28 schweet years

It is currently midnight in California and 9am in Sweden (my current location) which makes me offficially 28 years old right now! Wow... 28.

I'm getting old.  

aaahh. I have so much more to do with my life and I'm so far behind the curve. I'm not married yet, I don't own a house and I don't have any kids. My life is ruined what am I going to do! Oh wait... that's right I don't care so much for cultural standards!

Ha! I'm not old, I'm just getting started. F* the house, F* the kids and marriage t.... oh wait, I'm engaged. Ok the marriage thing can stay (now we'll just have to decide on a wedding date.. oh some day, some day).

30 is, however, right around the corner and I still can't fluently or conversationaly speak a second language. A while back I blogged 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). 

No more! 

I will be conversational in a second language by the time I'm 30 and if I have to move to a foreign country to do it, so be it! I'm putting Spanish on hold and Diana and I are moving to China. If I can't learn Chinese in China then I'm hopeless. I'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. 

Ok so now that I'm professed my desire to learn a second language lets move on. 

Today for my birthday Diana and I are going to wander the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden where we have been for the past two days. In the evening we're meeting up with Lisa and Damien, whom we've been staying with, for Dinner and then we're off to Kiel, Germany! 

We have absolutely zero idea of what is in Kiel, Germany and apparently, according to Wikipedia, after WWII there isn't much left to Kiel (80+% what destroyed in bombings and never rebuilt). The only thing we are doing is tracking down Döner, Kebabs 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 Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Every day you travel without having a clue with what to do is a good day. 

I'll write again when we're in Germany or Denmark! Pictures in the gallery!