"Thinking Fluently"

Part of learning to talk like a native

is learning how to think like one

{or so my language professors & quadrilingual Pére tell me}.

So, I picked up the funnies today and read.

Here's a favorite:

「離さない！」

１０年経つと　

「話さない！」

"I'll never let you go!"

...10 years down the road...

"Never talk to me again!"

{It's funny because both

離さない and 話さない

are pronounced the same way:

hanasanai!}

I giggled with one of the teachers about it

for six minutes straight.

But, thinking realistically,

I really do hope

that 91 days from now,

when my best friend parts ways with his beautiful England

to fly home to America,

I can leave behind my

high school sweetheart shallowness

and wade in a little deeper

with him.

{Images via P.S. I love you & this is reallllll}