DuoLingo Podcasts

 

I had this morning off of work, so I used it to do something very thrilling: going to a land-use meeting at our village hall. The president of our condo association and I both went, but it was about making a road private that goes between two other condo associations, so it didn't really involve us. Then I did laundry and practiced Spanish on DuoLingo before trying to take a walk in the shade, but the landscapers came today (I thought Tuesday was their day) so it was too loud where I usually walk in the shade. I went over to another condo association's shady area... and their landscapers came too! Lawnmowers everywhere!!

The rest of my day was just as exciting. I worked all afternoon, and then Travalon and I went swimming in the outdoor pool at our health club, which was lovely but not exciting. The one exciting thing that happened today, if you can even say that, is that Bea decided to back a business proposition. Bea is a character in DuoLingo, and in the French version she has a podcast where people call in with business propositions, and if she likes them (which would happen about half the time), she agrees to work with them. She has the same podcast in Spanish, but this time she never likes people's ideas. To be fair, they have some really weird ones, like a shop that only sells purple clothes or a coffee shop only open at 5 am. Today someone proposed an interactive map for surfers with all the symbols explained, and Bea loved this idea, so she said she would work with this person. And by "podcast," I mean a two-minute conversation. All the characters have podcasts, even Falstaff the Bear, except Eddie the jock. His son Junior has one where he discusses the weird things adults do. (Junior is eight.) Bea actually has two, because she also has one about traveling the world and finding out interesting things. I'm not sure why poor Eddie doesn't get one of his own. He's the gym teacher; the art teacher, Oscar, who is terribly pretentious, has one where he critiques people's "antiques." Then again, I can say from having visited many antique shops, that pretty much anything qualifies as an antique, no matter what its age is.

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