1. Are you feeling more reset, restart, or full speed ahead as we move into May? Tell us why.
I rather feel like a snail ! As April was nearly summer like, May will be like autumn, the weather has become like a certain politician. Moody.
full speed ....
When we were a family, we had our main meal at 7 pm, because during the day we were working and our son was in school. Now here I eat the main meal at noon, and supper is at 5.30 (difficult to get used to after 60 years) Supper I eat at 7, earlier I have no appetite
4.What's the last thing you fell down a rabbit hole investigating?
I suppose that I am too old to fall in rabbit holes ! Can't remember anything..
5. And now for a question from the book Marilyn (Memphis Bridges) gave me...
At what are you 'self-taught?'
Languages. German was my mothertongue, so I learned it automatically at school. I also learned English at school for nine years. But I never became fluent, that came naturally a bit later, because I worked for an American company. I couldn't speak French at all, and I learned it at a French business school—or rather, I didn't really learn it; I just picked it up when my friends talked together. When you have to speak, you don't think for long. Italian was the last language I learned. I fell in love with an Italian, and when we were in Italy visiting his family, I absolutely wanted to understand what they were saying about me. Curiosity is a means to an end, after all. It wasn't long before I was speaking Italian. I really can't say that I learned vocabulary or paid attention to grammar; it all came naturally. My grandson, at 15, already speaks three languages: Dutch (at school and with his mother), French with his father, and English with his father's colleagues' children. I even learned to write, don't ask me how.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Thanks to the nice weather, I feel on holidays, I enjoy our park, I have no special thoughts for the moment and our staff too. Isn't it nice to have the lunch break in a beautiful park on wooden tables with bench.
Dear Ingrid, your paintings are gorgeous, dear friend! I eat at 5 to 5:30 p.m. and I am 69 now. This was the time my parents and I had supper when I was a little girl, and decades and decades later, this is the time I still eat! LOL! However, I only eat breakfast and supper...no lunch. In the early afternoon I have yogurt, that's it. Not a meal. So at 5 p.m. I am hungry.
ReplyDeleteMy mother tongue is English...I was born in Montreal and have lived here all my life. I am fluent in French. Spoken, written and I understand it and read it.
Not 100%, but enough that French people tell me that my French is excellent!
Your photos are beautiful, as always.
I wish I had persevered more with languages.
ReplyDeleteI'm envious of your language abilities. I muddle through some French, but I don't get the practice I need to keep it up to any significant degree. I like the same music : )
ReplyDeleteYour paintings are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHow interesting about the languages you've learned and the story behind that. My mother tongue is actually German too - but a Low German dialect. However, I started learning English at a very young age because everyone around us spoke only English. My parents usually slipped back into German at home so I grew up understanding both, but I SPOKE German less and less as I grew up. I'm relearning German now, just because I want to. :-)
Hope you're having a great week!
It's good to be able to eat outside, especially if someone else is providing the food!
ReplyDeleteArt? well, I like to paint, but not pictures. I paint furniture and faded garden gnomes.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame you do not paint any longer. But you still have an eye for art, sculptures and a finding a good scene in your photographs.
ReplyDeleteMaybe one day, when it is nice and warm out, you could try a little water colour in that lovely park?
Erin