What am I doing? I have no idea. It feels like I’m sitting on a theme park ride without knowing how I got there, why I’m still there and when it will stop. I’m supposed to be revising for my exams which are coming at me like a train on frozen rails, but, obviously, I’m not right now. It was a few days ago where I got to the point where I just thought “What the heck is this for?”. Everyone hits that wall at some time in their revision period. But I really can’t afford to dwell. The more people yell in my ear “C’est important!!!” (in English, of course) the more I want to run away and become a pirate. Arrrrr.
Not long ago, I saw the film “La faute a Fidel” (Blame it on Fidel) which showed on BBC 4.
It’s about this 10-year-old French girl and shown from entirely her perspective. Her mum, played by Gerard Depardieu’s daughter, and her dad, who was Spanish, began to help in a political battle against Franco in Chile, and so the family’s lives were forced to make sacrifices. It’s all about how the girl comes to terms with the emotion and in a way, grows up, to understand what other people feel and why her parents did what they did. It’s cleverly political without being overly intrusive. I enjoyed it 🙂 (*cough* also, I found Stefano Accorsi – the dad – quite a looker. *cough*)
But it has now sparked my obsessive side again, which is not one I like to succumb to. I get things done, but it means I over-think everything and my mind is in constant torment. Sounds mental, right? Well, exactement! Even though I’m giving up French at the end of this year, I now somehow really want to learn how to speak it properly. And spanish too. I already wanted to live in Spain for a few years, but now France seems ever so appealing too. How can anyone get all that into their lifetime when they want to be a blinkin’ physicist? You see my dilemma?
I know. I’m making a mountain out of a mole hill. But don’t you think life can be a bit ridiculous sometimes!
Q: What languages can you speak?