Language and Music

Today is a good day.

At supper I just sat and basked in the sound of friends speaking Korean. It is good to just sit and know that ideas are flying past your face, but you have no obligation to understand or process or respond to them. You just get to listen to it like instrumental music. And it is beautiful to know that, in fact, they are not speaking a foreign language. They are speaking their own language, the one they don't even have to think about. It must feel good to go to supper and let their mouths spew ideas freely after a long day of classes in English.

Will I miss English next semester? I am sure that I won't be completely removed from English. Many of the students in the program will just be taking beginning Spanish courses. Today at Honors tea we were talking about facebook, which led to a discussion of things that people give up for lent, which led me to think, "Could I give up English for lent?"

Only if I found Keith Green's Albums in Spanish.