I’m back. As Arnold said in terminator. This was not an easy journey , but what are the predicaments when you can see the goal you are aiming at?
Hi from the other said did the ocean! From the country behind "a lock and a broken key" . At least for the travelers from schengen area, and at least at the time I planned for this trip and entered in the US (today at the BBC I read that US is preparing to lift the travel ban, so next visit will be easier to arrange).
Hi from the other said did the ocean! From the country behind "a lock and a broken key" . At least for the travelers from schengen area, and at least at the time I planned for this trip and entered in the US (today at the BBC I read that US is preparing to lift the travel ban, so next visit will be easier to arrange).
Hereinafter you will be given a possibility to read how I got myselNef back here, including some technical details in case somebody is interested. As always, I will dwell on travel details, but somewhere later (not today though), I will share my plans or at least some ideas of what I intend to do in the next weeks. (There is a proverb that gods laugh when you share your plans, but without a plan you are without a direction- something I keep telling my students.) The former will allow you to satisfy your curiosity about the means I used to get to the USA (and why it was so complicated), while the latter shall give you the possibility to consider is there anything you can ask me while I’m here, get any indirect experience from my sabbatical or just to know is it worth returning to this blog.
Before I start. Previously I wrote my blog in Latvian. This time (at least for the first entry) I chose English. There are several reasons (I know some will ask thus I state them at the beginning): (1) Practice makes perfect. The more you write, the better you get. I want to continue improving my writing in English. (2) There are friends who do not understand Latvian and had previously used google translate to read my blogs. Now they can enjoy the original text - if I will continue writing in English, of course. (3) At my home university the management encouraged us to provide reading materials for students in foreign languages. Ostensibly, students are not good at reading English. Although I do not buy this argument, nevertheless I will encourage them to read this blog and to try finding in between the lines the questions that will be raised in the next classes.
So let the story begin...
Before I start. Previously I wrote my blog in Latvian. This time (at least for the first entry) I chose English. There are several reasons (I know some will ask thus I state them at the beginning): (1) Practice makes perfect. The more you write, the better you get. I want to continue improving my writing in English. (2) There are friends who do not understand Latvian and had previously used google translate to read my blogs. Now they can enjoy the original text - if I will continue writing in English, of course. (3) At my home university the management encouraged us to provide reading materials for students in foreign languages. Ostensibly, students are not good at reading English. Although I do not buy this argument, nevertheless I will encourage them to read this blog and to try finding in between the lines the questions that will be raised in the next classes.
So let the story begin...
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