“Riddles in the Dark”

The J: Honestly, I feel a little bad about it but Tolkien again. I am reading two books right now The Hobbit and Këpucari dhe Elfët (The Shoemaker and the Elves), which believe it or not isn’t bursting with great quotes being a children’s book and all. Also if you didn’t know this is the chapter where Bilbo finds The Ring.

Where to begin is always a tough question for me, but today it is not so hard. I want to go back to the Swearing In Ceremony because I received lots of compliments for my mad dancing skills. This really just meant I was super into it and trying. See the video below even though it is only half of the dance.

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good… are not much listened to…

Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.

The J: Tolkien, Hobbit p.47ish  a former friend told me he thought I was a little too heavy on Tolkien and I just can’t have that negativity in my life. So a small excerpt felt right.

We will have things of both natures in this post. It will also be a long post since basically everything big is happening or just happened. We shall start at the first place with the LPI (Language Proficiency Interview), the test that pretty much everyone had been stressing about for two weeks.  It is a 10-15 minute interview where they ask you a wide variety of questions to decide what “level” of language acquisition you currently have.

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”

The J: Salinger,  J.D. from the only book anyone knows by him. The quote is accurate for me and my friends have told me several times they like me more when I’m excited.

This post is going to be a smorgasbord of things that excited me or I found funny with no real rhythm or rhyme. So if you don’t want to travel down the rabbit hole of my scattered mind, wait for the next blog. It will probably be shortly after we have our language test on Wednesday (të mekurën). On the plus side, this is a purely positive blog post with nothing negative.

I know this is going to get my friends excited. Two words, four (chin dropping down and hitting fist things) [even more of a delay, I need whoever reads this blog to let us know if you understand what I mean by the chin dropping… Amy says no one will. I had to remove the actual word for this experiment so please write to us]: Animal Tees.