Amy Currioman

Have you ever needed a translator?  I took Spanish back in 1969 (yes, that WAS a long time ago) and 1970 in middle school.  I really enjoyed learning a foreign language.  I wanted to keep taking it, but the classes were full and I couldn’t get in.  There were a few times in the early ’70s that I actually used some of what I had learned in my job, but then I moved to New England where nobody spoke Spanish – it was mostly English and French. 

More recently I’ve found some websites that were in a foreign language and found that I wanted an online translation to help me to understand what the websites were saying.  I find it fun to be able to communicate with other people whose native tongue is not English!  I think that as more people turn to using the Internet to become global citizens there will be an increasing need for free translation services.  I sure wish I’d kept up on my Spanish skills!  I’ve been thinking about taking a course in it but I’ve been feeling too lazy.  Or maybe I just feel that I don’t have the time right now. 

Here it is, only mid-October, and the weatherman says it might actually snow tonight! I have to admit that it certainly does FEEL like it will snow – it isn’t just cold, there is a certain smell and feel to the air that I have come to learn is the feel of approaching snow. But here in this southern state, snow this early in the season is just abnormal!

The weatherman says that it will only be a few flakes if it happens at all, so chances are that I’ll sleep through the whole thing and by the time I wake up in the morning it will have melted. Just as well; I’m in no hurry to see snow!