//------------------------------// // Day 3 // Story: Cinnamon's Journal // by Mocha Star //------------------------------// Day 3 Toosday January 12 We were in for a shock later in the day but it started fine enough.  We got up, made our beds and made sure the rooms were tidy before we went downstairs to start breakfast. We had some cans of tomato so we opened them and used them as our juice while we ate oats and eggs and some of the leftover vegetables from our guest party last night. It was still bitterly cold out so I thought about turning one of the rooms into an exercise room with a few weights and treadmill.  I hope they have those here. We watched TV and last track of time and before we knew it it was nearly 10 in the morning.  We decided to bundle up and go to the downtown again and see if our friends were at the Subway. We put on our pendants and got dressed we were leaving our side of the house when I tripped over a bible that was left at our doorstep.  We took it inside and put it on a bookshelf with the other one and decided we needed to learn to read human as well as get more books. A few human children books to help us learn and dictionaries weren't going to help us in the long term.  We made it to Subway and when we started taking and listening they couldn't understand us. We took out our dictionaries and used what little human we could but we couldn't talk with them and most of our friends weren't there anyway. We took too long to order our sandwiches by pointing and saying what we wanted in Equestrian before practicing the human words for them. We thanked the cooks and sat at a table and practiced the words, poorly, until a woman came over and spoke to us and gave is a card and told us her name is Omara. We took her card and put it in my saddlebag since I was the only one wearing them and went back home to quiz each other and watch TV.  We found stations that were obviously made for children and we watched the shows to learn how the words work. We didn't understand well but we practiced the words a lot.  We spent time between shows taking with human words that didn't go together but we got some sounds better. Pôlta is , for example.  But that only applies to a certain context like is how we say pôlta ëå.  And there are a lot of grunt kind of sounds that are silly but necessary. We called Written Letter and explained that we had to start at the beginning for human since the magic had worn off, even though we didn't know it would, and she said that we will have to take a language class. It turns out a lot of the world doesn't speak one language and they have classes to teach English to others.  So our helpers said they would set it up for us all and let us know when we could start, but to not get our hopes up because it could be weeks and that made us nervous. We ate our sandwiches from Subway for a late lunch and practiced English the whole day until we couldn't think anymore and decided to watch TV. We didn't get lost in the various shows this time and spent time playing with each other and reading our various books on earth, which were very lacking. America, it's called, is not the whole of earth as it seemed, but a piece of it.  Several continents, each with their own laws and cultures is enough to give a dozen ponies a dozen lifetimes worth of study! Amber and Lilli were progressing best through a few phrases we thought were more common like ‘where's the bathroom’ and ‘it's nice to meet you friend’. We were able to find a basic Equestrian to English translator in the internet, but they didn't have our letters, just or words in their letters.  That was good, though, because it was more practice. By suppertime we were done practicing and rehearsing so we started talking in Equestrian until we got a phone call from Written Letter telling us that our helpers had gotten us an English tutor. She’s going to stop by tomorrow morning and her name is Melody, which means Harmonic Tones in Equestrian so we like her already.  We didn't spend any more time talking in English because our heads were tired and the foals got to skip their homework because they'd studied so well through the day. We took showers and went to bed kind of early, but we were excited to meet Melody. Sex with Amber was relaxing and great as usual, two minutes this time.  Not too shabby!