February 2012
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“Me gustas pero tengo miedo de fallar en el amor.”
– Don Omar
Shy Girl’s Guide to Independent Travel →
Use your skills
Speaking a second language while traveling can be beneficial for more than just asking directions. It’s an automatic “in” for talking to new people. There have been many times where I’ve heard people wandering around lost or trying to find a specific item in a store, but they can’t read the sign. If it’s a language I speak, I’ll often offer to help the lost travelers find what...
“Perhaps—I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am...”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (via bookmania)
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A YOUNG SPANISH TRANSLATOR
badassmexicans:
Remember when you were young and had to translate for your parents, and there were some words that at age 7 you just didn’t know the meaning of in Spanish so your translations sounded a bit like this. “Ma dice el señor que el pago del mortgage no va a cambiar con el rate y todo va a quedarse fixed por 30 años”.
haha ooh the memories.
BAM
“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful,...”
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye (via bookmania)
“You know how you think you’re going to meet André and he’s going to be totally...”
– James Murphy talks to us about collaborating with Damon Albarn and André 3000. (via pitchfork)
Notebook Stories →
How do you keep yourself from just buying and buying new ones without filling up the old ones first?
I don’t!
The Pen Addict →
More of a No. 2 pencil addict. There are worse addictions…right?
“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via bookmania)
