Diyala
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Great you?

Cheers!

lol. I remember one day in 8th grade the lights in our school flickered then quickly turned off and the fire alarm went off. My friends and I joked that zombies would start appearing from the lockers. It was during winter on a pretty cold day. I didn't have a jacket on me so I was out there with a t-shirt; it wasn't too bad as the cold doesn't bother me too much.

I'm doing pretty well. My girlfriend is being a little troublesome. And for some mysterious reason, ants are collecting at one spot on my carpet. It's as if they were a scouting party. I have vacuumed them up twice.

More like I'm being humble about my knowledge in English. You don't bother and am glad that I am able to help you.

You give me too much credit. English is one of my least favorite classes. My friend is very well learned in English; he is thinking about teaching English as his career.

No problem.

While does mean a period or interval of time; it could be a long time or a short time. For example if I were to go on vacation for a month, I would tell my friends that I would be gone for a while. That is when while would mean for a long interval of time. Example 2: if my mom told me to vacuum and I say in a while because I was currently occupied, that time while would mean a short amount of time since I would do the task in the same day. While depends on contextual clues as to how short or long the period of time will be. In the example you used, "I will be away for a while". That could either be a long or short period of time. It could be long because your schedule is very packed that you won't have time to socialize for a long time. At the same time it could be that you are just getting something to eat for lunch therefore it wouldn't be that long before you return. To expand on its use I'll take your example and add to it to give you a contextual clue: "I will be away for a while because I am going to eat lunch". It doesn't take a person a whole day to eat lunch, probably around a hour, so I would have some clue as to how long you will be in hiatus.

I'm doing pretty well. I got Final Fantasy XIII's OST yesterday; I decided to get it because I've been listening to other FF OST's while playing Final Fantasy XII. I have most OSTs for the FF series; all I have left to get is for: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, & Final Fantasy XI. In case you don't know what "OST" stands for it means: Original Soundtrack; which can be for a tv show, a movie, or a videogame.

Work has been pretty good as I've been getting more hours.

Don't be too hard on yourself; I am not trying to learn a second language or partially know a second language.

Your sentences are complete, you just may not know the best word to be used sometimes in parts of your sentence. Another example: when you said, "that it must be replaced with other one...", "with other one" is not proper. What would be the correct way to say what you meant is "with another one". Also with "or my sentences are incomplete...", that should be "or are my sentences incomplete".

As for your last sentence I'm unsure what you are exactly trying to say. What I am most unclear about is when you say, " and how it would be nice if followed it right". I think I got it down as to what you are trying to convey to me: that it would be nice if I followed my everyday conversation [while typing I presume, since that is when I told you I mess up often]? As for the "if followed it right" part of your last sentence, I believe you are trying to see if what you said is right and if that was your intention then they way to end that sentence would be: "if followed, right?".

The "occasional hiccup" is that you mess up every once in a while. Example: when you said to me, "and about being late to respond I already did get your speech very well", "did get" you should be replaced with "got" and while "speech" does work the word "said" would have fit more nicely.

I mess up often as well; my mind gets ahead of my fingers while typing and I forget to put a word into my sentence to make it complete.

Well I had explained that somehow I had missed a VM you sent me which was why I took a considerable amount of time to respond.

How have you been?

It is polite. I don't see why you are sorry about asking, tis nothing wrong with that.

Sorry about that. Somehow I missed your VM that you sent me 10-2-10. Which, English-wise, was pretty good. You do have a good understanding of how English works though you may have the occasional hiccup (which happens to me as well)

Not really. I guess I may be a little zonked out of Dragonlance. I do have other books that I'm really looking forward to reading so that could be part of the problem.

I am very good thank you Himi, thank you for asking and how have you been?