Monday, 3 October 2011

Well, all you lovely people will be wracked with disappointment that I haven't posted since Thursday, this being because I haven't found a way yet of posting using Firefox, my preferred web browser on my home machine. Can't seem to activate the 'Create New Post button' from said web browser. I’ve not managed to use Google Chrome either although I’ve read that blind people use it successfully. Anyway, while you were all delighting in another chance to listen to a repeat of the Cita Ciega with the excellent Lupe Velasquez, J, K and I were at Tate Britain watching a short film about 2 aspirational girls of African descent whose only aspiration was to become rich, it seemed to me. All too common these days sadly! The film was excellently made with very good acting though. J stayed to interview the young female director of Nigerian descent while K and I found the Morpeth Arms along Millbank, with the kind help of a friendly security guard, where we had 2 pints each of delicious and beautifully kept Young’s Special. J looked for us there but could not find us so we went back to Brixton on a Number 2 and met up with him in Aculco Radio’s studio for a meeting about a visit to a school next month where K and I have been asked to talk about the benefits of knowing foreign languages. Quite apart from the improved employment prospects, knowing a foreign language improves your social opportunities hugely too. Being a linguaphile I shall be able to spiel on this theme and shall be delighted to interpret for K, where necessary, who has come from Latin America to work as a volunteer for Aculco Radio. We were also discussing different ways of involving the school in further projects as it is a language school, ie a secondary school which specialises in teaching foreign languages. We’re thinking it would be good to get the students to make a programme to be broadcast on Aculco Radio but we’ll need to meet with the staff to discuss what they want to do if anything.

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