So I haven't written a post in quite a bit so I figured I may as well write one tonight while I thought about it and had things to talk about.

So I went to the shore on Monday. That's the Jersey shore for those of you not in the know. For people from my area, when you say you're going to the shore, that's the shore you're going to. If you're going to like, Virginia Beach or somewhere, that's not the shore. That's Virginia Beach, not the shore. So I went to the shore on Monday and I came home today. I went to Sea Isle. My friend and her family go to a house there every summer and I usually go down to hang out, which is what I did this week. We also went to Cape May to go to a zoo there. The zoo was a bit small, but it was free and it wasn't bad. It was kind of cute actually.

Oh, and my friend and I saw a dead horseshoe crab on the beach when we took a walk there on Monday. It was kind of gross and at first, we didn't know what it was (we knew what it was, we just couldn't think of the name and we realized that it was a horseshoe crab when we went to the zoo and saw a picture of one). So we thought about the dead crab after walking by it and then on the way back, we either saw it again or we saw another crab. If it was another crab, then the first one had disappeared from the spot we'd first seen it. If it was the same crab, we couldn't figure out how the hell it'd gotten so far from the spot we'd first seen it at, especially since we were pretty sure it had been dead. So yeah. Ew.

And then we saw a ghost crab one night. My friend's little brother had seen it actually, so we all went out to look. It was dark so it was kind of hard to see, but when we saw it, this car was pulling out of the driveway across the street and it was going to start going out of the street, but then the crab moved and my friend's aunt yelled because it freaked her out and the people in the car were like, "WTF?!" and they got out and saw the crab. I thought the crab was cute. My friend did not.

So, aside from all that fun, I decided that I want to learn Swedish. I don't really know why I want to know it aside from that I like the way it sounds and I think it could be fun to speak, even if I'll probably never get to Sweden. It'd also be an interesting change, since it's different than French, Spanish, Japanese, and English. French, English, and Spanish are all kind of in the same group for me because French and Spanish are Romance languages and English takes from both. Japanese has its own special spot because it's Japanese. And then Swedish gets its own spot because it's not quite like the other three. I mean, just look at the names: English; Français; Español; 日本語 (にほんご - nihongo); and Svenska.

Speaking of Spanish, even though I've barely studied it at all (I took it for a couple of years in elementary school and then quit because the other kids were annoying), people often think I'm taking Spanish anyway. This is probably because I have a Spanish last name (Blanco) and/or because I'm kind of Latina (I'm 25% Puerto Rican). Oh, and probably also because friggin' everyone takes Spanish in school because they think it's easier. The next time someone asks me if I'm studying Spanish, I'm gonna be like, "Non," and they'll just think I said "no" in a weird way and they'll ask, "Is it hard?" and I'll be like, "Je ne sais pas. J'étudie le français."

But yeah, I'll get to Spanish one day. It's probably not a good idea to study multiple languages at the same time, but if I had to, I think I could manage. Actually, I don't really need to say "it's probably not" because I know it's not totally a good idea. I'm waiting for the day my French teacher will ask me something and without thinking, I'll answer in Japanese. That sort of thing has happened in class before, but with Spanish and Italian, not Japanese.

But yeah.

TTFN.

Oh, and hur är det is an informal way of saying "How are you?" in Swedish.

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