2. Great list. Mine is shorter, I would start with Swedish--I am "reasonably fluent", but it would be fabulous to understand everything, and be able to say anything without having to look up how.
3. My last ferry trip was heading over to Lofoten this summer, though when I read the question, the first "last ferry trip" I remembered was heading over to Finland in January of 2020 for Drachenwald Coronation, which was the last SCA event I attended before the pandemic started canceling them. Never mind that I also took a ferry home from Crown Tourney in Finland a year ago, the pre-pandemic one is still engraved in my mind as "the last one", for obvious reasons.
4. I have absolutely no idea, I have flown back and forth around the planet so often, I couldn't begin to guess which trip would have been longest. Possibly one of the flights in the 1960's? Were planes slower then? I don't recall the flight itself, but flying to the states from Japan when I was 3 years old and had the chickenpox and only wanted to sit in mom's lap, but she was 8 months pregnant with my sister, and so didn't really have a lap probably felt like an eternity to me.
5. If I discovered a country, it would probably already have a name from the people who lived there, so I would ask them what it is, and respect them enough to use it. If no one lives there, it isn't a country.
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Date: 2024-10-12 01:18 pm (UTC)2. Great list. Mine is shorter, I would start with Swedish--I am "reasonably fluent", but it would be fabulous to understand everything, and be able to say anything without having to look up how.
3. My last ferry trip was heading over to Lofoten this summer, though when I read the question, the first "last ferry trip" I remembered was heading over to Finland in January of 2020 for Drachenwald Coronation, which was the last SCA event I attended before the pandemic started canceling them. Never mind that I also took a ferry home from Crown Tourney in Finland a year ago, the pre-pandemic one is still engraved in my mind as "the last one", for obvious reasons.
4. I have absolutely no idea, I have flown back and forth around the planet so often, I couldn't begin to guess which trip would have been longest. Possibly one of the flights in the 1960's? Were planes slower then? I don't recall the flight itself, but flying to the states from Japan when I was 3 years old and had the chickenpox and only wanted to sit in mom's lap, but she was 8 months pregnant with my sister, and so didn't really have a lap probably felt like an eternity to me.
5. If I discovered a country, it would probably already have a name from the people who lived there, so I would ask them what it is, and respect them enough to use it. If no one lives there, it isn't a country.