It was called to my attention yesterday by Michael that we never explained the reason this blog is named "are you fluent in english" I will enlighten you while i sit here bored out of my mind at work. On our second day in Olympia, Jo and I were standing at a bus stop. This odd man was talking to us. I was still in obnoxious new yorker mode, and wondering why in the world this guys was talking to me, so I kinda nodded along, as Jo slowly moved away from this man.

After a little while of one sided conversation, the man said "are you fluent in english" I was about to give him my best obnoxious nooooo, until i realized where we were and said no, fairly politely. He then asked if we were from Canada, and I said no we are from New York. THe bus finally came and we could not understand why this guy would think we didn't speak english. Then it occured to us, since we weren't responding to him, he assumed we didn't understand him.

It was the perfect welcome to Olympia conversation, and now we make sure to have indepth conversations with every stranger we met... our parents are so proud that they taught us well.

As a side note... ME AND JO ARE GOING TO ALASKA! we are so excited.
anyway back to pretending to work

Dara