A Long Walk

In order to get some solid study time, I headed to the beach for the week. Yesterday was overcast, but there was a smell of Spring in the air and the air was mild and there was no rain, so I started from the Oysterville Beach Access and walked along the beach. The next thing I knew I was in Ocean Park. I believe that is a 4-mile hike one way.

Luckily, my iphone was working on the beach, giving me access to my useful Romanian translation ap, so I was able to work on my Romanian as I strolled.

It occurred to me that my online language classes have me learning all sorts of nouns from potato (cartof) - pronounced [kar-toff] to hangar (hangar) - pronounced [hahn-gahr], but in all of this learning, I haven't found the word "friend." So, I looked it up on my useful Romanian translation ap. The word is (prieten) - [pre-eh-ten]. So now, I can say, "Fericit Ziua Valentine, prietenii mei." [Fair-ee-cheet zee-wah, pre-eh-ten-ee may.] Happy Valentine's Day, my friends.

There are sooo many cognates to English, Spanish and French that I'm finding my way into the language pretty quickly. The difficulty will be understanding the spoken language once I land in Moldova.

I was also able to enjoy some incredible beauty, and my friend the hawk came to visit and accompany me on my hike, along with a young eagle. Check out the pics:




This might actually be a falcon, but she seems larger to me.



You can tell this is a young eagle, because he hasn't donned his white headdress yet.