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Bonjour, Czech Please. Todah.

These days, I can't speak any language I may have once known. My English vocabulary is rapidly diminishing as my Hebrew vocabulary slowly grows. I remember the days of the week and a few songs in Spanish from elementary school and maybe a few Czech words on occasion. The only language that seems to come out with any coherence, is oddly enough, high school French. Although as I sit here writing, looking for a funny French phrase to tell you - I can only think in Hebrew. C'est la vie. When I lived in Prague in 2004, I faced daily challenges with the language and culture of the city. In the Slavic language family, Czech was unlike any language I had ever studied before - the grammar so unique, that my own name had to be conjugated in certain tenses. Instead of Jen, I was Jene. My friends David and Nina became Davide and Nino. We slowly shivered our way through the Czech winter, building new identities with the additional letter at the end of our names. Another significan

Jen Gubitz: College Expert...or maybe just College Graduate...

Although only 25% of what I actually wrote was published and this piece doesn't reflect my writing style in anyway - they paid me by the word, so I'm already over it. Campus Life 014: Jewish Adventures for All Seasons / Jennifer Gubitz In other news, Leslie Gubitz heads to Indiana University next week. (A long overdue post will occur in the next day...)