SpainTESOL

for i am not gone, nor am i less inclined to post here...

the class was 7 but is now 6. for if man is 5, then the devil is 6. and god is 7.

who knows what i am getting at. this keyboard is awful though. whatever. i am three days so far into this thing, which shall enable me to teach english at some point. donno when, but hopefully soon.

in any case, there are 15 minutes before class begins again. and then, then, i think there is something to do with teaching. and apparently there is a TP schedule. and my group will be Emily and Liz, while my mom is with Olof and Jordi.

i will describe later what the class is like, perhaps in my other blogs, since i am writing in there as well about the day to day.

david kline

alkie no.2 says: (06:54:05)
did i tell you about david
pink vinyl says: (06:54:22)
nop
alkie no.2 says: (06:54:40)
well
alkie no.2 says: (06:54:48)
ok we had this class
alkie no.2 says: (06:54:49)
science
pink vinyl says: (06:55:06)
yes science
alkie no.2 says: (06:55:10)
and we'd come in several minutes late
alkie no.2 says: (06:55:17)
singing bohemian rhapsody
alkie no.2 says: (06:55:35)
we'd do the whole song and then hump the skeleton behind mr. miller'sdesk
alkie no.2 says: (06:55:37)
or each other
alkie no.2 says: (06:56:00)
and there was this one time in the library
alkie no.2 says: (06:56:07)
where we were sitting there
alkie no.2 says: (06:56:10)
acting normal
alkie no.2 says: (06:56:17)
and there were lots of people around
alkie no.2 says: (06:56:30)
so he'd throw me down to the floor
alkie no.2 says: (06:56:45)
and start humping me right there

You are my center when I spin away...

I love you, Ira.

There truly is nothing more perfect, is there? Love at its utmost, its most spontaneous, its most undeniable, there is nothing to explain. Yes, nothing.

I love how unexplainable love is.

the ability to pwn...

"the ability to PWN does not relate exclusively to how the PWNee reacts, but more to the ego boost that the PWNer subsequently feels" (anonymous)

first step: realize how much of an idiot you really are
second step: bring it down to your level
third step: rule the playground

a long time ago, radiohead fans sought solace where they might share information of radiohead, share their songs, and make friends. tall, small, thin, fat, old, young, intelligent, dumb.... the first 6 translate only to general chat or to the atease mugshots thread, where 'we love to see who we're stalking', apparently.

intelligence on the other hand is what distinguishes the posts here, and makes atease worthwhile, in my opinion. of course, we can't all be intelligent, and having it be exclusively that would be disappointing. there's no sense that one has to speak at one's level. yet the member who feels as mentally inadequate as a similarly estranged individual who isn't getting any sex based on the size of his penis feels he has to then bring the benchmark down by stamping out those who make him feel inadequate. a battle of egos then becomes this ridiculous pwning battle wherein the PWNer shoots out uninspired irrational remarks against the 'rationally-equipped' individual who made him feel like the mentally deficient handicap he is in a manner befitting the lowly bully he is, with his small penis hanging out, his semen triumphantly being sprayed into the eyes of his conquest.

and apparently when it comes down to personal attacks, there need not be truth, or merely distorting the truth is enough for the cronies to guffaw at the cumshot victim. there is no higher purpose but to bring the level down to what is adequate for them. they'd rule the playground in the same way they failed to in elementary school when they were insecure, weak, dumb children, taunted by other insecure, weak, dumb children who got the better of them, nonetheless.

ateaseweb members have of course responded quite perfectly to them. the irrationality (befitting that of any radical right wing politician today in an era of unreason), they actually get away with stating utter bullshit, as uninspired as that which they learned on urbandictionary.com, while the desperate pleas for rational peace love and understanding of the victim become the same sort of taunts that the victim would not let get to them in the beginning. it's a dog-eat-dog world in here, and the PWNers have won. and they shall continue feeding into their supermassive black hole of an ego when the dim light fades away (some say this might be the flickering of brain cells as they die).

really, atease has so much to be proud of when it comes down to this.

oh and if anyone responds 'tl;dr' or 'tityb', it just goes to prove what an unsurmountable idiot you are, and the definitive archetype is this then for them.

have a good day. :)

Language Essay

When we were very young, we came into this world seeing things but not knowing the names. We discovered that there were words when associating them, so we remembered them, so we could tell our parents exactly what we wanted once crying failed us. We face this same frightening prospect when we face a different language. We decide to stay or not to stay, at least when not knowing the language is detrimental to one's survival for more than a week. Learning a language is merely wanting to learn, having the ability to learn and having the time to learn.
It becomes tiring when we have to resort to sign language or pointing, especially when we face doing this long-term, so we decide we need to learn the language so we can survive, for the most part. We are in a situation where we cannot communicate with peers, and need to be able to say more than what’s necessary to buy groceries at La Boqueria. Essentially this is the situation where we find ourselves motivated to learn.
We go into a school, already knowing many things in our own language and not much in this new language. In a way, we have to anticipate not being able to translate every word from our language to this one, especially in the first class. We just have to stay open to it, and not have expectations, except that we'll learn how to associate things with the words (kind of in the same way we had to when we were young and didn't know the words for the things we wanted). When I arrived in Barcelona, I came wide-eyed, taking everything in, associating the stores with what they sold, and figuring out that the signs next to the produce said that the onions we're actually called cebollas here.
We can figure that we'll figure out more about the words if we have someone telling us how to associate these words in the most convenient way. Still, without the proper time and patience necessary, we'll find ourselves lagging behind. In my experience, if there's something stressful going on, it's going to be very hard to devote as much time to learning anything. We must be prepared to go into this ready, our minds empty and eager instead of brimming with the useless assumptions that'll make any more learning fruitless. We give ourselves time because otherwise we'll be very lost for a lot longer.
Learning a language takes us through the steps of being motivated to learn, being in the right mindset and having the time to learn. Each time we do this, we have a tool to go into this country or place where we have to know the language. Consider it a rebirth when we can relate what we see to different words in different languages as if we had known them our whole lives.