We had a rather successful flag football game on Tuesday. I don’t want to brag, but Cami told me I was the MVP. And thanks to that MVP status I have discovered a hidden talent. I am an excellent flag grabber. I can grab those football flags like the best of them. If your pants/underwear gets in my way, you might just loose them too but I’ll come out with the flag in hand. After years of searching for my talents and wishing that I had more outward talents like playing the piano or singing like my sisters, I finally have something that can show my awesomeness. I nail the flag every time.
On another note, I’m loosing my Polish. I used Skype today for the first time with my friend Ewa from Bydgoszcz. I was butchering that Polish. (And if Ewa leaves a comment and says I wasn’t bad, she’s LYING.) I sounded terrible. I sounded awful. It was more frustrating than anything because I couldn’t remember words and then when I forgot the word in Polish for some reason it was popping into my head in German! German! The language I took only to get my upper division language courses GE. The language I only stuck with because I thought Vienna looked like a really cool city and I wanted to do a study abroad.
So what did I learn today? I smothered my talent. I guess I understand the Parable of the Talents just a little better now. At least God is merciful and gave me a new talent. And yes, it may be small and insignificant, but I’m a dang good flag puller and if I wasn’t, we might have lost the game.
3 comments:
Polish, flag grabbing, German? Stick with the flag grabbing. That takes far more skill, far more precision, and far more brainpower than any foreign language could ask of you. I think that's a talent to add to the resume.
Lauren! I wish i could see you grabbing those flags! I can just imagine that and everytime I do that I can't stop smiling!
And the winner for the best liar competition is....Lauren!
As I remember we were speaking polish almost all the time and I understood everything you said so if your polish is bad then mine is even worse!
not to make everyone jealous, but i totally have seen her pulling the flags... and lets just say it's life-changingly amazing.
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