W, X, Y, and Z

Ha ha! Take that, Icelandic language.

I’ve been working with a pocket dictionary and asked my teacher to recommend a more comprehensive one, which I picked up on the way home from class yesterday. Last night while doing my homework, I discovered that my brand-new dictionary was missing WXYZ and most of U in the English section. I was not amused. I need those words.

So today, after class I went to the store and explained that I had purchased the book yesterday and that at it didn’t have those pages, and I did it all in Icelandic! I even used past tense, which I only learned this week. Ha! Ha ha! Mind you, I had to rehearse the phrases all the way from class to the store, but I figured them out on my own without having to look things up. My phrasing may have been odd, but lord bless them, the clerks at the bookstore did not switch to English. I feel so powerful.

I’m going to go out and take over the world now.

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