Despite a busy last two days including attending Mom's graduation ceremony and endless checking of myAccess for grades, I've managed to get a few things done to prepare for Europe. Through church friends, I have a place to crash for an hour or two a short walk from the airport in Geneva in between my flight into Geneva and then out to Venice. I ordered some "light" reading (read: physics GRE prep) for the plane. And I emailed my cousin, Francesca.
Now, you may ask why emailing my cousin made the list of fait accompli. Well, I hadn't emailed her thus far because - if I remember right - she's not fluent in English. So, I emailed her in Italian, which I don't speak or read (yet), and tried to do it properly. The result? 60 minutes later, with the help of Italian grammar websites, an Italian-English dictionary, online verb conjugators and (when I started to lose hope) Google language tools, I had 80 words and was satisfied enough to hit "send."
The first lessons I learn in Europe won't be physics, they'll be communication!
Now, you may ask why emailing my cousin made the list of fait accompli. Well, I hadn't emailed her thus far because - if I remember right - she's not fluent in English. So, I emailed her in Italian, which I don't speak or read (yet), and tried to do it properly. The result? 60 minutes later, with the help of Italian grammar websites, an Italian-English dictionary, online verb conjugators and (when I started to lose hope) Google language tools, I had 80 words and was satisfied enough to hit "send."
The first lessons I learn in Europe won't be physics, they'll be communication!
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