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Whitman Wire

Vol. CLIV, Issue 9
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Dream, Dream, Dream

Erik April 19, 2012

People make a big deal of dreaming in languages other than their own.  The general assumption is that it marks the point when your mind can switch between languages with relative ease.  I hope that's...

Judge a Man by His Shoes

Erik March 26, 2012

A few weeks ago, I had an interesting run-in while out with some Spanish friends. Our group decided to find a place to dance after drinks at a few bars.  It was Saturday, so the line for the club that...

Our Spanish

Erik February 26, 2012

"You're here in Spain.   You have to learn our Spanish." One of my coworkers at the Centro Hispano-Dominicano, where I have my internship, has said this to me several times after Latin American words...

Second Thoughts on Carlos III

Erik February 14, 2012

I've been told that some people thought my last post about school sounded disappointed.   I can see how that came across, but I just meant it to highlight some of the cultural differences between the...

First Impressions of Carlos III

Erik February 4, 2012

I looked for a study abroad program that offered me the opportunity to direct enroll in a Spanish university.   I'm still confident that attending the Universidad Carlos III through Middlebury was the...

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