http://www.wiredgeek.com/taxonomy/term/223 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.wiredgeek.com/node/666 <div class="content"> <p>It is currently midnight in California and 9am in Sweden (my current location) which makes me offficially 28 years old right now! Wow... 28. </p><p><strong><em>I&#39;m getting old.</em></strong>  </p><p>aaahh. I have so much more to do with my life and I&#39;m so far behind the curve. I&#39;m not married yet, I don&#39;t own a house and I don&#39;t have any kids. My life is ruined what am I going to do! Oh wait... that&#39;s right I don&#39;t care so much for cultural standards!</p><p>Ha! I&#39;m not old, I&#39;m just getting started. F* the house, F* the kids and marriage t.... oh wait, I&#39;m engaged. Ok the marriage thing can stay (now we&#39;ll just have to decide on a wedding date.. oh some day, some day).</p><p>30 is, however, right around the corner and I still can&#39;t fluently or conversationaly speak a second language. A while back I <a href="/node/165">blogged</a> about learning spanish with the goal of fluency and/or conversational by the age of 30. Unfortunately I fell into a very typical routine and focused more on work than on my personal development (i.e. learning a language). </p><p><em><strong>No more! </strong></em></p><p>I will be conversational in a second language by the time I&#39;m 30 and if I have to move to a foreign country to do it, so be it! I&#39;m putting Spanish on hold and Diana and I are moving to China. If I can&#39;t learn Chinese in China then I&#39;m hopeless. I&#39;ll move back to the states, buy a trailer home, park it in an old drive-in movie theater and sell beer can wind chimes until I finally drop dead at the ripe old age of 50. </p><p>Ok so now that I&#39;m professed my desire to learn a second language lets move on. </p><p>Today for my birthday Diana and I are going to wander the streets of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg">Gothenburg, Sweden</a> where we have been for the past two days. In the evening we&#39;re meeting up with Lisa and Damien, whom we&#39;ve been staying with, for Dinner and then we&#39;re off to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel">Kiel, Germany</a>! </p><p>We have absolutely zero idea of what is in Kiel, Germany and apparently, according to Wikipedia, after WWII there isn&#39;t much left to Kiel (80+% what destroyed in bombings and never rebuilt). The only thing we are doing is tracking down <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6ner_kebab">Döner, Kebabs</a> and possibly getting train tickets to Hamburg ;). I think we can find something to do for a day (or two) before we head up to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen">Copenhagen, Denmark</a>. </p><p>Every day you travel without having a clue with what to do is a good day. </p><p>I&#39;ll write again when we&#39;re in Germany or Denmark! Pictures in the gallery! </p><br class="clear" /> </div> http://www.wiredgeek.com/node/666#comments birthday ferries germany Scandinavia-May-2007 sweden travels 57.695662 11.914415 Fri, 11 May 2007 07:25:33 +0000 Jacob Redding 666 at http://www.wiredgeek.com