An unpleasant jorney
I am alone at home . My son has gone to school, my husband is attending a meeting now. I do not have to fight for control of the computer at least. We have only one pc and when they are at home I must wrestle control of it from them.
I am suprised that I have received so many comments. It is superb. Thank you ! I really enjoy reading them. Tears came to my eyes while I was reading my daughter´s comment. I have been touched.
Every Tuesday I take accounting course. It takes from 4 p.m. to half past 7. Taking part in this course is quite tiresome. Yesterday I was in a hurry to send my blog and attend this course when Csilla has registered on the computer. I could only say to her: hi! She moved from the hall to a shared house with her mates on 1st July. Unfortunately, they have not had the connect to the internet yet. If she wants to write me an e-mail or if she wants to have a chat over the computer she will have to go to a library. The problem is that she is working almost every day and she is able to go to the library when she has a day off. Maybe we will not have any chat until we see each other on Saturday.
I am into British music and I am glad when I understand several words in English. I have never sung along a song because I am not talented. If I sung every members of my family would run out of the world. I like to croon rather.
I would like to tell you that why I started to study English three years ago. I think my story is quite interesting. When my daughter was 14 years old, she started to write e-mails to girls and boys from all over the world in order to improve her language skills in English. One of them, a young boy from England, sent replies every other day. They became very good friends and he decided to visit us in Slovakia two years later. We did not have any problems at home because my daugter translated everything that I needed and they wanted to speak mainly to each other and not to me. The problem comes up when he was going home. At that time Slovakia does not have a direct flight to London. He was flying home from Austria. The airport is about 150 km away from our house. My daughter could not come with us because her passport was at the US embassy in order for her to get a visa. It means that we / my husband and I/ took him to the airport to Austria. It takes about one and a half hour to get there. We were sitting in the car silent. My husband and I did not want to speak with each other in Hungarian because we thought that it is rude. This journey was very unpleasant. In addition, I could not say goodbay to him. We only hugged each other and waved. In a crack I diceded to study English. This young man has viseted us three times since then and nowadays my daughter keeps in touch with him. I would happy if he visited us again.
In the meantime my family has arrived. I must serve lunch. I did not have to cook today because we have some leftover food. As I see it, we must not waste food whilst other people starve. Do not you think so?
Thanks once again for writing comments to me. See you tomorrow.
Anita
Comments
Hi Anita! Thanks for your story! I really like reading about your life. I think you are a sweet person and intelligent as well. I mean, how many mums start to study an other language to communicate with the daughter's friend? I know You started also for yourself, to open your mind and that's because I said you are intelligent. I think English is really important to communicate with people from all over the world and to open our mind. I totally agree with your last comment...there are too many people who are starving. Nowadays we waste a lot of food and I really appreciate your idea. I think you are exciting about next saturday!!!! I look forward to reading about you tomorrow!!! have a good evening and night, Anita! With love, Rosalba
Hi Anita! I find this very interesting: My mother has also been studying English for about 3 years, just like you. And just like Csilla, I study in UK. And I am going home to visit my family exactly on this Saturday!! Such a coincidence, isn't it? Moreover, you are from Slovakia and I am from Slovenia, which sounds pretty similar. Has it ever happened to you that someone had mistaken Slovakia for Slovenia? It happens to me all the time!
Anita, isn't it interesting how the Internet has connected the world? You're learning English because you could not converse with your daughter's friend from the United Kingdom -- whom she met via e-mail trying to learn English. Now you are improving your English by blogging? Ain't that a hoot!
Wonderful. I can feel your excitement about Csilla's arrival thru your writing. I also liked the reason you decided to learn English. What a touching story. You have certainly done a terrific job with English and it is amazing that you have done so well in only three years. I know I could not do nearly as well if I tried to learn Hungarian. I look forward to tomorrow's blog.
Hello Anita, Nice to hear about the reason why you start learning english. I also go through the comment of ur daughter Csilla, Its great that she is coming to meet the world's best mom. Hope she get internet connected very soon. Egerly waiting to read more about you both. Bye4now
what a good motivation for learning English!!!! it sounds your daily life is very hectic.i do agree with you that we must not waste food.by the way,we live on rice in Korea.How about you?
you said that you are into British misic but have never sung along a song. But I strongly recommend you doing it, for once, and you will enjoy it. Though my buddies would always hush me, I still keep on singing--making noises exactly, cuz I love it.
Nice to meet you Anita!! I'm auniversity student now. My major is architecture but I like to study English because I believe it enables us to communicate everywhere. By the way I have the same experience with you. About 7 years ago one French girl came to my house as a homestay student, when I was a junior high school student. In Japan we start English class from junior high school so I had stuied it a little and I could have speak it, but I could hardly talk with her. I was frustrated, since then I started to study English in earnest. So I guess bad memories will make us start something to solve it.
That's first time when I read Ur post. I think Your idea was great! I hope my mum will try to be as U... Love Magda
Hi Tina! What a similarity! It is really quaint. I think you are as brave as my daughter.Have a good flight and enjoy spending time with your family!
Hi Tina and everybody!This is the fist English blog i have read.I'm studying English in Nottingham.Everything is very boring.Sometime i want to give up.But now when i read your writing,i feel better and want to improve my English.Anyway thank you Tina.I'll visit your blog later.
Actually you wrote good article,and this my opinion about your topic because you started learning english for good reason because you want understand the person who is coming to visit her daughter.
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