In other countries people are always driving like it's stolen - jackrabbit starts with rocket-sled acceleration to speed, hard stops with tires a-smokin', rally-car style drifts into curves, all very exciting. I catch myself looking back to see who's chasing us.
Many people speak English not just well, but very well. So many, in fact, that it's almost more surprising when someone doesn't. Which doesn't mean that we as Americans shouldn't at least try to learn other languages; as the saying goes, you speak three languages, you're trilingual, you speak two languages, you're bilingual, you speak one language, you're an American.
Everybody smokes. As a result, you smoke too.
Dignity isn't related to what you have, where you are, or even necessarily where you come from, but from accurately knowing who you are relative to the rest of the world and accepting it.
There is no word for "dignity" in any language when you're car sick.
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About driving, Tae, check this out: http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000997.html
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing: it's been great to follow your time in Ramallah. I passed on the blog to Ted John, a current U of M M3.