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setraI'm mostly here because I started writeing a fan e-mail to Janet Kagan and ended up with...
It was two years ago that my step-mother gave me a copy of Mirabile and I loved it. Just this year, she gave me a copy of Hellspark and I fell in love. Hellspark helped me realize what has always bothered me about other people learning and teaching foreign languages: they teach usage and pronounciation but not culture (and not your proxemics and kinesetics either!). That revelation led me to an even greater one: of all the things that I've always wanted to do in life, and all the people I've admired. It's always involved a multi-culturality, look at any of the people I've looked up to in my life: (thinks back as early as she can go) Dax - one person, with the memories of many and one of my favorite traits in her was her knowledge of the Klingon; Madeline - a woman who could plend in in Russia, France, Germany and Belgium. Who knew everything about social situations; Ivanova - with the strangth of her russian background and the ability to work with all the ambasadors of a dozen or more alien races; Shenra and Leandra (not many people will understand this probably) - both highly intellegent, with the knowledge and diplomatic skills (in most cases) to do whatever was necessary; my own Setra, who grew into someone I could admire and aspire to be, who could blend into any situation, speak a dozen languages and literally meld into the culture of wherever she went; and finally Hellspark's Tochol, a woman that was the space-faring version of everything I'd never been able to express Setra into being, though she should have been. After all that, I realized that what I want to do more than anything is be like that, to be able to speak and understand the languages of those around me where ever I go - and in the space program that could be vitally important. Being a collge student, I feel that this is a valuable revelation and a good time to have it...
Anyway, that's my rant for the moment. Off to try to catch Austin after the movie he went to at seven. And here's a desperate plea, is there anyone that can run me to my house during the day on friday?
Bishonen: ...
Bishojo: Tochol and Maaya-sama
It was two years ago that my step-mother gave me a copy of Mirabile and I loved it. Just this year, she gave me a copy of Hellspark and I fell in love. Hellspark helped me realize what has always bothered me about other people learning and teaching foreign languages: they teach usage and pronounciation but not culture (and not your proxemics and kinesetics either!). That revelation led me to an even greater one: of all the things that I've always wanted to do in life, and all the people I've admired. It's always involved a multi-culturality, look at any of the people I've looked up to in my life: (thinks back as early as she can go) Dax - one person, with the memories of many and one of my favorite traits in her was her knowledge of the Klingon; Madeline - a woman who could plend in in Russia, France, Germany and Belgium. Who knew everything about social situations; Ivanova - with the strangth of her russian background and the ability to work with all the ambasadors of a dozen or more alien races; Shenra and Leandra (not many people will understand this probably) - both highly intellegent, with the knowledge and diplomatic skills (in most cases) to do whatever was necessary; my own Setra, who grew into someone I could admire and aspire to be, who could blend into any situation, speak a dozen languages and literally meld into the culture of wherever she went; and finally Hellspark's Tochol, a woman that was the space-faring version of everything I'd never been able to express Setra into being, though she should have been. After all that, I realized that what I want to do more than anything is be like that, to be able to speak and understand the languages of those around me where ever I go - and in the space program that could be vitally important. Being a collge student, I feel that this is a valuable revelation and a good time to have it...
Anyway, that's my rant for the moment. Off to try to catch Austin after the movie he went to at seven. And here's a desperate plea, is there anyone that can run me to my house during the day on friday?
Bishonen: ...
Bishojo: Tochol and Maaya-sama
