So, I'm going to stop playing around and learn Afrikaans...
My dad is fluent, so I might have him help me out a bit...also, I looked at some software on the interent...learning Afrikaans will better prepare me for if I study in South Africa next spring...who knows, maybe I will like it there and just stay (my dad has dual citizenship, and for some reason I can become a citizen sort of easily...)
I searched on facebook for people who shared my surname and found like 150 people...I added a bunch as my friends and sent them messages...no close relatives, but a lot of us share an ancestor by the name of Hercules...from 1687...
How does this apply to fiction writing? Well, in that class, I learned that you can marry like your fifth cousin or something...yeah, I'm not going to lie, some of the du Preezs out there are pretty hot.
Anyway, this one guy from South Africa wants to have some kind of reunion...he is 22 and is training to be a helicopter pilot...and wants it to be huge! crazy! and one week long! I'm down. I just need to scrap some money together...
My "cousins" have cool names, like Ankia, Elmari, Riekert, Zita, Karlien, Genevieve, Cheneen, Liska, Cairalee, Eldred, Dirk, Gerhardus, Etienne, Bardett, Innelize...
And what names are there around here? John, Joe, Sam, Sarah, Lauren, Chris, Alex. Are these cool names? I think not...
Pot, not marijuana, but coffee.
No parking, but I break the law.
Sporting the jersey. On the Phone. In the wind.
At work. Deep in thought.
Desperado, bitches!
Double bogie : (
Road signs are often confounding!
Just like Cortez
They were THIS BIG!
Across the table
My desk, where good things happen
Golfing it up.
2 comments:
Congrats on your decision. I'd be down for helping you find materials if you want it.
I really need to get to learning another language. I know Spanish well enough to get by, and if I'm surrounded by Spanish speaking for a long enough time, I'm practically fluent. But I want to speak Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Arabic as well. Communication is important. The other day, a guy came into Best Buy and I sold him a TV. He was Korean, and one of our workers spoke Korean, so he translated. Later the guy came back with a problem, and my translator was gone. We drew pictures so we could understand each other. It made me understand why cavemen (cavepeople?) drew cave paintings. They were simply having conversations.
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