Monthly Archives: August 2009

08.15.09
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Conversation in Two Languages

Today I had lunch at McDonalds…that’s not the point of this post.  During lunch, there were these two guys at a table next to me.  They were chatting and laughing.  BUT…when one guy spoke, he spoke in English.  When the other guy spoke, he spoke in Spanish.  And so on and so forth, they were having a full on conversation with one person speaking English and the other speaking Spanish!

At first I was thinking, wow that’s so weird and kind of cool.  But when I thought about it, I guess I can have that type of conversation with my parents too and probably have many times.  I’ll speak English and they’ll speak Chinese.

And so it made me wonder, if there are a lot of people who can understand certain languages pretty well but can’t speak it – but oddly (I guess it’s not so odd when it comes down to it) enough, they can converse like normal.  It was pretty weird but also kinda neat at the same time.

08.11.09
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Permanent Hair Loss Solution

Have you seen those commercials on TV advertising the Permanent Hair Loss Solution?  I think the use of wording there is a bit ambiguous.  It almost seems like they are advertising that they can help you permanently lose your hair!!  But really, what they are trying to advertise is that if you have hair loss – they have a permanent solution to remedy your hair loss.  They should really re-think their wording.

08.10.09
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New Beginnings II

A poor title I know…so much for creativity.

It’s been about a week since I’ve embarked on my new adventure!  So far, it’s alright.  I think it’ll definitely take a lot of getting used to.  It seemed so unreal at first – everything seemed to happen so quickly!  But when God opens doors, you got to take that leap of faith and go with the flow.  Everything is so new and so different – from just the day to the day, to the resources, to the whole experience itself of meeting new people and being on the “other side” of making big decisions and really taking ownership of things.

I feel like right now even though things aren’t super smooth that once I get the groundwork set up, it’ll be easy day to day monitoring.  It’s the groundwork that’s the hard part.  I think being where I am now is a great opportunity and experience for the future.  It definitely gives me the exposure and experience to…more.

I hope and pray that things continue to be smooth even though I’ll be gone for about 2 weeks.  I’m also hoping and praying to make some new friends or at least people to just sort of get to know better (more than just the day to day, hi, bye, deal).