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cimorenebilingualism protects the brain, may slow development of dementia. the UK alzheimer's society welcomes the findings, but their remarks that "the results of this particular study need to be interpreted cautiously as they were comparing groups of individual of different nationalities, educated in different systems" seems like a fairly big caveat. however, the findings are suggestive and exciting anyway!
i totally didn't chicken out on an opportunity to come out today. it pretty much always comes up when people ask me about coming to finland - it's either how i like it here or how long i'm staying or why i came in the first place and then it always comes back to wax, but she'd already come up in class as the appropriate swedish term, "my cohabitor", which is gender-neutral, so the girl i was chatting with said "it was a boyfriend, right? did you meet here or there?" and i miraculously produced the requisite "girlfriend actually" as part of my answer! not in front of a whole classroom of people though, just three girls named laura, mirjo and stampan whom i quite liked.
mirjo sits directly in front of me in two classes, and i had her pegged from the first glimpse last week as half japanese, but then i was like, "you're probably crazy. there are very few half-japanese people in finland, let alone half-japanese and half swedish-speaking finn, and finns themselves are already known for slight 'mongoloid' facial features". i couldn't get rid of the suspicion, though, and today it turned out that i was totally right. i suppose in that kind of question (eg name the nationality of that asian person!) i should trust my instincts!
i totally didn't chicken out on an opportunity to come out today. it pretty much always comes up when people ask me about coming to finland - it's either how i like it here or how long i'm staying or why i came in the first place and then it always comes back to wax, but she'd already come up in class as the appropriate swedish term, "my cohabitor", which is gender-neutral, so the girl i was chatting with said "it was a boyfriend, right? did you meet here or there?" and i miraculously produced the requisite "girlfriend actually" as part of my answer! not in front of a whole classroom of people though, just three girls named laura, mirjo and stampan whom i quite liked.
mirjo sits directly in front of me in two classes, and i had her pegged from the first glimpse last week as half japanese, but then i was like, "you're probably crazy. there are very few half-japanese people in finland, let alone half-japanese and half swedish-speaking finn, and finns themselves are already known for slight 'mongoloid' facial features". i couldn't get rid of the suspicion, though, and today it turned out that i was totally right. i suppose in that kind of question (eg name the nationality of that asian person!) i should trust my instincts!
