Training has been overwhelming. But I have promised myself some time away from training/studying. Yesterday I spent that time in the gym. Which was nice for many reasons but none more significant than it gave me an opportunity to be surrounded by english. From stationary bikes to treadmills, to machines to free weights- all were in english. So, for today's time off I will return to my blog. This, I hope, will be the first installment of a random series of blogs that are less formal. We will call this Jake's View- great name for a column. In this particular series I will discuss random notes that I take down or cultural differences I notice from time to time. I hope to create a list of oddities that I have discovered over the course of
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