Laten We Gaan!

One thing i hate, which if i made a list we’d be here all day, or for however long it takes for me to publish a new post cause jesus christ i lose track of keeping this up regualry. But who cares right……right.

So, one thing i’ve always always detested throughout my life is learning languages, evident in the fact i can barley speak english. But other than the langauge i’ve used to dig myself into deeper and deeper shit over the years, i haven’t been able to make it stick with any other language, but not for the lack of trying, believe me, i try, in any learning enviornment i try everything and anything, something i can learn, lay it on me. I before the days of covid, i spent the off time i had on campus, that wasnt with friends or in the libary, i spent it going and sitting in on random lectures, cause why the fuck not, theres no fee to the lecture, go in, settle in and worst case scenario, i leave after 10 minutes cause christ a talk about the processes of communitcation of port cities in internaltional business, is a january wednesday afternoon i am never getting back. But as stated, that willingness has never merited results in learning languages.

Irish – Failed/kinda – Fuck you Mr Chambers, so i said “and” a couple more times than i shouldve, so what? Prick

German – A non ztarter

French – A vacuous time, so many hours, and even at my best i was crap

Dutch – 🤞

As part of my erasmus, one thing that became pretty evident early on, because seriously, no shade, but fuck taking scotland. I might have been the only english speaking uni but cmon, it’s scotland, glasshouse i know, which is why i’d rather spend 5 months in a nice looking place, which hopefully for me (and james 🤞) is Holland, hopefully Rotterdam, to give it it’s full title, Erasmus University Rotterdam, so thats the dream. So with the dream comes the everpresent strings attached like

OH FUCK I’M NOT GOING TO BE LIVING IN MY PARENTS HOUSE FOR MONTHS

But other things like managing budgets, being semi-independent with holland bestie Mooney. But also the fact that i have to try my hand at another language, fun fun times. Or should i say….. leuk leuk times.

(I havent learned the dutch for “times” at time of typing)

So far though it’s going pretty well, if i spend by whole time in rotterdam in a food market i think i should be alright, anywhere other than a food market/restaurant then i will be in trouble. But thats what the next 9 months are for, should be okay O.o

In the meantime before that i have the end of this semester and then 8 months with the Limerick Post, which i know, how the fuck, idk, still kicking myself. I’m chalking it up to the fact that most had already gotten placements already, so the bottle of the barrel left, i guess was part of the best of the rest, along with Aofie, who i know literaly nothing about, no thats wrong….. i know her name, but thats about it, so open mind, can’t be worse than some othets in the class

Did i tell you i love sunflowers, i do, they never let you down, they just take in bullshit and continue to sparkle like the beatufil sunflower they are… god i’m sounding like Ginsberg…. IN TERMS OF POETRY THAT IS.

On other langauge fronts i add not a shade of being hyperbolic to this sentance when i say, i’m becoming addicted to old italain music. What started out as a bored idea with no other ideas for a playlist has transpired into a current multi dozen hour journey through italian music from the 60s to present, i’m currently making good pace through the 80’s collection, which is so far outperforming the 70s, but the 60s still the king so far. There’s a lot of duds, obviously a lot of the balled-y type songs arent gonna hit because the words cant carry any weight because it’s undecipherable nonsense to me, but theres still aton of great stuff. I’ll link the best here, as well as the on going playlist.

Thanks for listening to me again, much apricated, sorry for the wait, if you were soz

Tot Ziens!

Seán

Here’s probably the best bop so far, but a cover that i found that i enjoy, the original is full blown 80s which is also great, with the required sax solo.