I underestimate myself SO MUCH, like when I’m watching a movie in english without captions, or watching an awarding ceremony live and people aroune me are all like “lol do you understand this?” and I’m like “yeah, it’s easy, it’s only english!”
But then it clicks
English courses cost around $350 per month (good ones)
Private teacher will charge like R$80 for ONE HOUR of conversation
not everyone has the money (I never did)
or the energy (thanks God for giving me this one at least)
but learning english by myself was something so easy for me that when people compliment me I’m all like “psh, it wasn’t that hard!” but I AM BILINGUAL.
I mean, my english is not perfect, but I can read 400 pages, write small texts, listen to natives and understand them, I can actually speak.
And I’ve done this BY MYSELF, so yes, this is a big thing.
It’s an entire new language, I should value myself more.
I just started writing a post about my thought of how this new splinter actually fits very neatly (if accidentally IMO) in the progression of the splinters that came before him (that I’m aware of anyway) but it somehow evolved into a monster of a post of me analyzing past splinters and now I’m not even halfway through and I’m already pretty sure it’s way too long and no one will be interested in reading it anyways…
Thank you! I’ll keep writing writing and I hope I’ll post it eventually!
however since I’m already almost a thousand words in and I’m still not done with 80’s Splinter – I 100% agree @amateur-main ,Splinter is a fascinating character that, at least to me, becomes more interesting the deeper you look – I think I’ll just make a series of posts, with each one being about a different Splinter until I get to 2018 Splinter, hopefully at least some people will find them as interesting as I do!
I just started writing a post about my thought of how this new splinter actually fits very neatly (if accidentally IMO) in the progression of the splinters that came before him (that I’m aware of anyway) but it somehow evolved into a monster of a post of me analyzing past splinters and now I’m not even halfway through and I’m already pretty sure it’s way too long and no one will be interested in reading it anyways…
a nsa agent in a suit looking through my laptop camera: she’s on her phone…….. our data shows that she’s got tumblr open on her laptop but she has tumblr open on her phone………. double check her browser?
some nerd hired straight out of college: *types rapidly* she’s definitely got tumblr open on her laptop
the nsa agent, softly: so why is she looking at it on her phone…..
My husband and myself have served in the military. When we call home from overseas, our lines are monitored and on a short delay so no sensitive information is revealed. The line will just go dead if you say something you’re not supposed to.
Now, these calls are monitored by a department in the military called Signal corps. When we’d talk on my husband’s last deployment, we had a running joke that we said hi to “Signal Guy Fred.”
So this continued for his entire 12 month deployment, and we made sure we said hi or bye to “Signal Guy Fred” every phone call. On his final phone call before returning home we made sure to thank “Signal Guy Fred” for his time and wish him farewell.
So, before I disconnect the call, I wish “Fred” the best and thank him for his service. My phone was on speaker mode (I was cooking dinner) and my finger was hovering over the end call button when I hear the softest little, “My name’s Jason.”
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