The beginning…

Or the middle. I am three months away from leaving my ‘home’ for a ’somewhat long-term period of time’. Having been accepted on exchange for the final year of my Bachelor’s degree, my compass is aiming North-Westish, to Aarhus, Denmark.

I write some things in various other places on the internet, but I think this is the ‘place’ where I will throw all of my exchange/travel/moving/language related thoughts, feelings, bureaucratic walls, and fun facts!

Here is where I am now:

-Third year Linguistics student.

-Living in Sydney, Australia. I’ve spent around 16 of my 22 years in Sydney, having lived abroad before (with the family pre-18 years and without the family post 18-years).

-Will study Psychology and Linguistics at Aarhus Universitet for one year, completing the exchange and my degree in June ‘09.

-Planning to complete a Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience (Psycholinguistics) at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. (Potentially starting in ‘09 but more likely, ‘10)

-I speak a couple of languages well, and grabs of a bunch of languages: English (mother tongue); French (fairly fluent but imperfect); Spanish (average comprehension, shocking production); Hebrew (knew a conversational amount 9 years ago, but have since forgotten most of it); Norwegian (knowledge of grammar is decent, vocab and fluency is poor); and finally, I am currently learning Danish through an online course. Danish and Norwegian are incredibly similar, so I had a slight advantage at the start. There is much to learn, and not a lot of time!

I shall leave this post here.

Until next time, chumps!

A