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I wonder how come my EL50 classmates think our prof isn't clear on giving instructions, that he's pretty malabo, etc. However I do understand his instructions, I get them easily, etc. Maybe he leaves out some details sometimes but you can pretty much infer it from the first set of instructions he gives.

Anyway, I really like him. He's a funny, witty, gay man and he's pretty inspiring. Like he really wants us to pursue intellectual growth and read up on the fields we're studying, that we're supposed to be interested about. Like, don't wait for your teachers to spoon feed you. And he doesn't like really old book or handout references. All his readings are 5 years old at most, or if the source is really good, 15 years max. For example, today this group presented their annotated bibliography with books dating back to the 60s etc, and he was like, "Wow ah mga lolo na ata itong mga librong to." hahaha

Actually the reason why I blogged is because he said something funny while sharing this story. It's about a friend of his whose immune system has a cycle, wherein at his immune system fails regularly at one point of the cycle and he gets sick sick sick.

Sir: He gets immune system failure. No, it's not aids.

And he says at one time when the "failure period" kicked in his friend was at the hospital, really sick, and our prof was there with him. His friend is in so much pain and then all of a sudden, the nurses gor confused cos his friend would call them but would only speak to them in French. His friend started to speak in French. Not just speak in French fluently, like it was the only language his friend spoke, understood and responded to. His friend knew Filipino and English, of course, and Spanish, Italian, German (I think). But recognition of all those languages were blocked out. And then sir goes... (Not exact but those in quotations are pretty much exact.)

Sir: And then you know, he's complaining na ang sakit, sakit in French. And he starts speaking fluent, very very colorful, curses in French. Buti nalang nandun ako kaya naiintindihan namin. His mother was like, "Oh my god anong nangyayari sa anak ko, bakit nagfrefrench."

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Sir: Tapos sabi ko sakanya, "My god friend.. Ang galing galing mo mag French! Nagmumura ka pa!"

Hahaha sorry natawa lang talaga ako dun. Well it was really just an example of how there are still alot of cognitive/brain processes that can't be understood yet. Like how a part of the brain shuts off the ability to speak/understand/recognize a certain language(s).

Hay my god sana lang ako din diba fluent. Hahaha