Listen.

Listen. I'd love to update you, but i cant...there is simply too much. Let me attempt to give you the run down via quotes and buzzwords.

Funny things natlie says: "I know my brain is telling me to, but i don't want to hit you"
"conversation rocks!"
(on my way to hip hop class) "you're going to hippo class?"
( to fi, at dance class, out of the blue) " are you a penguin?"
(while walking past an Indonesian woman) "INDIA!"
(while walking past a Pakistani woman) "INDIA!"
(while eating with her hands) "INDIA!"
(when choosing the wii character that has a bindi) "INDIA!"
....natlie really likes India, but were having trouble get her to grasp the difference between Indian people and American Indians....hmm.

running running running with anderson cooper, cnn has become so comfortable.
learning learning, mandarin is not as hard as i thought.
dance dance dance....yo yo wants to get married, and i was early to class.
Fi Fi Fi....the girl is hilarious.
Fresh fruit
Coffee
New books
pin yin
man jeans
plans plans plans
no plans
sunshine
freeze tag
language language...talk talk talk
procrastinate
run run
think think
eat eat
guilt guilt
read read read
ache ache
time change
class class class
study study
restless
sweden?

Not to mention the many realizations Im coming to surrounding language. I love it. Oh my god i love it. its so pretty, its so pretty, its so pretty. How do i love thee? why do i love thee? let me count the ways...

1.it controls your mind, and to learn more languages is to free it, to think aglottia is to challenge it. Language is nothing but agreement that "hat" means the thing you put on your head when its cold.
2.Thai people laugh online like like this " 55555" because the thai word for 5 is pronounced "ha", Spanish speaking people laugh like this "jajajajaja" for obvious reasons.
3. It effects your relationships, once you have the ability to speak another tongue and express yourself in it, you will constantly be struggling to make yourself fully understood. Its a can of worms..but in theory, the more multi lingual a couple is together, the closer they are because that many more ways of expressing themselves exactly as they mean. Its just probability.
4. It effects your psyche, and cognitive biases, ie..gender image, self image, sexual desires, understanding of caution, and ability to memorize and think about objects and relationships to them.
5.It connects us, it makes us human, it excludes us from most other animals, our language system is incredibly complex and intricate and seasoned. It is deeply intertwined with culture.
6.People speak the translation in their own understanding of it, for instance chinese people invert their questions....You want go where? Ni yao qu nali? So do i...for instance, "yidian dian dian etc.." a little bit...so i now say...." a little little little bit..etc" instead of just a small amount or a little. Likewise, ive added question indicators to the ends of my sentences, as with Chinese..."ma?" is added to make a question...like..."ni hao ma?" ( how are you) so now i catch myself saying things like.... "You are good, yes?" or "It is this one, yes?"
7. It feels good to say, it tastes good in my mouth, and its gratifying to understand, and be understood.
8.its incredibly vast, like biodiversity, and corresponding to almost every other discipline, it is a fluid concept, and can be manifested as most anything.
9.Spoken language, It will betray you. It cannot rival art or touch in its ability to communicate.
10. it is both scientific and quantifiable, and poetic and nonsensical.
11.It allows for funny situations...creator of the classic "lost in translation" phenomenon, and reason behind websites like chinglish.com...language is the best comedian.
12.Its associative...and adapts to what it can, through the body.
13. How babies babble...how babies are born with the ability to make any sound.
14. it creates little triumphs, it will excite and encourage you
15.It equals and creates identity. Portia told me she feels like a different person in English than she does in Chinese.
16. Its exclusive, hard, and liberating, and it explains human patterns more than most fields because it links most of them together.
17.It gives you power beyond what you are sometimes aware of..ie..Natlie is the only true bilingual person during the day at the house...if she doesn't cooperate, she can do anything she wants...turn Jane and i against each other...or build us up...she can get what she wants easily if she is aware enough.
18.It is manifest from necessity, a need to be understood. language uses itself, to study itself, and that is really unbelievable.
19. it is possible to read Chinese without being able to speak it.
20. I like to think about exactly when the Phoenician symbols became Greek, became Roman, like what day, what hour, who flipped the a sideways? and why? was it a mistake? did his girlfriend give him shit that morning and he decided to condense the alphabet to spite her? you are what you say more than you are what you eat, and less than that too..because your words will always betray you, and they will always be your greatest resource.