As a third gen native Californian, I grew up in the Southern California schools being taught a lot of Spanish. But I kick myself now for not taking it seriously enough...though I have a ton of words rattling around in me, and I think I could learn Spanish pretty quickly. I have now been in Switzerland a year, trying to learn High ("Hoch") Geramn, while everyone else around me speaks Swiss German dialects...and this REALLY isn't German...so I'm betwixt and between, because everyone tells me to learn hoch Deutsch, but no one speaks it...and when I try out my German, everyone wants to practice their English!! Oh, well...ich bin am lernen Deutsch sprechen, aber ist langsam process!!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia