Yesterday evening, Amy and I had over a classmate of mine, Fahad, along with his cousin, Rakan, an MBA student in Oklahoma. They’re from Saudi Arabia. (Fahad is the one on my right.) We had an enjoyably evening and a wonderful roast.
Did you notice that I got a haircut? We had decided to wait till the semester was over. So Amy took care of it Friday evening. (And she did a marvelous job!) If you’ve forgotten how long my hair had gotten, here’s a recent photo (taken after an event that required a tie — something unusual for me these days).
The semester ended well. I had two final papers (due Tuesday and Wednesday), and some final exams to grade (I finished those yesterday). So summer has begun. My plans are to study French, continue my work for Nightlight Christian Adoptions (formerly Carolina Hope), design a couple websites, and conduct research on Jarai for my dissertation — along with some other miscelaneous items.
By the way, Amy’s old computer (very graciously given to her a couple years ago by her brother Jon) is on the way out. If anyone is trying to dispose of a (still reliable) laptop that’s a couple years old (at a reasonable price), please let us know!
Thanks for the update…love the pictures/hair cut. Bummer about the computer. I’ll keep on the lookout for a good one. We sold mine when I got my one from work, or I would offer it up. 😉 See you soon!
Wonderful to hear you’ll be studying French, Josh. Hope it goes well :D.
I’ve been working on French for an hour, and I haven’t mastered it yet. This may be harder than I thought… 🙂
The French study is for one of my PhD requirements. I’d planned to study every morning for the next four weeks from 9-12 in the Language Acquisition Lab here on campus (they have the Rosetta Stone course on CD). But I found out this morning that they are closed for two weeks. So I’m in the LInguistics Lab trying out the BBC’s online course in French. Not sure how useful it is, but it’s only been an hour.
(Actually, I’m writing comments on our blog. But I’ll go back to studying in a minute.)
So why French and not Chinese so you can converse with your nephews? 🙂
Good question! There are French books about Jarai, but not Chinese books. And I can talk to my nephews in English (as of now). 🙂
Congratulations on finishing another semester, Josh! Now it’s Amy’s turn to finish! 🙂 It sounds like you have plenty of things to keep you busy until you come to SC!
Parlez-vous le français? C’est une belle langue. 🙂 So glad you survived your last week of school. You and Amy have had a very busy semester. Congratulations to you both for all your achievements – PTL! Thanks for the new blog post! Love you guys!
Glad your done, Josh, and I know you’ll both be happy when Amy is done as well. Have fun studying French:-)
I thought for sure “miscelaneous” has two L’s? 🙂 Looking forward to seeing you when you come back to Greenville for a short time. Maybe you and Ryan could work on French with his rosetta stone for a while.