"When I speak Polish now, it is infiltrated, permeated, and inflected with English in my head. Each language modifies the other, crossbreeds with it, fertilizes it. Each language makes the other relative. Like everybody, I am the sum of my languages." ~Eva Hoffman Although explaining that I was going to school in Minnesota (where, yes, it is cold. You know no one have ever told me that.) involved a lot of jokes including the words "Yeah, sure, you betcha" I had no idea that... read more