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Emine Fougner
Emine Fougner, linguist, analyst and a popular blogger at A Walk in the Clouds has fans in 185 countries around the world.
“I wanted to be an archaeologist in order to be able to...view moreEmine Fougner, linguist, analyst and a popular blogger at A Walk in the Clouds has fans in 185 countries around the world.
“I wanted to be an archaeologist in order to be able to have the skills talk to the ancient child who left her hand-print in the stone pillar of her mother’s sarcophagus in the necropolis of the ancient city of Laodicea. You could feel the grief of that small child in that single hand print.
Then I wanted to be an engineer, a space traveling engineer after I saw the Star Wars for the first time on TV. In fact, I nailed all my mother’s metal pots, and their lids to a mulberry tree, connecting them with wires and linking them to a ten foot antenna in an effort to create an array of my version of satellites to talk to the aliens ~as Star Wars indicated existed~ when I was nine years old.
I wanted to be a scientist who cured a disease like Pasteur did, or come up with an invention that benefited humanity.
I wanted to be kick-ass martial artists, a race car driver, a skydiver, a rock climber, become an explorer like Captain Cousteau, or float on a river running between the towering canyon walls in a canoe like Lewis and Clark.
In fact, I wanted to be many, many things, and thought that it was unfair that we had one lifetime to achieve all our ambitions.”
She studied a lot & found it very unfortunate that we all have one lifetime to achieve all our ambitions. So, she became a linguist where she could utilize most what she had learned. Suffice to say that linguistics, translations & research in various languages forged constant learning, study of diverse topics & almost no redundancy. How could she not love it? In the end it led her to her purpose in life: Writing. So, what defines her?
Simple. Like Mark Twain said: "Explore. Dream. Discover."view less