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Lamy has two rollerball pens that are both nice looking and nice to write with: the Lamy Swift (http://www.lamyusa.com/swift.html) and the Lamy Tipo (http://www.lamyusa.com/tipoaluminium.html), both of which are available in more colors than are shown on this website.

They both use Lamy's famous M66 refill, which writes incredibly smoothly. The tipo is more expensive because of its design - the clip retracts when you're using the pen so that you can't attach it to something (like your shirt) without disengaging the writing tip. Even if you end up finding that the tip is too thick for you, it's worth a try to see the difference between a ball point pen and a rollerball, which used to be referred to as a poor man's fountain pen.

A lot of asian grocery stores carry very fine tipped pens and pencils, but they're not exactly the high-end kind.

Jeepster, Chinese is tough as shit, but no doubt well worth it. My native language is English, I'm fluent in French (well, quebecois), Spanish, and I'm decent in Ilocano (a Filipino dialect which has no similarity to Chinese), but when I started learning Chinese (Mandarin) a year ago, it blew my mind. I actually went to Shanghai for the summer to do a study abroad program there, so I was able to pick up quite a bit, but when I came back and wasn't surrounded by the language, it became that much harder to keep up with it.

I can't remember for sure if it was on here that I saw it, but there was a link to a U.S. government web page ranking all of the languages by difficulty. French and Spanish were level 1, which means they're relatively easy, and on the other side of the spectrum were Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, which are, incidentally, the languages they need most.

Of course i'm pro-learning languages so I would say go for it, but it's definitely going to be tough.

For Chinese, I used this software called Chinese Odyssey, which was great. Has anyone had any experience with Rosetta Stone? Is it worth it?

make sure you eat some poutine - french fries covered in gravy and cheese curds (not your ordinary gravy fries). it's a quebecois staple so they sell them everywhere, but my favorite is the one they sell at st. hubert and kfc, both of which can be found everywhere in montreal.

could i have a medium red 2001 fine jersey short sleeve t-shirt, a small black 5495 pullover hoodie, and the small asphalt/navy london hoodie please?

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