Spin in a washtub? Spit on a shoe?

If I'm gonna be stuck here for another year - I may as well just take this last year...

I've chosen to learn to speak Arabic as well as French... My thoughts are this will pretty much make it so I can get some sort of job with the Government or something...

Not exactly sure what to do with myself - as if that's new...
I'd rather learn Japanese... But what can you do?
Spin in a washtub? Spit on a shoe?

Okay now I'm just getting weird...