Teasers
I’m writing an article for Towerview, the Chronicle’s news magazine, about my study abroad experience. I can’t give it away just yet, but I will tell you that I’ve been away from Real Journalism for far too long and the result is that I now think/hope I can get away with sentences like this:
But if English and French are like distant cousins, vaguely related and meeting occasionally at some big family reunion in Quebec, English and Wolof are alien life forms, separated by galaxies and light years and vast stretches of empty, uncharted space.
and this:
As I went on, French conversations remained like games of Tetris. Sometimes all the pieces fit together, sometimes they almost did, and sometimes one of those awkward L-shaped pieces—you know the bastards I’m talking about—fell right on top of three empty rows and suddenly the entire thing was in shambles.
STAY TUNED.
