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In hopes of improving my foreign language skills, I opened Skype and for the first time, dared to interact with strangers. While I had the most amount of fun possible on the Internet, I failed to utter more than a handful of words in another language. I’m a shy perfectionist and thus… I’m scared.

I did- however, manage to cover all of my bases. A man from Africa saw my obviously French name and weaseled a few French words out of me. When I confessed to being interested in Korea and Japan, I was forced to say hello in those tongues and to answer questions about the time. It was scary!

I need confidence! If only I studied…

I was in a Skype chat room for a little more than an hour. At any given point in time, there were never more than ten people and YET, one of them was an alumnus of my high school! wtf. It was 2-something in the morning. We were the only two people from an English-speaking country in there & we attended the same school… that’s crazy.

I’m always meeting people who I know in random airports or in foreign countries or meeting friends of friends while out on these trips. It’s so weird to be on the other side of the earth and to have a stranger ask, "Hey, do you know X? I met him in Taiwan!"

I’ve started adding photos to S.A. Waltz again.

Also, feel free to add me on Skype (my id: aeri.elle).