The decison

Just reading my own blog makes me hungry. I really love it, when I cook myself 6 eggs, then half way through I throw in a handful of cheddar cheese. After the eggs are done cooking I slide them onto a plate and apply a nice sized squeeze of ketchup. Mmm, my mouth is watering.

Winter quarter is over with, my grades were pretty good, however a strange thing happened.

The class I hated the most, I did quite well in. The class that I didn't like very much because of the work load and usually the content, I did the best in. The class that I enjoyed the most, I did the worst in. I think this happened because I didn't have the book for the class and I thought that because I knew most of it already, I would hardly read the old-revision text book that I had for the class. The tests for that class were brutal. The questions were all multiple-choice, with many questions having 2 good options. This winter quarter was however a fun quarter that I look back on with smiles... expect for finals week.

So I really need to decide which language to take in the fall quarter.

I need to take a non-indo-european language, so no French, Spanish, Hindi, or Swedish...you might get the idea :)

There is one obverse choice that would expose me to a language with the most speakers: Arabic. However I'm not that interested in it. I'd like to visit the homes of the languages that I learn about and most of the Arabic speaking countries aren't on my travel list.

I would like to learn Hebrew, it is a Semitic language just like Arabic and it interests me. I'd love to visit Israel and I'm interested in reading the Old Testament in Hebrew. I know that just one year of a language won't prepare me for the latter but it would at least open the doors of possibility.

The other language that I want to take, more so than Hebrew, is Finnish. I've been to Finland before and I loved it. I'd love to return, and I'd love to go hiking in Finland. I know I could do that without learning the language but for some reason, from my limited exposure of Finnish culture, learning Finnish intrigues me.

What my debate comes down to is practicality vs. the level of interest that I have. I'm interested in both but more so in Finnish, at least at the moment. Another factor in learning a language is use. I know that the situations for using either of them are limited in Seattle however I imagine that Hebrew might be more

I have to take whatever language I pick for a year because of my degree requirements. Whichever language I pick, I'm sure it'll be fun.