Today wound up being really spiffy. I wound up eating a homemade Chinese lunch at a friends house were she cooked us lunch. It was really good and she said that next week her boyfriend can make a meal for people and apparently he is a even better cook.
Afterwards we played some Durak in the dorms. A little later I just hung around for a bit and watched the time go by at the laundromat.
The best part of today was finally meeting my new roommate. We pretty much just met up in the hallway and talked for hours about pretty much useless stuff (from my point of view) but a lot of French practice. Eventually another roommate showed up and we all sat around and talked some more.
What I like best about my new roommate is that she has an excellent energy to her. Her will to learn French is intense and I see great potential in her ability to progress. She's fantastic and pretty hilarious. Based on some of her confusion I came up with a quote of something she said not the same way she said it but I arranged it to work:
"Je suis moi-même; donc, je suis célibataire."
"I am myself; therefore, I am single."
The premise behind this quote is that if you are single you are yourself, otherwise if you are in a relation you loose some of yourself to that other person and thus can't truly be yourself. In other words if you fall in love with someone you are no longer yourself because you become a person in love.
Anyway, you probably had to be there to find the same level of amusement with this statement as we did. One thing that I have learned form trying to learn French is that you can really communicate a lot even if the language is hard to pull off. The most important part about communication is humor, once you can get a good hold on humor to can bypass a lot of language barriers.
2 comments:
That's a pretty awesome quote. Did she make that up?
No, but close, I turned it into something more quotable.
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