Cheese Pie and Agamemnon’s Death Mask

There are more things talked about in this podcast than in your imagination.

 

Language always pulls us back and forms a strong element of many of the conversations Judith and I have.  We like language.  We like books.  We like talking about language.  We like talking about books.

Judith reflects on our recent conversations and podcasts and talks about how we learn languages at school and out in the real world.  We talked about school trips abroad and exchange visits, what this meant for us at the time and how we reflect back on them now.

We talked about the sense of wonder when we travel and how that can still be replicated, or whether it has been left by the wayside.  Perhaps it is replaced by empathy and engagement and that can’t be a bad thing.

We found ourselves talking about food all of a sudden – still not entirely sure how this happened – as a function of comfort and memory.  We can of course seamlessly tie this to an abstract construct of identity, representation and travel in international higher education – but at the time, it just happened.

We talked about impact.  How we are impacted by travel and how we, in turn, impact other people we meet.  We reflected on the vast levels of kindness we have experienced when travelling and how this can help us be more empathetic to international students in return.

 

Don’t underestimate the value of the alphabet in deciding where to visit!

 

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