a gem-of-a-word was stumbled upon just now:
"ortzikara is Basque and means 'time when a storm is brewing' or in Spanish 'tiempo amenazado por la tormenta'. Do any other languages have a single word to express this meaning?" (see this blog for more).
basque is that notoriously mysterious language spoken in a northern province in spain. actually, the entire province is rather out of this world. i feel like everything there is insanely old and...well...mysterious. on sunday i read a short story by dorothy sayers that took place in basque-land. it was eery. i feel like there is some massive, undiscovered secret there.
and i want to discover it.
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21 May 2011
what about everything?
¡voy a españa en 11 días!
all i can think is..."what about dealing with loneliness on the flight from montreal to barcelona?", "what about getting to the peñas house", "what about being polite and knowing what to talk to them about as i struggle to remember things like 'my name is hannah. i have three brothers and one sister'", "what about finding enough to do during the day?"
what about...everything?
but, "Jehová es mi pastor; nada me faltará" (psalm 23:1). and sadly, many of my doubts don't fade, but remain tugging at the corners of my mind.
now, on to the fun part of being en españa! there are a couple of nice looking parks both within a mile or so of where i'll be staying. there is also a cute little café across the street from my apartment. "it"(name forthcoming. seriously, once i get there, you may wish you'd never heard of it before) serves coffee, cookies, tea, sandwiches. at least--i think it does. it was all in catalan and i didn't bother to look any of the words up.
and the official language of the city i'll be in is...catalan. it's like french and spanish got together to cook some paella and the end product was overdone and tasted like an old peanut butter sandwich with pepper thrown in by some intruding languages. so, if i take to sign language or morse code or even pull a zechariah on you...i'll have good cause.
very good cause.
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