Not that I’ve ever had a schedule in any typical sense of the word, but now I will have a very different one for the next month or so, and it will have some spillover effect on my writing and recording here on OCOT. I’m currently in Antigua, Guatemala completing the first of what will be four weeks of intensive immersion Spanish language learning. More on this in an upcoming post. Here are just some related updates for you now.
I suspect that I’ll become more fascinated with languages than I already am and always have been, so be prepared for a focus and theme on languages in many of the postings for awhile. I’m already getting more and more excited and passionate about some of the enormous demands and potential opportunities I see for increasing our multiple language capabilities and competencies at a rate to match the world of exponential change that I see us living in.
Immersion language learning is also very cognitively exhausting (especially when you don’t have a very big cog!), and between my actual “class time” and homework (which is taking up 6-10 hours a day or more), it’s a bit more of a challenge to fit this into what’s supposed to be a part-time job. And so I’ll not be writing the long (lucky you!) or deep articles that have been my custom. That in itself will be a fun change for me (and you too), since I’ll try to do more frequent and shorter postings that are simply meant to make you aware of something new and allow me to just pose some provocative questions based on things I’m pondering at the time.
Who knows, maybe I’ll not only learn Spanish, but I’ll learn to how to talk and write in English with greater brevity and clarity!
Hey, stop that snickering! I can hear you all the way over here in Guatemala!
¡Hasta la próxima vez mis amigos!
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