Yay!

So tonight was the season finale of "The Amazing Race". It was quite surprising how it turned out but I was quite happy with who won. It was the team I was actually cheering for. I was kind of worried for a while but they pulled through. The other two teams totally annoyed me. So today's favourite thing is having the team you are rooting for win.

What a thoughtful birthday present!

For my last birthday, my sister bought me a 37" flat screen TV. It was awesome and very, very generous. Well, that's what I like to tell people anyway. The truth is that she bought herself a 37" flat screen TV on my birthday. You can see where I may be confused, can't you? Anyway, she gave me her old TV to watch downstairs. I have to say, I enjoy having a TV that I can watch downstairs because I can do things down there while watching it or during commercials without having to worry about when it comes back on. I only tend to watch the TV on Sundays and Mondays. Sundays, because I tend to watch the Amazing Race while she watches The Simpsons, and Mondays, because Castle (a new show starring the awesome Nathan Fillion aka Captain Hammer aka Mal Reynolds...........where was I?) doesn't come on until 10 and I don't really like watching TV that late upstairs because Colette goes to bed earlier than that. I am usually done watching TV by 10 but Mondays, not so much. So, today's favourite thing is having a TV in my room.

It's amazing!

I don't watch a lot of reality shows. In fact, until a few weeks ago, I didn't watch any. For some reason, I started watching The Amazing Race and have really been enjoying it. I like seeing the different countries and seeing what the different challenges will be and how well or badly the different teams handle everything. I don't really have a favourite team yet but some of the teams amaze me at how dense they are.

By the way, this was my 100th post. Wasn't it great?

Bademöglichkeit!

Today was my weekly French class. I really enjoy learning new languages. In university, I took classes in French, Spanish, German, Old English and Cree and really enjoyed myself. I find that learning new languages helps you learn more about your own language because you have to think about language in a new way. I am not really fluent in any language other than English but have a very basic understanding of the construction of other languages. It may also help that I was a Linguistics major so language construction was pretty much what I studied in university, even without the language specific classes. The language that I have the best grasp of (aside from English) is French but that is because I took classes in it from early elementary school through Grade 12 in high school, plus two classes in university, plus living with some French speaking people for a few months. I am no where near bilingual but have a fairly good grasp of it. The class I am taking is pretty basic but it's good because it has a big focus on the pronunciation aspect of it which is my weak point.
I would like to study more of Spanish or German, maybe even Cree but I need to actually get a job first so that I can pay for classes. Other languages would be cool to learn too. I find that when I start to learn new languages, words get stuck in my heard completely out of context. When I first started studying German, the word "Bademöglichkeit" got stuck in my head. I will never forget that that word means 'swimming facility'. Now, if I am ever in a German speaking place and absolutely NEED to go swimming, I will know how to make my desire known as long as that is the only information they need. I could do well on the Amazing Race all of the challenges were at German swimming facilities. No problem getting to the location at all. Though there are probably a limited number of swimming facilities in German speaking countries, and even more limits to the number of activities you could do there. Here they are: swim, dive...that's about it. Maybe learning more German words would be useful after all and, you know, more than one word in other languages as well.