Comments on Unbeached Whale: Bloody Sunday

That damn screenplay has been following me from ho...

2007-08-20T19:51:00.000-05:00

That damn screenplay has been following me from house to house, continent to continent for years. I have not worked on it much because I was busy this past year trying to settle into a path.

I originally came back to NYC to become an ESL teacher. Because of some paperwork and communications bumps (this word has new meaning after the mining fiasco) I had to wait to start the program a year later. Which was fine. I tried to apply to a grad. program at an Ivory institution during this off time, but it just did not workout, though I learned somethings about myself in the process.

So, now I am at Lehman College in the Bronx. It is great. I like going to school in the community that I both study and want to serve. So my course work is for a MA in Education for teaching ESL. It is nice. I would not have gotten to know linguistics and the rules of language acquisition in such a formalized way if I went on for a Ph.D. in History. So, things are changing for me in a very measured pace.

I wish I had time to write creatively, but the past two years have been about something else all together different. I started another blog called Beached Bones to jump start my heart concerning writing and NYC . . . the way it used to be for me.

Aber, da gibts mehr zu meiner Geschicte. Spaeter machen wir Zeit zu sprechen. Wann reisst Du nach der Tri-State?

So where are you studying these days? How goes th...

2007-08-20T18:26:00.000-05:00

So where are you studying these days? How goes that screenplay/play you were working on? Wie geht's?

"Just Sunday morning."Good point. I do not like Su...

2007-08-15T11:01:00.000-05:00

"Just Sunday morning."

Good point. I do not like Sunday afternoon or evening unless I do something special. So I end up not liking the whole day. But the mornings are great, I am going to pay them more attention, magnify, amplify. :-)

Btw, does that show on Facebook profiles?

2007-07-31T19:46:00.000-05:00

Btw, does that show on Facebook profiles?

I remember being an obedient thing myself at 3. Me...

2007-07-31T19:10:00.000-05:00

I remember being an obedient thing myself at 3. Memory may be a tricky thing.

You only learn to spell at 5, it is said, but suddenly it seems that with early education memories might possibly be recorded. There are many ways to remember. And none of them need overlap. Or maybe they do need overlap for them to be clear.

I remember noticing, when I was acquiring language...

2007-07-26T01:02:00.000-05:00

I remember noticing, when I was acquiring language, how it was changing my experience. I had memories that were only sense memories, not articulated through language, and then other more recent memories, often of the same or similar events, now articulated through language. I marveled at how the acquisition of language had changed both the memory and the experience itself.

That is an interesting thought andey. I don't reme...

2007-07-25T12:22:00.000-05:00

That is an interesting thought andey.

I don't remember talking or articulating this memory through language, I remember the sensation. I think I might have bitten my tongue, or had to get used to eating tough food that my father was giving me. Possibly table food I should not have been having.

I remember him giving my sister peanuts when she had only four teeth also, and she had a stern look of concentration on her face while chewing.

Baleine, that is amazing, remembering when you had...

2007-07-24T15:33:00.000-05:00

Baleine, that is amazing, remembering when you had only 4 teeth! I remember teething but I do not remember what it was like to have only 4 teeth.

This is very very confusing. Yet interesting. You ...

2007-07-24T14:03:00.000-05:00

This is very very confusing. Yet interesting.

You can have memory even if you cannot command the words to make up for a mythical long-lost laguage.

It's yet more interesting to have language, current and past, on recordings. In the shape of tape, it makes up good Christmas and Halloween motives.

Good bongey one, Professor Acero and Bleached Whale.

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No, I don't remember acquiring the words, but I do...

2007-07-24T11:45:00.000-05:00

No, I don't remember acquiring the words, but I do remember pointing.

And, I remember my mother used my favorite song, Melba Moore's This Is It, to help me form my first sentence on paper when I was three. Then I was off to the races.

Strangely enough, yesterday we were talking about Dominican and Southern food and I proudly exclaimed that my father used to feed us pig ears, and that I remember trying to chew them with my only set of four teeth positioned in the front of my mouth standing in my booster chair.

Must have been in my linguistic pre-production phase.

At the time I thought pig ears were interesting, and better sprinkled with pepper and salt than boiled alone.

Do you remember learning how to talk?I do - it was...

2007-07-24T01:33:00.000-05:00

Do you remember learning how to talk?
I do - it was interesting, but difficult and frustrating. But I think this is why I have the patience to learn foreign languages: I remember that acquiring the first language was slow and sort of hellish, but that it got easier the longer I stayed immersed.