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Where in the World Are You?
London, England at the moment (for work), then will be heading off to sunny Essex.
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Ingrid, why would I be offended? And don't feel silly. :o)
Ingrid wrote: "Are you in Colorado, France, British, Uk, Spain, Africa!?!?!?!?! Just where in the world are you? I think its pretty cool something as simple as the internet can bind a world of people, don't you?..."
I'm a Brit in Brittany, France, bilingual - English and French spoken fluently! Currently playing hookey from chapter 32 of HOD!
Darkangel wrote: "Ingrid, why would I be offended? And don't feel silly. :o)"No Ingrid, we know Americans just love our accent, it's the why we have problems with!
I love the French accent, French men could read me the telephone directory and send me weak at the knees!
Hey Im a spaniard, currently in Barcelona, stayed on Scotland for 13 years. Married to a scots (got my own souvenier, lol) Bilingual as well...and currently skiving (laying hookey, come on Sarah, ;))from chapter 18 on Heirloom
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:D that puts me in a better mood. but i still wish i hadn't watched a lot of Harry Potter marathons...:D
Afternoon Ladies! I'm in Southern Spain but originally from West London, England.I'd like to say I'm bi-lingual, but I think 1-and-a-but-lingual is probably more accurate.
I wish I was skiving, but I'm working. I'm currently on hold trying to talk to some Engineering company up north. Dull is not the word!
@DarkAngel - just realised you're an East Londoner, Simon's from Leytonstone :-)
ShazzyLouLou wrote: "Afternoon Ladies! I'm in Southern Spain but originally from West London, England.I'd like to say I'm bi-lingual, but I think 1-and-a-but-lingual is probably more accurate.
I wish I was skiving,..."
What are you trying to sell them?
Corporate finance!I work for a marketing company who work for lawyers, accountants, investment managers etc. We make appointments for partners to go to.
Sounds more boring than it is, but I've been calling Leeds all afternoon and I'm not feeling the love!
ShazzyLouLou wrote: "Corporate finance!I work for a marketing company who work for lawyers, accountants, investment managers etc. We make appointments for partners to go to.
Sounds more boring than it is, but I've ..."
What language are you using? Punjabi works best in Leeds I believe! Hold on a minute you mean to tell me you're trying to sell them money and they're not interested? Like I said try Punjabi
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Sarah R wrote: "ShazzyLouLou wrote: "Corporate finance!I work for a marketing company who work for lawyers, accountants, investment managers etc. We make appointments for partners to go to.
Sounds more boring ..."
SARAH!!!! LOL!!
@Shazzyloulou - I was born in Whipps Cross Hospital (Leytonstone) and then lived most of my live in Chingford. I quite like being an Eastender.
Pam wrote: "Hey all ... I'm from Alberta Canada ... originally from Saskatchewan (yes, try to pronounce that) Canada but moved one province west (closer to the mountains and river that I love to play in)."Cool, that must be awesome, living near mountains are there wolves?
ShazzyLouLou wrote: "Sarah R wrote: "ShazzyLouLou wrote: "Corporate finance!I work for a marketing company who work for lawyers, accountants, investment managers etc. We make appointments for partners to go to.
Sou..." It's the truth, check the electoral records, my son lived there for a while!
Yes we all have dreams, they cost nothing to make it's the realisation of the dream that costs the dollars!Mine is a swimming pool for our new house, covered so we can use it year round. I have RA and my joints hurt so much at times it makes excercise painful, necessary but painful - a vicious circle swimming doesn't put the strain on your joints and I love it!
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Pam wrote: "Ingrid wrote: "@Pam wow i didn't know that. but i just assumed because i moved to colorado springs near denver, colorado 5 years ago and found the mountainous area chilly because i was never born t..."Me too being English and coming from the Midlands we used to get cold,wet winters and warm wet summers! The emphasis there being wet! Here in Brittany we get the rain, lots of it but like now we have temperatures in the high 30's February March and April can be hot too, bizarrely enough and we very rarely get snow.
Last year the whole of France got loads even the south and we got a few flakes! There were people snowed in less than 50 k away and here nothing!
I'm in New Brunswick, Canada. I'm an American expat from frigid Wisconsin. It's warmer out here in the winter but much cooler in the summer. Americans wanting to escape the heat should consider a few weeks in Atlantic Canada for vacation.
John wrote: "I'm in New Brunswick, Canada. I'm an American expat from frigid Wisconsin. It's warmer out here in the winter but much cooler in the summer. Americans wanting to escape the heat should consider a f..."Sounds perfect for me, I moaned when it rained and then when last week it got hot that was no good either! Too hot!
Right now at 2pm AST it's 75F and sunny. I'm a three hour drive due east of Bangor Maine.
