I found this article on another blog, and found it highly interesting.

Benefits of biligualism

According to a report on ScienceDaily, speaking two languages may help stave off dementia by up four years compared to people who are monolingual. Being bilingual, along with physical activity, education and social engagement help to build “cognitive ( Read more... )

Whoohoo for the New Year. And Christmas. I still haven't gotten all my presents yet, and I won't be until April, apparently...awesome ( Read more... )

Not as long as the last journal, though...

So I finally got a cybernations. It's quite fun building up your nation, and it's a LOT better than nationstates. You actually have control over most of the goings-on in the nation, rather than it being arbitrarily assigned, such as nationstates.

Also, my IRP book came in yesterday. A Connecticut Yankee ( Read more... )

So yeah, I probably completely forgot about this thing. Not to mention I've been swamped with schoolwork and the like ( Read more... )

I got a new icon :) It's Gay-Yee from Bond. There's one with Tania on it, and it says Violist, if you're interested Rachel.

Credit to n0tes, from the community n0tes_icons

You know that your life is slowly devloving into nothing when you play backgammon to avoid doing homework...

So, obvious extenuating circumstances forced me to miss Allison and McKenzie's party...*tear* Oh well, Allison said that she would get my a goodie bag :)

I am so looking forward to reading The Scarlet Letter...yeah, right...

My Chinese<> ( Read more... )

The weekend cannot come soon enough. Either that or the end of Driver's Ed [which I might miss anyway to do a Model UN conference, anyway...]

Today, I swashbuckled my way through unchartered rainforests ( Read more... )

I got my CAPT results back (FINALLY ( Read more... )

So I received an invitiation to McKenzie's and Allison Dziuba's joint 17th birthday party. Whoever wrote the invitations (no offense to whoever did -_-) really had a lot of time on their hands ( Read more... )