Whilst the rest of the University sleeps, I am here at the Language Resource Center ready to welcome the language learning masses.

The weekend was a festive one: The fireworks display in Ithaca, on none other than Canada Day, was much more extravagant than the display my one-cow town in North Dakota puts on. I hung out with my new Puerto Rican friend Jose Antonio, went out for Thai food, and Canadian folk artist James Gordon made me laugh and cry, as any good folk artist will do, at Bound for Glory (Listen Sundays at 7:30pm on WVBR.com). Not a traditional way of showing my patriotism on independence day, but perhaps just as appropriate?