2nd July – In an online German course, I’m learning how to say “The salt is bad”, “The man drinks oil”.\u00a0 I looked at the equivalent French course where I learnt “My wheat is black”, “We eat butter”.<\/p>\n
3rd July – On the other hand, the French course teaches:\u00a0 “She has a black dress” and “I love you”;\u00a0 the German, “You are a man and I am a woman”.<\/p>\n
4th July – A Chinese student thanked me with a packet of tea from China.\u00a0 I scooped some into my teapot, drank the tea, inhaled its fragrance, then tried to empty the tealeaves out.\u00a0 They had morphed into life-size green leaves, like leaf-litter in the bottom of the pot.<\/p>\n
5th July – Eating at a table beside the lake when a seagull (lake gull?) landed and walked up to my plate.\u00a0 It had a black and white polka-dot tail,which is actually the white tips of black edges of white wings.<\/p>\n
6th July – A friend told me that her husband cut her hair in the shower this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2nd July – In an online German course, I’m learning how to say “The salt is bad”, “The man drinks oil”.\u00a0 I looked at the equivalent French course where I learnt “My wheat is black”, “We eat butter”. 3rd July – On the other hand, the French course teaches:\u00a0 “She has a black dress” and … <\/p>\n