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A strange feeling...
Jan. 14th, 2004 06:05 pmWhen I got up this morning, the realization that today was my last day in the office and tomorrow would be my last wakeup for the trip sort of hit me in the chops. It'll be good to get home, at any rate.
I watched Y tu mamá también the other night, both for the purpose of testing my Spanish comprehension (which turns out to be very low) and because the film got a lot of fairly gushy reviews when it came out. My interest in Spanish kept me watching the film; I'm not sure I could have otherwise withstood the tedium.
There is no mistaking this for your typical coming-of-age movie. The young men exhibit all the subtlety of John Belushi in Animal House, albeit without the humor. In the end, the more I got to know these boys, the less I wanted to know them, until at the end, I couldn't have cared less about their respective fates.
The young woman in the movie, who plays the part of the older, more experienced and more aggressive Luisa, is certainly easy to look at, and I could more easily empathize with her plight, but that simply made the movie a one-dimensional exercise in intercutting elements of The Graduate, Love Story, and any of a number of coming-of-age buddy movies to achieve... what? I don't know.
* * * I managed, finally, to listen to all of the Thomas Spanish CDs. The last few seem to be one long lesson on the use of verb tenses, and I'll have to undoubtedly listen to them all several times more.
I managed to try out some Spanish today, as it turns out that some of the new staffers at the client's office speak the language.
* * * The big virtual pot over there in the back corner of the virtual job stove, the one marked "Kazakhstan," is beginning to slowly simmer. My contact left a message on my cell phone to the effect that I should get my passport and other materials in for visa processing. An envelope with said materials is en route via Federal Express as I write this.
(Yes, I remember what happened last time. What are the odds?)
No dates have been mentioned, although if I were to use the timeline from the last go-round as a guide, it'd mean that my departure date is about 7-10 days out. (Please let it not be that soon!)
Paraphrasing Churchill: "I shall be ready."
Cheers...
I watched Y tu mamá también the other night, both for the purpose of testing my Spanish comprehension (which turns out to be very low) and because the film got a lot of fairly gushy reviews when it came out. My interest in Spanish kept me watching the film; I'm not sure I could have otherwise withstood the tedium.
There is no mistaking this for your typical coming-of-age movie. The young men exhibit all the subtlety of John Belushi in Animal House, albeit without the humor. In the end, the more I got to know these boys, the less I wanted to know them, until at the end, I couldn't have cared less about their respective fates.
The young woman in the movie, who plays the part of the older, more experienced and more aggressive Luisa, is certainly easy to look at, and I could more easily empathize with her plight, but that simply made the movie a one-dimensional exercise in intercutting elements of The Graduate, Love Story, and any of a number of coming-of-age buddy movies to achieve... what? I don't know.
I managed to try out some Spanish today, as it turns out that some of the new staffers at the client's office speak the language.
(Yes, I remember what happened last time. What are the odds?)
No dates have been mentioned, although if I were to use the timeline from the last go-round as a guide, it'd mean that my departure date is about 7-10 days out. (Please let it not be that soon!)
Paraphrasing Churchill: "I shall be ready."
Cheers...
