Back in my day, we had to go into the service for two years after high school. I studied Russian in the air force, and when we went into the university I wanted to study something from a non-European culture instead of French or German like everyone else.
在我們那個時代，高中畢業要當兩年兵；我在空軍服役時就已經修了兩年俄文，所以進大學時，一般同學選修法文、德文，我覺得「不耐煩」，很想多學一點歐洲文化之外的東西。