Tag: Firefly

• The Swiss Family Carlson Scouts Hadrian’s Wall

  Part 3 of our trip to Scotland. You can read Part 1 about Edinburgh Castle and Part 2 about Harry Potter here. And here we reach what E considers the pinnacle of the trip to Scotland: going to Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian’s Wall is a real wall. It was built in 122AD while Hadrian was Emperor…

  Mindy Carlson

  August 3, 2015

  The Swiss Family Carlson

  Boarder Reivers, Firefly, Hadrian’s Wall, Jedburgh Abbey, Joss Whedon, King David I, Reavers, Roman Britain, Romans, Scotland, Serenity, Vindolanda

• Noun Roulette: The High Stakes Game of Speaking a Foreign Language when it Counts

  “Hallo! Hair Live! Kann ich Ihnen helfen?” That sentence strikes fear into my heart. It’s rattled off at breakneck speed and the words fly like bullets. And all she’s saying is “Hello, Hair Live. Can I help you?”  I reply with an elegant and fluent, “Uh…..” But I recover and haltingly say, “Ich möchte einen…

  Mindy Carlson

  February 10, 2015

  Kids, The Swiss Family Carlson

  Big Damn Hero, dentist, Firefly, German, Google Translate, languages, learning German, learning languages, non-native speaker, Swiss Family Carlson, Swiss German