Hi everyone - I'm also from Alberta - I live in the same city as Pam. Unlike Pam though, I was born and raised in the mountains west of here, spent some years in Central Alberta and two years in the Yukon before coming back to my roots. The worst part of winters here can be the wind - but winds can also be the best part because we get Chinooks - warm winds coming over the mountains. They melt the snow and give us a reprieve from winter.
Pam wrote: "John wrote: "Right now at 2pm AST it's 75F and sunny. I'm a three hour drive due east of Bangor Maine."So is it really as beautiful in the fall as everyone tells me it is?"
I suppose, but of course it depends. Some years it's drab and others it's brilliant. It seems to peak on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend.
Right now half my birches are almost bare from the hot, dry summer, but the maples look vibrant. I suspect it'll be a red-orange fall with less yellow.
15min from home: http://www.flickr.com/photos/power_un...
Red-orange is something we don't get a lot of here - we have a lot more yellow. I remember seeing a red tree for the first time - I was probably in my 20s by then.
Hi, I'm from the Philippines. It's a South East Asian nation, a neighbor of Indonesia and Malaysia. My country has 163 living languages. These languages share 40% common vocabulary. Though we have different languages, 'Filipino' is the term that is widely considered politically correct in describing the language of my country.
It's interesting to see how discussions in geography bring about discussions in language. I suppose it's because these elements, along with culture, are all interdependent.
What else can I say about my space in this world? Well, our weather is basically hot (summer) and cold/wet (rainy season). And Christmas here is a bittersweet affair. One is immensely happy and yet terribly broke. (Yes, I am from a third world country).
It's interesting to see how discussions in geography bring about discussions in language. I suppose it's because these elements, along with culture, are all interdependent.
What else can I say about my space in this world? Well, our weather is basically hot (summer) and cold/wet (rainy season). And Christmas here is a bittersweet affair. One is immensely happy and yet terribly broke. (Yes, I am from a third world country).
may wrote: "Hi, I'm from the Philippines. It's a South East Asian nation, a neighbor of Indonesia and Malaysia. My country has 163 living languages. These languages share 40% common vocabulary. Though we have ..."Hi May,
I'm in France, and Christmas here is short, the French only have Christmas Day as a holiday and if it falls on a weekend they lose out on it altogether! Our weather here in Brittany is like England but a little warmer in summer but just as wet!
Sarah wrote: "may wrote: "Hi, I'm from the Philippines. It's a South East Asian nation, a neighbor of Indonesia and Malaysia. My country has 163 living languages. These languages share 40% common vocabulary. Tho..."
Hey Sarah! We have the same treatment of Christmas. Although it feels as if the holidays stretch out because we also celebrate new year's day and, around February or March, Chinese new year.
I've read about Brittany when Graham Greene wrote about it in his novel "Travels with my aunt". I imagine that Brittany would be a good place to visit and have it on my bucket list!
Hey Sarah! We have the same treatment of Christmas. Although it feels as if the holidays stretch out because we also celebrate new year's day and, around February or March, Chinese new year.
I've read about Brittany when Graham Greene wrote about it in his novel "Travels with my aunt". I imagine that Brittany would be a good place to visit and have it on my bucket list!
may wrote: "Sarah wrote: "may wrote: "Hi, I'm from the Philippines. It's a South East Asian nation, a neighbor of Indonesia and Malaysia. My country has 163 living languages. These languages share 40% common v..."I would love to visit the Phillipines too but I would need to choose a time when it is not too hot, which is why living in France is perfect. Though this last week has been in the high 30's and I have been inside the house where it is cooler!
I haven't read Travels with my Aunt I'm afraid, it is very beautiful here the countryside is lush and green, due to the copious amounts of rain we get year round. Brittany has its own language, Breton, I speak a little but I can understand and translate into French and English. Each village has its own variation of the language and then there's the patois which is abbreviated French! Learning French was my ambition and I mastered that, when my daughter starts college next September she will be adding Spanish to her list of languages and I will be joining her in order to help her with homework!
We celebrate New Years Eve through to the following day which is exhausting, fine when you're young but as you get older your body can't take the punishment!
I'm currently living in Southern California, near but not in Los Angeles. I come by way of Sweden, Montreal, and Brazil. We moved a lot when I was a kid because my dad was a photographer and my mother was a journalist. I want to move back to Europe someday but for now, I'm happy with California.
I've also lived in Mexico (lower Baja) and, for a very short while, Senegal.
Simone wrote: "I've also lived in Mexico (lower Baja) and, for a very short while, Senegal."Hi Simone
I'm English, but now I live in France and have done for the last 9 years, I've never been to California or Mexico,Montreal, Sweden or Brazil. Lol the furthest I have ventured is to Maderia! Boring aren't I!
