Nora shrugged, "I'm sure some of them have traveled, and maybe speak it fluently, or decent..." She didn't doubt that. Also, adults have hobbies, like learning about other cultures, their languages. One, at least has had to have an experience about it. "We should ask, yeah..."

And just as she was drinking a sip of her drink, she heard him say about the importance of physical exercise. She couldn't help but cough and try not to spit the butterbeer. "I know, yeah. But you know me well, too. It'll take a bulldozer to get me out of bed." Certainly, that bulldozer could be a call from him, an incentive.

"Okay. Here's the deal...I..." She shivered at the thought of what she was about to say, "I get up...at four a.m., five tops...and join you for physical exercise, three times a week. Don't ask for more, I do plenty of physical work at dad's greenhouses, carrying plants, sitting on squats...You, come and we talk about universities...and during school days, I'm sure we'll need each other's push and pull about what's going to happen next..." Because, waiting a year for university was possible, right?