A Fresh Start

Welkom to my newly revamped site!

Anyone who has visited my domain over the past two years probably can tell you it’s been many different things: occasionally amusing, perhaps hard to follow, definitely scatterbrained. This Wiederspiegelung of my creative side and outlet for hilarious internet memes has suddenly taken on a deeper meaning, representing more than my inability to keep one website theme; it’s my proverbial, electronic soul search.

I never understood why “what do you want to be when you grow up?” is the one question we spend endless years, decades, our entire lives trying to figure out. What’s more important, why does our answer to this enigma determine where we’ll fit in, the friends we’ll make, the relationships we’ll form?

I’ve ‘wanted’ to be (in no particular order) a composer, a physicist, a landlord, a chemist, an environmental activist, a pianist, and a professor. But here I am now, having been none of the above, but more sure of my direction than I’ve ever been.

For those of you who know me, it’s pretty obvious that I love languages. I tried at various points in my adolescent years to learn Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Spanish. Back in grade school I made a greeting card in Russian, complete with sickle and hammer, to place in a box of donated coloring books, crayons, and colored pencils that my 4th grade class shipped to an orphanage somewhere outside Moscow. I only learned years later that the Soviet Union had already dissolved 6 years prior to drawing the communist flag on the greeting card.

Nowadays, I find myself more politically aware, but my passion has stuck with me. I’ve usually got my computer, phone, or iPod set to German – to resounding annoyance of everyone but myself -, I read the german news nearly daily, and I try to have regular Skype sessions with my exchange student from Kassel.

I want to become an interpreter, a polyglot. A linguistic dignitary, I suppose. Stick with me along my journey and visit my website to learn about the ins and outs of pursuing my dreams.

I encourage anyone who wants to know a little more about interpreting to check out the video that got me fired up about becoming an interpreter and working with language.