books :)

Somewhere in her email today was this line - "Sigh! sometimes i wonder y i read those classics...its so hard to ignore the heroes of yore..". I smiled. Because I blame the books too, for many many things :) For things ranging all the way from incurable romanticism to hypochondria. For the rose tinted glasses and the real ones too :) For the love of happy endings and for the depths of misery when things end no-so-happily :(. For being a bit of a drama queen at times. For the total inability to take things at face value. And of course like she said for expecting men (S to be accurate) to be Rhett Butler, Roark, Darcy, and many others all rolled into one :))))

The speed of Truth

It is the instant reponse that forms in our minds. But in the time that the answer is articulated, it has already evolved to be more palatable, polished, or even disingenuous.