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Aug. 5th, 2007 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
42itousIt was so beautiful today, after much hot-and-muggy, that I felt compelled to spend some quality time communing with nature. And where better to do that than Walden Pond? The beach parts were crowded, but the path around the pond was fairly quiet. There are periodic gaps in the shore-flora where there's enough room to unfold a chair and set out a fishing line, or wade in and swim, or enjoy a very small picnic, and all those spots were occupied.
I heard a couple of men conversing in Spanish, and a little further on a boy called to his mother in German. That's when I started counting: I heard a middle-aged couple speaking some Asian language to their small grandson (Chinese? Korean? I can't tell). We heard two young blond women speaking something that might have been Russian or Polish. There were two women picnicking on a towel, speaking French. Several families we passed on the path were speaking what I assume was Hindi.
I don't remember any other time in this country when I've heard so many languages on one day. Walden Pond is an international tourist destination!
I heard a couple of men conversing in Spanish, and a little further on a boy called to his mother in German. That's when I started counting: I heard a middle-aged couple speaking some Asian language to their small grandson (Chinese? Korean? I can't tell). We heard two young blond women speaking something that might have been Russian or Polish. There were two women picnicking on a towel, speaking French. Several families we passed on the path were speaking what I assume was Hindi.
I don't remember any other time in this country when I've heard so many languages on one day. Walden Pond is an international tourist destination!
