Naw, Tam's Canadian. She's one of two people from her hometown that I know, and one of three people from Canada who I have as friends. :)

That rain I was talking about sounded like big hail, but it was just water!

Edmonton Canada. And the cold is rare nowdays.

Let me live in your dog house D:
I want to see snow before I die!

Sorry, mdon. You're outta luck. I don't even have a ME house. LOL

So I went to a party last night (first time in almost two years that I've felt like going to an event for the group hosting the party), and we played a game called Iceberg Races, where we had to kneel/lay on scooters made to look like the tops of icebergs... The idea was that we'd pull ourselves along the floor using plungers, but that wasn't working so well, so we all pretty much abandoned the idea and pulled ourselves along with our hands... I ended up with a couple of parting gifts...

The second "parting gift" looks heart-shaped x'D.

Plungering the floor sounds fun though

It was a good concept, but the floor wasn't cooperating. lol

Huh? Heart? *looks* Oh yeah. Huh.

*dives into a pile of books*

I was just reading another autobiography of people who wrote down a language for the first time, and I was struck by the different reactions that people have to being able to read in their own language for the first time. Some of them are indifferent and don't see any need for it. Others, you have a riot the day the first book is made, even if it's just an ABC book.

That's for adults who read in their own language for the first time..?

I guess so. *shrug*

It's for whole people groups who read in their own language for the first time.

Ohhh, okay. Is this they start off illiterate in all languages or they know a language not their own :o?

It's people from one of the hundreds of language groups whose languages have never been written down yet. Many can't read in anything because the official language from the schools is so different from their own that they have a hella time learning it. And there are, even now days, some people who have never seen a book of any kind in their lives.

WHERE BE MY LAWTAN BUDDY