Ciao,
So I haven't blogged in a while, unfortunately good ol' life got in the way. It's literally been one thing on top of the other plus prioritising essays over blogging (yawn). Apologies to anyone who may read my blog for the absence. :)
Words, mots, parole, language, lingo! However you say it is irrelevant, I have come to the conclusion that I have a wee little love affair with words. Now this is not a short term affair, it has been going on and building since I was around a year old. I'm not sure exactly when my first word was said or what it was but I do know that by the time I was 1 and a half I could sing nursery rhymes to my newborn baby brother and my parents always like to brag about how when most children my age were still on single words I could hold coherent conversations. From then on it has evolved in several ways, firstly being that I never shut up! The whole way through school teachers always made the same comments "She's a bright girl, but she talks too much.". To be completely honest this is one of the outcomes I least like, I do wish sometimes I could keep certain things to myself but alas I have to get the words out. It's like a compulsion.
The second thing that has come from my love of words is my love of reading. Granted I don't read as much as I used to at the moment because of uni obligations and general life getting in the way but it is one of my favourite things to do. I can get lost in a book for days, ask my family I finish books at an alarming rate and at the age of 7 I had the reading age of someone over twice my age... Just call me book worm. Another of my passions is music, in the lyrical sense. I wish wish wish I could write amazing songs, or just simple ones if I'm honest but I will have to stick to collecting amazing lyrics from other peoples masterpieces and pretending they're mine! Weirdly I also doodle words as opposed to pictures. I doodle all over the cardboard backing of my pads and most of what I doodle is words in different fonts and styles...what a strange little bean I am!
Now obviously my choice in degree and hopefully career is the biggest result of my love of words! If you didn't know already I study French and Italian at uni. I have always found languages fascinating and I genuinely love being able to speak more than one language! I find it mind-blowing that people have developed languages so we can communicate with each other and while I've been studying I've become even more interested by the way words and languages have changed and evolved through the ages. Okay I sound sufficiently geeky now, but c'mon you must admit that the fact that we are the only thing on the planet that can speak is pretty amazing, non?
I think my love of words has brought me here, to this very moment, to what you are currently reading (if anyone is out there). Blogging, an outlet for my crazy mouth that never stops, a place to share things albeit with complete strangers but you know sometimes your friends and family get bored of hearing about your life! So yeah, I love words, I love language, I love speaking and communicating and I know this post probably makes me look like a complete loon but hey maybe nobody will ever read this!
Ciao for now...
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