Yesterday I was talking with my new friend Melina, who is from Mexico City. We were just shooting the breeze in Spanish when she stopped and said, "You know, you really do speak Spanish with a Venezuelan accent. It's funny. You don't even sound like an American."
That's about the best compliment a foreign language geek can receive, I think.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
The week my PhD genius brother came home to play with me
For a kid who has 5 brothers and sisters, I spend an amazing amount of time feeling like an only child. My younger brother came home for Christmas this year. It was nice to have some sibling company we quickly returned to our normal habits :
Watching the Discovery Channel...
Watching the Discovery Channel and pretending like mom hasn't already taken 20 pictures of us...
Going on a hike and putting all those years of watching The Kids in the Hall to good use...
And then there was the photo shoot... Supposedly we're the same height, but each of us claims to be taller than the other. I'm taller. That's the truth. We took turns standing in a hole just in case.
Watching the Discovery Channel...
Watching the Discovery Channel and pretending like mom hasn't already taken 20 pictures of us...
Going on a hike and putting all those years of watching The Kids in the Hall to good use...
And then there was the photo shoot... Supposedly we're the same height, but each of us claims to be taller than the other. I'm taller. That's the truth. We took turns standing in a hole just in case.
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