Sup fools.

O shit its two months away. Ya’ll ready for this? I hope so ‘cause it’s not that big a commitment for you, and if you weren’t ready for it, well that’s just weird since I’m the one flying across the ocean to a new country.

BUT I DIGRESS.

Just a small pondering today, languages! I only know English (I mean I can say like three words in French and Spanish but I’m basically useless), so I will undoubtedly end up in some place where body language will be the prime method of communication, and that’s gonna be fun for a limited amount of time only. When I was considering WWOOFing I said to myself, “Ben, you’re a piece of shit,” to which I replied, “No, fuck you, you’re a piece of shit.” I also said to myself that I didn’t want to WWOOF somewhere where English wasn’t the primary language, because I figured that the whole “try to derp through the language barrier of English and German or whatever” thing would be fun for maybe a week or two, but I’d probably grow tired of it relatively quickly. Sure, there’s tons of people over there that speak English, but they’re not everywhere, and if I were to live in a different country for six months, as was my plan, I’d want to be able to talk to people easily after the charm of the language wears off. So my point is that I need to learn at least 3 languages fluently while I’m over there yup that’s the plan here we go.

Also, I wonder just how far my shitty, awful, broken French and Spanish will take me. I figure it would only take me a few days of being in, let’s say, Germany to get my (nonexistent) German to the point I’m at with my French and Spanish. So yay, I get a three day head start on those two I guess. I’d really love to live somewhere with the express purpose of learning the language, but that’s not what this trip is for. Maybe sometime in the future I’ll carve out a little niche in some mountain near Stockholm and learn how to speak Swedish. That’d be nice.

Bonus, if you speak Swedish give me a ring-a-ling and let’s do a thing-a-ling