OK, let’s start with a very un-funny joke I heard during my European trip last summer. Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages? A: Tri-lingual. Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? A: Bi-lingual. Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language? A: An American. Probably the…
Last summer, I spent a few days visiting friends in Norway, a couple I had met in 2012 on one of the trans-Siberian trains running between Moscow and Beijing. She teaches English to young people in their final year of what we would call high school and I volunteered to come to her class and…
As you may recall, I had a camera problem toward the end of my recent European trip … my laptop wouldn’t recognize my camera, which meant I couldn’t get my photos out of the camera to post them here. Turns out the cable connecting the two was faulty, so it was a mercifully cheap fix….
But first, I am sorry to report that the connection between camera and computer is still not working and I have been unable to get any help to fix the problem. For at least the next few posts, therefore, I shall revert to the verbal and leave the visuals to your mind’s eye. I had…