another sunny day.
so i have fallen in love with my local library. oh man. i went in there yesterday to get a library card and was practically overwhelmed by the sheer number of books and magazines and cds and etc. on foreign language learning. oh man. i was looking in the polish section [they had a whole polish section; at my old library we didn't even have one book on poland, let alone polish] and i put my hand on one little book i couldn't see clearly and it was a book on finnish. they have rows and rows of japanese and chinese books and comics, and this huge section on russian as well. i was in heaven. they have this esl group for adults that looked awesome, and i may go back and ask if they ever need english-speaking volunteers. oh man. every day i like this place more and more.
so thanksgiving is coming up and the roommates and i are starting to get excited. we are holding it at our house this year for the three of us plus seattleboy and roommate's sister. the other morning i spent like an hour making cooking spreadsheets in excel and looking up turkey recipes. i've made thanksgiving before [minus the turkey] so i'm pretty confident that we can do this. this is my first thanksgiving away from home though! it feels weird. i was talking to one of my friends back home yesterday about how i feel more like a grown-up now that i live here. it's weird. but whatever.
oh and hey, here is a meme from sleepywaltz!
▪ Leave me a comment saying "My hovercraft is full of eels."
▪ I'll respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.
▪ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
▪ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
Would you ever want to be immortal?
i don't really know! sometimes i think i would, because how awesome would it be to see how much things change over the years and all that, but i always end up thinking about how...tired i'd get, i guess, of living for that long. i don't know. mortality is a weird thing. i think what i'd really like to do is like, go back in time, and then be immortal. like, i'd start in roman times and just hang out until modernity. i am probably not making any sense but this is my answer nonetheless.
What’s your most obscure pairing?
oh man, i have a bunch of obscure pairings. america/austria makes no sense but it's so fun. greece/sweden makes even less sense but i like them together too much to care. belgium/england doesn't get enough love, and i don't think anything even exists for america/belgium. estonia/iceland and estonia/sweden are historically awesome but i haven't seen a lot for either.
um. yeah.
Would you rather have an enjoyable job that paid an okay amount or a boring and stressful job where you get paid a whole lot?
oh, the first one, for sure. i already know that with my major and interests in general, i am not going to make a lot of money with any of my career paths, and i am totally okay with that.
If you had to move to another country, which would it be?
this is a hard one! i really wouldn't mind living anywhere, to be honest. i know that i want to live in canada for a while [and will hopefully do that through study abroad once i get into portland state]. i also want to live in japan because i am a nerd, and i have this vague dream of living in helsinki or stockholm for a year or two. i also am randomly set on living in hong kong for a while. yeah. basically, i don't really see myself staying in the us for an extended period of time after graduation if i can help it.
Do you get embarrassed easily?
i used to! in the past few years, however, i have just kind of stopped caring. everybody does embarrassing stuff sometimes, including me. that's just life, man.
so thanksgiving is coming up and the roommates and i are starting to get excited. we are holding it at our house this year for the three of us plus seattleboy and roommate's sister. the other morning i spent like an hour making cooking spreadsheets in excel and looking up turkey recipes. i've made thanksgiving before [minus the turkey] so i'm pretty confident that we can do this. this is my first thanksgiving away from home though! it feels weird. i was talking to one of my friends back home yesterday about how i feel more like a grown-up now that i live here. it's weird. but whatever.
oh and hey, here is a meme from sleepywaltz!
▪ Leave me a comment saying "My hovercraft is full of eels."
▪ I'll respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.
▪ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
▪ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
Would you ever want to be immortal?
i don't really know! sometimes i think i would, because how awesome would it be to see how much things change over the years and all that, but i always end up thinking about how...tired i'd get, i guess, of living for that long. i don't know. mortality is a weird thing. i think what i'd really like to do is like, go back in time, and then be immortal. like, i'd start in roman times and just hang out until modernity. i am probably not making any sense but this is my answer nonetheless.
What’s your most obscure pairing?
oh man, i have a bunch of obscure pairings. america/austria makes no sense but it's so fun. greece/sweden makes even less sense but i like them together too much to care. belgium/england doesn't get enough love, and i don't think anything even exists for america/belgium. estonia/iceland and estonia/sweden are historically awesome but i haven't seen a lot for either.
um. yeah.
Would you rather have an enjoyable job that paid an okay amount or a boring and stressful job where you get paid a whole lot?
oh, the first one, for sure. i already know that with my major and interests in general, i am not going to make a lot of money with any of my career paths, and i am totally okay with that.
If you had to move to another country, which would it be?
this is a hard one! i really wouldn't mind living anywhere, to be honest. i know that i want to live in canada for a while [and will hopefully do that through study abroad once i get into portland state]. i also want to live in japan because i am a nerd, and i have this vague dream of living in helsinki or stockholm for a year or two. i also am randomly set on living in hong kong for a while. yeah. basically, i don't really see myself staying in the us for an extended period of time after graduation if i can help it.
Do you get embarrassed easily?
i used to! in the past few years, however, i have just kind of stopped caring. everybody does embarrassing stuff sometimes, including me. that's just life, man.