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Asked by Anonymous
aww yeahhhhh questions. This is the butts!
Hmm, well it really started in Latin class. I was a student of latin since freshman year and we got a pretty comprehensive (sarcasm) education on the subject. It was after I graduated from High School (earlier this summer) I realized ‘hey Italian’s a pretty cool language’
so I got into contact with, first of all, people who spoke italian, who were willing to help me in my quest-venture, then I came across a copy of Rosetta Stone, which helped me a bit of the way.
for the record, I don’t know Italian fluently. I can probably get by as a tourist, nothing more, but I’m happy with that.
It’s very interesting and easy to delve into different languages, one just has to be that interested in learning so. It takes time and dedication and a lot of practice.
I would recommend if you really want to learn languages, try to get into contact with people who are willing to teach you. If all else fails you can turn to things like rosetta stone, but It’s almost essential and will be easier if you came along a person who spoke the language.
Often, community colleges and various state colleges will offer classes to learn languages, those of which you don’t necessarily need to be part of the school for.
But yeah, languages are pretty cool. and thanks!
this is an unedited picture of some birds I took at a rainforest exhibit in the Moody Gardens at Galveston.
they be so purdy.
But don’t even think about going to the Moody Gardens unless you are already in the city for some other ungodly reason. In fact, my whole trip to the Houston/Galveston area earlier this month has probably been the most depressing trip of my entire life. The only upside to this trip was our stay at a great family friend’s house (these specific family friends were the ones who helped us greatly in our immigration to America).
But everything from the Johnson space center, to the Moody gardens was absolutely unbearable. More about those in following posts, for now, enjoy these birds.
in this blurry picture stands Breivik (reportedly) as he surveys those he just took the life from.
It’s absolutely mind-numbingly horrible how some people think so highly of themselves they can control the lives of others, no matter what the situation. The taking stealing of another human being’s life is never justified.
My deepest prayers to Norway and those affected by the attacks.
is when the people’s voice often tends to be inherently wrong.
I find it pathetic the kinds of things people try to complain about these days, the fact of the matter is there’s always someone going through worse and the more realistic fact of the matter is that there’s someone risking his life just so people can complain about stupid crap.
I’m not big on blogging but read.
This man is one of the few living recipients of the Medal of Honor so , respek yo.
Petry received the Medal of Honor for his heroism May 26, 2008, when he and his fellow Rangers were conducting a rare daylight raid on a Taliban compound in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktia Province.
As the senior non-commissioned officer, Petry, 31, was to have played an oversight role in the raid. But he quickly found himself in the fight when one of the assaulting squads needed extra help.
After securing a building in the compound, Petry and Pfc. Lucas Robinson entered a courtyard to take on three enemy fighters readying to fire on soldiers at the other end of the courtyard.
They immediately came under fire and Petry was shot by a round that went through both of his legs. Although wounded, Petry led Robinson to take cover behind a chicken coop. Another Ranger, Sgt. Daniel Higgins, came to help his wounded soldiers.
But a short time later, Higgins and Robinson were wounded by a grenade thrown at them by one of the Taliban fighters. Then, another grenade landed in their midst.
It was at that moment that Petry, already wounded in the legs, lunged for the live grenade to throw it away from his fellow Rangers.
“It was almost instinct; off training,” Petry told the Army News Service. “It was probably going to kill all three of us. I had time to visually see the hand grenade. And I figure it’s got about a four-and-half second fuse, depending on how long it has been in the elements and the weather and everything and how long the pin has been pulled. I figure if you have time to see it you have time to kick it, throw it, just get it out there.”
But just as he did so, the grenade exploded in his right hand. “I actually didn’t think it was going to go off,” Petry said. “I didn’t really feel much pain. I didn’t know it had gone off and taken my hand until I sat back up and saw it was completely amputated at the wrist.”
Remarkably, Petry placed a tourniquet on his right arm then reported by radio that he and the other two Rangers had been wounded and were still under enemy fire.
Eventually, the Taliban fighters were killed by other soldiers, but not before one of them fatally shot Spc. Christopher Gathercole, who had arrived to help Petry, Higgins and Robinson.