Nice, my dad always wanted to go to Canada he hoped to go on the train through the Rockies, he had all the brochures. Sadly he died before he could fulfill his dream.
I'm sorry. D: My dad died in January, so I know how you feel, I'm supposing. Maybe some day you can fulfil his dream for him.
Yay! :D
I've only ever been in the east side, probably because I live in Ontario. :D
I've only ever been in the east side, probably because I live in Ontario. :D
Yeah, that would makes sense. Have you ever been to the east side before?
Pam wrote: "@ Frege - Yay! another Canadian@ Sarah - That is sad. He would have loved the Rockies. I live about an hour from them ... I see them every day when I go to work (well the horizon anyway) :). Ma..."
I would love to see the Rockies, but my partner has his heart set on Kenya first!
:D That sounds awesome. Is it set in stone yet?
Pam wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Pam wrote: "@ Frege - Yay! another Canadian@ Sarah - That is sad. He would have loved the Rockies. I live about an hour from them ... I see them every day when I go to work (well t..."
Yes, me too but I can do that in a road trip, albeit a very long roadtrip but sightseeing would be done en route!
Frege wrote: ":D That sounds awesome. Is it set in stone yet?"No, not yet first I have to sell loads of books check out my web page authorsarahrweldon.weebly.com. The Thin Blue Line now available on amazon.com!
Sarah wrote: "Simone wrote: "I've also lived in Mexico (lower Baja) and, for a very short while, Senegal."Hi Simone
I'm English, but now I live in France and have done for the last 9 years, I've never been to..."
I haven't been anywhere in a long time. Well, Washington, DC because my cowriter lives there, but other than that I haven't been on a trip since my dad died two years ago. He was the big adventurer between my two parents and moved us around a lot when we were kids. Sometimes I miss it, but then I remember that I'll have no one to talk to about my travels when I return so I don't go. I do hope to move to the South of France for a while at some point, however.
@Frege@Sarah
Sonds like a lot of us are dealing with the death of fathers. I feel for you ladies. I was a total daddy's girl.
Same here: My dad was like your's too, really adventurous. I inherited that from him. He was more or less like my best friend too. I was closer with him than my mom. But my mom's fairly adventurous too, as a family, we'd go on hikes up waterfalls and such. But my dad and I like a bit more... dangerous stuff, I suppose.
@FregeMy mom was more adventurous before having 5 children. She's a great lady, and I talk about her a lot on my blog because she's still a big part of my life. But, yes, there was just something kind of magical about my dad. I actually wrote a post about this just on Sunday because I was missing my dad a lot. My dad was my favorite person in the world and I still compare people to him. He worked a lot when we moved to the States which was really hard on me but he always made time for us kids when he got home. If you want to see what I mean about them being adventurous, I'll link the post on blog below. My dad was the person who always understood me best. My mom and I couldn't be more different. When I got old enough to travel alone, I would come home and tell him all about it. We'd talk for hours and hours about what I'd seen, done, learned. He was a really great man.
http://simonebirger.wordpress.com/201...
Well, I'm 14 now, and when my dad died, I was 13, so it was only about seven months ago. I wrote a poem thinking of him in a recent contest (in this group!), but I don't really write a lot.
I thought my dad was my best friend, despite how busy and how much older he was than I. I guess it also comes that I was named after his mother (my real name: Frege is my online name), but we never really talked about that. He taught me a lot, and I was the son he never had but always wanted. xD My sister and my mom would make fun of me because of it, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I thought my dad was my best friend, despite how busy and how much older he was than I. I guess it also comes that I was named after his mother (my real name: Frege is my online name), but we never really talked about that. He taught me a lot, and I was the son he never had but always wanted. xD My sister and my mom would make fun of me because of it, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I read your blogpost. It was beautiful, and I could clearly imagine you and your sister running around. I wish my parents would do that too, but our weekends were always busy: we have Piano early in the morning, and right after that I had fencing. That was a long time ago. Now my mom's back is bad from all the stress from trying to heal my dad and raising me and my seventeen year old sister and running a household by herself.
@PamI'm of the belief that I will always miss my dad. My life has been pretty different since his death. At one point, shortly after his death, I told my sister that I would never get married because my dad couldn't be there. I've changed my mind on this, but I still think that it won't be the same. My dad was just a really magnetic person, I suppose. It sounds like you had a wonderful dad, too.
@Frege
My sisters, too, are closer to my mom than they were my dad. My brother also has always been really close to my mom. She's a very sweet, nurturing kind of woman. I never really felt the need to be nurtured, however, and don't always take well to being taken care of. My dad understood that. When I was upset he always made me talk about it and then construct a logical argument for why I should be upset and why I shouldn't be upset. It was the best way for me to really process things. He said that it was how he saw the world and his problems, too.
I am in Maryland. Bowie Maryland. Near the seas. You?