No, unfortunately I'm not cool enough to actually speak (or type) Portuguese...yet. But I was in Portugal this past fall, and after you spend the gorgeous sunny days hiking and swimming from sunrise until way past sunset with hardly any food (yay budgets!) you don't have a lot of energy for the nightlife. Hence, you think. I always do - It's rather dangerous - but you tend to write your thoughts down more. So here are a few thoughts, observations, and questions.
Before I got on the plane, we were talking about parenthesis'. My dad had read a lady's work who believed that if you put something in parenthesis, it wasn't important enough to write down, because it isn't important to you. I was thinking about it and came up with my own thoughts about it. Re: is regarding
Re: Parenthesis - It isn't that what is in parenthesis is unimportant to you - It just doesn't further the story while being a point of interest or clarification.
Thinking about what I would say if they asked me this question at security. I'm so clever.
Re: Question - Is there anything sharp or dangerous in your bag or on your person, miss?
Answer - Only my wit.
Part of my little blurb about me, this is a very real obsersvation/question. Being in a hot climate made me think of it.
Question - Does it take longer for an older person - who has lived in an extreme climate their whole life and hasn't traveled - to adjust to different temperatures than a younger person living in the same spot, or the same age person who has traveled?
Legit! Also, I'm sure the internet knows, but it's funner to ask...Hey, Mark, if you read this, wanna hit up Wikipedia for me? =)
Question - Where does the term "honeymoon" come from? (Was it like, a dude and his wife after they got married, and the dude said "Honey, come look at the moon!" but it was totally just a ruse to get her to bed faster because she was doing the dishes? This is my only explanation. )
I people watch a lot. Also, being in a climate where there ARE lots of tan and pale people, and you get to see copious amounts of them, it was hard NOT to notice. That's a lie. I'm observant.
Observation - Tan males look younger, while tan females look older. Pale females look younger, while pale males look older.
I hate math, but I love to count. This was on of my projects. I had buff legs after this trip.
Observation - In the Hotel Da Gale, there are 92 stairs to our room from the street level, and a total of 152 steps.
I hope this was sufficiently random enough for you! And I'm going to put in a picture just to make everyone EXTRA jealous that I was in Portugal...if I can find out how. =)
- Zara
(There's an "add image" icon. I love when things are labeled with pictures. Nice!)
ZARA! I have three thoughts today.
ReplyDelete1. I love love love the outfit you are wearing in the photo.
2. I think you should do more posts of observations and questions. This totally made my day.
And 3: You can't participate in Envirothon any more, which is very sad, but you could come volunteer, and come hang with us.
Well, it seems there are a few theories. I won't bother writing them out here, all you need to do is type honeymoon etymology into a search engine to find it. Wikipedia says this though, and given the age of the source it seems pretty likely.
ReplyDelete”One of the more recent citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was originally a reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon. This, the first known literary reference to the honeymoon, was penned in 1552, in Richard Huloet's Abecedarium Anglico Latinum. Huloet writes:
“Hony mone, a term proverbially applied to such as be newly married, which will not fall out at the first, but th'one loveth the other at the beginning exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceadinge love appearing to aswage, ye which time the vulgar people call the hony mone.""
Nice observations. I'm still questioning the tan one though.
Ahh I forgot, "Honey" refers to sweetness or happiness.
ReplyDeleteThat's very likely though. A lot of things good today was taken from something bad, just misinterpreted. Mark, for the tan one, you should go to a warm climate and look at everyone. You don't really see enough skin (although you see plenty, ew) in Canada. There aren't a lot of people who have been naturally tanning their whole lives here, either.
ReplyDeleteRosie! I wish! I'll be away. And thanks :) Glad I could make your day.
I'll keep that in mind next time I travel.
ReplyDeleteI love you Zoo! This is definitly random and sporradic and so sugar puff in a communist bookbag awesome!
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