Personal Meanderings of Joshua Seek
My friend Sarah Gonski writes on her blog about a recent experience with Meetup.com and a Spanish learning group:
The Mister and I have been working hard on our Spanish. Both of us have always wanted to speak another language, and we currently nurture dreams for the not-too-distant future that include spending lots of time in Spain. Anyway, so we're at the point in our learning where what we really need are live conversations, mainly to help us improve our confidence.
So we found a few Spanish meetup groups on meetup.com (by the way, meetup.com is a little like the public library; awesome resource that not enough people use. We are in two Spanish meetups and a photography group and they have thousands of groups on all different themes: cooking, scrapbooking, reading, football, stay-at-home bilingual moms, and so on. In the internet age, there's truly no excuse for being bored or not having any place to meet new friends. So go on, and go forth).So last night was our first night at this particular Spanish learning group. We timidly gave our competency level at beginner/intermediate, which turned out to be a mistake, as we're probably more like intermediate/advanced for this particular group. I don't feel braggy saying that, because I know that everyone here knows the feeling of fitting into a smaller size jeans that they thought they were, and this was exactly like that, so you all understand.So we ended up doing a lot of worksheets, which we were a little bored with, to be honest, until we recieved a new list of phrases to translate.You're very nice. You're great.
At this point I'm thinking: "Oh, how nice! We're learning to be friendly."You're very attractive. I'm interested in you. I like you very much."Well, that's a bit forward." Do you like me too? Can I kiss you? Will you take me home?"Hang on..."
My name is Joshua Seek. I am pursuing a degree in sustainable business management and I'm interested in urban development. I also am a part of the emerging conversations on spirituality. I'll be writing on these conversations, as well as urban development and transportation issues, and random things that interest me.
My name is Joshua Seek. I am pursuing a degree in sustainable business management and I'm interested in urban development. I also am a part of the emerging conversations on spirituality. I'll be writing on these conversations, as well as urban development and transportation issues, and random things that interest me.
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