Happy Anniversary

I'd like to wish Rainy Monday in Reykjavik a happy anniversary. As of March 3, she's been living in Iceland for a year. What I like best about her post regarding the big event is this line, in reference to her difficulty learning Icelandic: "But don't, you know, just wander up and ask me a question without laying out some context first, because words that I know perfectly well suddenly sound like Sims chatter when coming unwarranted from a total stranger."

First of all, I know 'Sims chatter' all too well as Sigh Club is a recovering Sims addict. And, as far as the language learning thing goes, myself, I've tried several times to learn languages (German, French, Spanish, and, hehe, Old Irish) but have failed miserably each time. I remember being in a Munich beer garden ordering a sausage and a beer and getting instead a seltzer water and a beer. I still don't know what I said. And, that same day, my friend John, who was living there at the time, telling me to meet him at some place that I thought he called "Cafe Andruni" that turned out to be--when I finally found it--"Cafe an der Uni."

But, at any rate, good luck to Rainy Monday with the language learning and congratulations on your milestone.