Today's lyric:
"Farewell all my family
Don't you know I mean you so well
Please appreciate I must make a break
Just to see what I can do
The stage is set, so understand
I can't hide in the wings no more.
I've got to go now - it's no use me staying home."
Rod Stewart: "Farewell"
From the album: "Smiler"
Number One Son seems determined to come back home from Cornwall - after the summer - and get a place in Uni. Despite having failed his A-levels, through sheer lack of drive to pass.
He certainly has the wit and intelligence to do better than he did first time around, but it'll be interesting to see how, after nearly two years of travelling* he can settle to the regime of study and schedule?
Mrs.D. and I may find ourselves involved in the process? Now, I fancy to learn Greek (beyond the usual 'Efharisto' and 'Kalimera' tourist phrases).
Anyone able to recommend the best way to do it? Is 'listening to tapes/cd's etc' still the favoured route? I have time to do it while commuting in/out, but it'd be a tad self-conscious repeating it back to a non-comprehending carriage-full of other travellers. Or is there no substitute for listening to someone actually speak it and learning by rote?
When I studied German (to A-level) there was a British lad who'd lived in Germany for a few years and could literally speak like a native - he dominated the oral lessons because, of course, the tutor could brush up on his own verbal skills - but the kid couldn't write it down to save his life. I could never understand how that was possible?
Wonder if I can 'persuade' him down the languages route...
* Bumming about semi-aimlessly
# posted by Mr.D. @ 8:24 AM
Drinking and Driving (but clearly not simultaneously)
