That word up there is “coffee”, btw. A very important word, always but also one that took me some time to get accustomed to in my Arabic vocabulary. Someone asked me, a few days ago, if I could say a bunch of things in Arabic now and I laughed. It’s been, what… three and a […]
marHaba! The quarter began mid last week and this Monday marks the beginning of the first full week of classes. My classes are all interesting and fun and OH MY GOD, I mentioned that I’m learning Arabic, right? On one hand, it’s no big thing – this is what I do! I learn languages! I […]
It is well known that I’m obsessed with languages. Most people in my circle understand why a person would be, but occasionally someone will ask why – why do I want to speak Arabic? German? Czech? Spanish? *insert any language you’d like here* Saw an only slightly cheesy but true post on Tumblr that explains […]
I’m so glad we found this Park on our last trip to SB, what amazing views! We were hot and had been walking a lot, so I wanted to find a nice drive or viewpoint to relax for a bit. I literally googled “best view Santa Barbara” and Franceschi was one of the top three […]
Hey, guess what! I’m not just learning German now, I’m learning Arabic, too! I am not entirely sure how that came about other than that Arabic is another language that’s been at the top of my list to learn for many, many years. And I expect Arabic to be quite useful if what I want […]
In my art history class a few quarters ago, the instructor showed us a few videos that related to the various topics we were covering in medieval art history. One of them was a trailer for a documentary called “Florence Fight Club.” (I highly recommend watching it, it’s amazing.) The documentary is about “Calcio Storico”, […]
We arrived to our lovely Airbnb flat in Firenze (Florence)! A bottle of chilled Prosecco was waiting for us in the fridge which we cracked open on the terrace.
Tillamook! I was really amused to see a little package of Tillamook cheese in the meal during the flight from Newark to Munich (where we were then connecting to Florence, Italy). Tillamook is from Oregon. A little Pacific Northwest love in German. I haven’t taken a really long flight in awhile… uff, 7 hours was rough. […]
First leg of a trip I just returned from… SEA > PHL. And then PHL > FLR. Seemed kind of silly to be buying swag at the Philly airport when I was going to Florence, Italy but ya know… Swatch is Swiss so that counts for something, no? 🙂
A friend suggested we check out Intrigue Chocolate the last time I was around Pioneer Square. Oh, my. I left with a couple boxes of truffles that I would LIKE to make last for a week or more (AT LEAST!) but we are high end chocolate fiends in this house. We’ll be lucky if 24 […]
