I wanted to kick off this whole month of something new, with a bang today but that just did not happen. It's interesting how life and the reality of everything can actually change our daily plans.
Today I thought I would make a recipe (or at least attempt) that I had not made before. While searching online through recipe websites as well as numerous recipe books, I was as usual distracted by what else was going on on the Internet... I had been looking at websites of lists of something new as well and had been going onto a few of the websites I had used as a major reference during the last 3 years - once a teacher, always a teacher.
While still trying to find a easy but also interesting recipe (which did not use too many ingredients), I also wanted to look up a particular word in Maori so off I went to a common resource from my uni days. Before I even realised, I has spent almost 40 minutes on this website and had been totally absorbed by an interactive Maori Langauge learning tool.
Forget the looking for recipes because while my mind was wondering as it usually does, I had just embarked on my first new thing if August 2013 - not just learning a language but rather doing this through an interactive tool on a website. And if that is not awesome enough, I am pleased to say I actually passed the listening aspect which made a change from Year 11 French!
I love Maori Language and in some ways, I am actually grateful and thankful for starting off my month of new things by building on my knowledge and understanding of this beautiful langauge.
So that is Day 1 completed for you all (and for me) and I look forward to continuing my progress on the website as well as continuous posts throughout the month while embarking on numerous new adventures.
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