As I'm sitting here listening to my 1980's hits playlist on the computer, I remembered that I should blog. I'm busier academically than I ever have been.

This year I have so many languages rolling around in my head... For my language credits at Yale, I'm studying Italian, and that's 5 days every week, only taught in Italian (no English allowed...even to ask a question in class). In a matter of three and a half weeks, I have gone from knowing nothing in Italian to writing three different essays in Italian, and being able to talk and understand my roommate who is from Milan when we talk. The language program here is really rigorous, but it teaches the languages phenomenally well.

On top of that, I'm incredibly afraid of losing my ability to speak Spanish fluently because  I am learning Italian and the two are so similar. So, I end up trying to read the news and watch a couple short news programs in Spanish every day or two.

And then on top of that, I am also taking Danish language classes privately taught through a language fellowship I won. I meet with my teacher twice per week, and he is already making me write an essay in Danish. That is incredibly difficult...I can understand the spoken language pretty well, but I have a really hard time writing my thoughts out in the language... so I suppose writing in Danish regularly is a good thing to do.

So it's a daily battle to continually hone my language skills, and switch from thinking in english to Danish to Italian to Spanish. My roommates and I speak Spanish in the suite so that we don't forget it, so that helps.

I also wanna post a sunset I took from my bedroom window last week.