They are also very good at helping me learn the language. In fact my first night here I am pretty sure that they were determined to teach me the entire language in one night. It was a pretty intense experience to say the least. Constantly pointing at objects and saying words in Azerbaijani to me until I repeated them correctly then moving on to something else. Needless to say after the first night my mind was a bit fried. After I went to my room to go to sleep I laid in my bed for a while just staring at the wall. It was the strangest sensation, it felt as though my language had been taken from me and all that was left was the few Azerbaijani words I knew that would skitter across my mind at odd intervals. I still get this sensation after an intense language lesson but not so bad anymore. My host sister has a son who is a year and a half old and I feel like he and I are on the same page. He helps me out with the language every now and again. Learning this language in such an immersed setting is very interesting. It is like I get to revisit the first years of my life and feel what it is like to acquire a language just by listening and paying attention to what other people are saying. I think it will come at a relatively fast pace but in the mean time it is a little frustrating.
On a gross side note I think I just saw my host sister suck the snot out of her child's nose with her mouth and then spit it into a napkin.
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