He waved away my apology, forgiving everything with a breezy, "of course you can't read Greek, it's not like it's Latin!" I've been smiling about his niceness and possible language shade.
After our presentation today, EM noticed that people say "Congratulations!" instead of "nice presentation" or whatever. It certainly feels way more celebratory. Lots of interest in the QR code for our CFP (It's been viewed over a 1000 times at this point!) Three people helped us get our slide deck on the screen, and each one had a keyboard that was in a different language (Greek, Portuguese, French). It felt like very transnational solidarity.
Pic: Cafe near the university. I experienced a pang of envy about not being able to recreate the beauty of the vining wisteria and bougainvillea at home. #Greece
8 comments:
I'm reading backwards. Pieces of your holiday are coming at me in reverse order!
"Possible language shade" made me smile. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it was.
I am also reading backwards and now I know the reason for your trip. I will chip in with my congrats!
LOL, laughing at the language shade. I took Latin in High School and in college. One of my friends did both, and I was always amazed because of the different alphabet.
It's fun reliving it via comments too :)!
Can you imagine 70% of the world taking greek lettering for normal? (totally made up percentage, BTW)
Thank you, Steph. It certainly ballooned from the original impetus!
I'm always a bit envious of people who had the opportunity to take greek and latin... English and French were as exotic as it got!
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