Languages
Sylvi feels equally at home in this language as she does in English.
What is German?
Two mental illnesses Sylvi has been diagnosed with.
What are depression and anxiety?
Sylvi almost got stranded in a bog in this Baltic country.
What is Estonia?
This is Sylvi's comfort book that she has been known to read in one sitting.
What is Salt to the Sea?
Sylvi grew up competing in this sport; her brother still does.
What is figure skating?
Sylvi is planning to do independent research centered around this language in the fall.
What is Japanese?
This is Sylvi's favorite place to have an anxiety attack.
What is the floor?
Sylvi got violently ill in this country and spent three hours crying on the toilet her first night there.
What is Slovakia?
His eyes are grey and he sparked Sylvi's quest for amber earrings.
Who is Florian Beck?
This is one of Sylvi's traumatic skiing memories (that she's overcome now!).
What is she fell off the chairlift in fifth grade in front of her class?
This is the first language Sylvi started on Duolingo and is the first language she learned voluntarily.
What is French?
The term "polyamorous delusionship" was coined during this semester.
What is Spring 2023?
Sylvi snuck this substance into the closed psych ward in Innsbruck.
What is ketamine?
Sylvi has read this book in three different languages.
What is All the Light We Cannot See?
Sylvi can be seen on TV during the 2022 Olympic trials for this sport.
What is Nordic combined?
Sylvi took a 6-week online course to learn the basics of this language and she still tries to practice the bits she learned with her first Middlebury friend.
What is Finnish?
This attachment style has proven to cause emotional challenges for Sylvi her whole life but also especially this past year.
What is anxious attachment?
A place where you can ride a horse, go to a troll museum, shoot a rifle, and cry from exhaustion multiple times.
What is Northern Norway (Tromsø)?
This book was one of the first books Sylvi read on her own in German, though she had read it in English many times before. One of the characters is, like Sylvi, a big fan of Olympic history.
What is The Book Thief?
Sylvi learned German partially with the help of her pandemic obsession with the German league of this.
What is soccer/football?
Sylvi's favorite phrase in this language translates to "I eat a grape".
What is Korean?
This is one of the reasons Sylvi took so long to get back into therapy when she started college.
What is her therapist ghosted her at the beginning of the pandemic?
Sylvi drank 3 liters of blueberry juice in this country.
What is Finland?
This is Sylvi's favorite book she's read for a class in college.
What is Catch 22?
Sylvi started her swimming career after missing the signup deadline for this sport when she was in third grade.
What is softball?