this past week i had so many ideas of things i wanted to post about, but alas my slacker side got the bets of me (well i dont really know if it was my slacker side because i was frantically doing homework and trying to figure out how to upload a mission photo-which took FOREVER- that i was supposed to have dome last week so i guess in a round about way it was my slacker side because if i had done my h-dub when i was supposed i could have blogged. okay that's enough of a side track)
ANYWAYS, i encountered many things that i wanted to share with you.
1. on friday i read this article in the salt lake tribune. anytime i hear anything about breast milk it takes me back to 10th grade english when my teacher was talking to us about how beneficial a 'mommy farm' would be. The article talks about how a california company is selling breast milk that is donated my women (obvi becasue its impossible for a man to donate breast milk) to hospitals. The article talks about the ethics, more or less, of selling this donated mommy milk. I found a few gems in the article while reading:
"A California company is eyeing Utah for its abundance of notoriously health-conscious, breast-feeding moms."
a. notorious: widely and unfavorably known. really, why would health-consciousness ever be considered 'unfavorably known'. could this be because of the word of wizzum that the many latter-day saints support? humm.
b. "Utah mothers breast-feed at rates, well above the national average..." this made me laugh out loud.
c. the article also mentioned how mom donate, sell, and trade their breast milk online. strange? i think yes is the correct answer.
okay thats enough about boob milk. now on to better things (at least in my opinion)
2. La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's most Enchanting Language.
Its a book I'm reading, one of my besties said when she saw it she just had to buy if for me. so sweet! im so glad she did becasue i LOVE it! I'm only about fifty pages in, but man its so good. the author is just talking about how much she loves the italian language, with words and phrases thrown in that are in italian. "everything just sounds better in italian". and she could not be more wrong.
im currently in Ital 322 advanced composition and let me tell you its kicking my butt. sometimes i just get so discouraged becasue i feel like i will never be able to speak this wonderfully beautiful language. i hide the tears that well up in my eyes during class and hope no one will notice what an idiot i am. doubtful. its at times like these when i have to remind myself why i am studying italian. because i love it. thats all (and the men are on the attractive/romantic side). the more i study the more i love it and the more i get frustrated that i am not progressing as much as i would like. but i love it and i seriously cant image my life now if italian is not a part of it. Dianne, the author, helps to remind my why i put myself in this high anxiety situation. so i trek on, not giving up simply becasue i love the language.
here are a few lines from the book that make me smile...
"...a single word in Italian can reveal more than an entire paragraph in English"
"Take, for instance, Tommaseo's entry on Italy's national pastime (present and future): flirting, which translate into fare la civetta, or 'make like an owl'." She then goes on to describe the difference words that italian have to describe the type of fliriting from a civettino, a precociois little boy flattering a pretty woman, to zerbinotto, a fop tpp old for such foolishness.
"A shrewed furbacchione who obtains a learning a coveted building permit for a rectangular, cement-lined hole in his backyard by describing it not as a swimming pool (prohibited by law) but as a storage vat for water that local firefighters might need to douse a blaze"
she also describes congiuntivo as the sexiest verb form.
whats not to love about this book or the italian language. She talks about how one cannot separate the italian language from their culture. i think that is why i love this language so much. its so rich and full or life, love, passion, tragedy...okay thats enough of a rant about my obsession with la bella lingua
there was more i wanted to write but i didnt write down my inspiriations on my tiny post-it so those ideas will float with the wind until they land again.
i hope all of you have a great week.
you can expect more post as i recommitted my self to being a better blogger
ANYWAYS, i encountered many things that i wanted to share with you.
1. on friday i read this article in the salt lake tribune. anytime i hear anything about breast milk it takes me back to 10th grade english when my teacher was talking to us about how beneficial a 'mommy farm' would be. The article talks about how a california company is selling breast milk that is donated my women (obvi becasue its impossible for a man to donate breast milk) to hospitals. The article talks about the ethics, more or less, of selling this donated mommy milk. I found a few gems in the article while reading:
"A California company is eyeing Utah for its abundance of notoriously health-conscious, breast-feeding moms."
a. notorious: widely and unfavorably known. really, why would health-consciousness ever be considered 'unfavorably known'. could this be because of the word of wizzum that the many latter-day saints support? humm.
b. "Utah mothers breast-feed at rates, well above the national average..." this made me laugh out loud.
c. the article also mentioned how mom donate, sell, and trade their breast milk online. strange? i think yes is the correct answer.
okay thats enough about boob milk. now on to better things (at least in my opinion)
2. La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's most Enchanting Language.
Its a book I'm reading, one of my besties said when she saw it she just had to buy if for me. so sweet! im so glad she did becasue i LOVE it! I'm only about fifty pages in, but man its so good. the author is just talking about how much she loves the italian language, with words and phrases thrown in that are in italian. "everything just sounds better in italian". and she could not be more wrong.
im currently in Ital 322 advanced composition and let me tell you its kicking my butt. sometimes i just get so discouraged becasue i feel like i will never be able to speak this wonderfully beautiful language. i hide the tears that well up in my eyes during class and hope no one will notice what an idiot i am. doubtful. its at times like these when i have to remind myself why i am studying italian. because i love it. thats all (and the men are on the attractive/romantic side). the more i study the more i love it and the more i get frustrated that i am not progressing as much as i would like. but i love it and i seriously cant image my life now if italian is not a part of it. Dianne, the author, helps to remind my why i put myself in this high anxiety situation. so i trek on, not giving up simply becasue i love the language.
here are a few lines from the book that make me smile...
"...a single word in Italian can reveal more than an entire paragraph in English"
"Take, for instance, Tommaseo's entry on Italy's national pastime (present and future): flirting, which translate into fare la civetta, or 'make like an owl'." She then goes on to describe the difference words that italian have to describe the type of fliriting from a civettino, a precociois little boy flattering a pretty woman, to zerbinotto, a fop tpp old for such foolishness.
"A shrewed furbacchione who obtains a learning a coveted building permit for a rectangular, cement-lined hole in his backyard by describing it not as a swimming pool (prohibited by law) but as a storage vat for water that local firefighters might need to douse a blaze"
she also describes congiuntivo as the sexiest verb form.
whats not to love about this book or the italian language. She talks about how one cannot separate the italian language from their culture. i think that is why i love this language so much. its so rich and full or life, love, passion, tragedy...okay thats enough of a rant about my obsession with la bella lingua
there was more i wanted to write but i didnt write down my inspiriations on my tiny post-it so those ideas will float with the wind until they land again.
i hope all of you have a great week.
you can expect more post as i recommitted my self to being a better blogger
would you believe me if i said I totally relate to number 2?? Somedays are just so difficult with the language but then i remember how much i enjoy speaking to real italians and for some reason I keep trying. I need to read that book! baci!!
ReplyDeletemommy farm, gross. second of all, I'm so glad you like the book. I really admire you and your determination in learning a second language, not an easy task in any way.
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