Tagged: German

Stone Town, Zanzibar: 73 Year Old Energy

Stone Town, Zanzibar: 73 Year Old Energy

Stone Town, Zanzibar: 73 Year Old Energy. Dec 27 Derrick from Germany, 73 – “How was it at home?” German friend Marc – “Beautiful.” Derrick – “No, a woman is beautiful.  Temperatures are hot or cold.  How was it?” Marc – “It was hot.” And that is the mind of a 73 year old German man I met today named Derrick. It was the slow beginning of a day, and it took Marc, Sofia and I until 14:00 to get...

Sucre: Unilingual Moron Near Brain Implosion

Sucre: Unilingual Moron Near Brain Implosion

Sucre: Unilingual Moron Near Brain Implosion. April 29. It has been a long time since I used my brain.  Today all that changed.  I had my first Spanish lesson. It was three hours of driving a language into a muscle that has been on autopilot for about four years with no new heavy lifting in the meantime.  It is amazing how much the action of shaking up the language section of my brain alters my whole mind.  Weird sentences from...