Your grandma is very intelligent! It also sounds like she been through a lot? But I imagine she has a lot of things to talk about, but she seems really cool. I wish I knew more about my grandma and my dad’s side of my family, like you do. I just know my grandma was born in New Mexico, and that from my dad side is that we’re Hispanic, but that’s about it. I really want to get to know my grandma more, but it feels like I can’t ask to her about what her family like or what it was like for her growing up. Oh also it would be cool to learn Arabic to, especially with like how beautiful the writing of that language is.

I’m trying to pick up learning Spanish again, I took a quite a few classes in the past however I kind of forgot almost all of it. I also remember my grandma trying to teach Spanish to me as well, and it would be nice to make her happy that I learned it. There are a few other languages that I would love to learn like Russian or Mandarin, but I have a problem of getting too distracted and then I don’t end up learning anything because I spread myself to thin and don’t get anything done. So Spanish for now, hopefully!

Happy birthday! Hope your day goes well!

I really like this quote from Marx, since it helps me sometimes to push through reading a lot of material.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.