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Post by raeoflite on Mar 30, 2004 9:27:15 GMT -5
Hello, ni hao, vanakam, selamat pagi (or maybe not - i think it means welcome...oops), ohayo gozaimasu, heihei, bonjour, aloha, guten tag, etc... hey. haha ok back to the point...saw that many of us are of different nationalities and i think i'm one of the rather unique ones...haven't found out if anyone is from my country but anyway thought it'll be nice to share about it basically i hail from singapore and i'm chinese. singapore is a multi-racial society with four main races: chinese, malay, indians and eurasians. chinese are the maj tho. anyway we are a peaceful and harmonious society with a rather stressful education system (but it's good...lol), a strong govt, considered 100% urban city and it's so small it's a red dot below the malaysian peninsula in southeast asia...hence no capital either. but we're strong in terms of economic and our airport changi airport is one of the best in the world. our markets and stuff like that are also ranked rather high oh yes and cleanliness too. we are the "lion city", a direct translation from our original name singapura which was modified to become singapore later on. hope that gave you a brief intro abt my country. i'm very proud to be a singaporean you could always visit www.sg a rather comprehensive site abt s'pore. yep and i speak english, chinese, teochew (a chinese dialect) and tried to start learning malay, japanese and french. (rather unsuccessfully) haha... ok then, bye! zai jian. sayonara. au revoir/audieu. hasta luego. i can't think of anymore...lolz
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Post by Torey on Mar 30, 2004 9:42:08 GMT -5
I hail from England. Um...what can I say about England? Well it's a country on an island called Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, whatever you want to call it, in the west of Europe but I don't know why I told you that cos you probably all know already We have unpredictable weather. It can be cold one day, hot the next, raining one second, sunny the next. England mainly consists of farmland and countryside and the capital of our country is London which is the largest city in England. The second largest city is Birmingham and it's in the midlands. There's more to my country obviously but that's all I can think of right now. I can't believe how little I know about it
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Post by stoneman3x on Mar 30, 2004 9:53:40 GMT -5
I hail from Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
I live in little speck of small town/farm country called Gettysburg. It's a tiny place with a big history. It's famous for being the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. More Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg than in all of the other wars (World War I, World War II, Vietnam) COMBINED. Therefore Gettysburg is a quiet sleepy town most of the year, but during the summer (especially the first few weeks of July) it becomes a zoo-like tourist trap. Mainly because thousands of people pour into this wee space for the yearly re-enactment of the battle. It's really cool because they all dress the part and have real cannons that go off and stuff-- but the tourists clog up everything and can be annoying. But other than that, it's cool to live in a historic place-- especially when it's quiet most of the time.
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Post by Stal on Mar 30, 2004 10:15:51 GMT -5
Missouri, USA. Right along the border of Missouri and Illinois, on the west banks of the Mississppi River (3rd Longest river river in the world, I do believe) there's a city called St. Louis. I don't live there. I live outside of it in the St. Charles area. St. Peters more specific, but still St. Charles area. ANYHOW. Can't say much about St. Charles but part of it's history is this is the city Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers, began their journey to chart out the unexplored territory of the Louisianna Purchase. You'll find many that contest our claim, saying Lewis and Clark set out from them, but it's a historical fact that St. Charles was the last city they set foot in before their wilderness exploration. So all-in-all, this is where it began. Anything else? Well, not too far away the famous pioneer Daniel Boone lived. Supposedly, and according to many people, he's buried out there too. And the place that he's "officially" buried at (outside of Missouri, not sure where) is just a facade (except those people really think he's out there and have no clue some Missouri-ans stole his remains or something).
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Post by Shadyy on Mar 30, 2004 14:49:57 GMT -5
I hail, from an -apparently- immaginary land called Belgium. Really tiny thing, has a coast, above france...? We got yummy pastrey, tarts, chocolate and whatever(all very healthy food : Of course we have fries, yummy. Uhhhhh, well we have a rather hard school-system (so it is said), But lucky me we don't have to get super grades to get into college... Most of the year we suffer from dirrrrrty weather: rain, fog, rain... But today was a beautiful day. ooh, as for me personally I live in Ghent, beautiful city, way better than Brussels or Antwerp . (We have a medieval Castle ;D) But I don't think I'd want to live anywhere else...one does get used to a city(country)... Officially there are three languages in Belgium: Dutch, French and German. I speak dutch, french, english and some amount of iltalian ;D ehhhhh....I'm slightly getting off topic here ;D
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Post by crescendo on Mar 30, 2004 15:01:59 GMT -5
I hail from icky sticky. Southern California. It's nmot htat bad of a location...2 hrs from mountain's beach and a magical place acalled Glendale. The air quality is horrible though, and my asthma gets all...ick
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Post by crescendo on Mar 30, 2004 15:02:36 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and I speak English and bad-Spanish
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Post by Cyanna on Mar 30, 2004 15:12:03 GMT -5
I currently live and go to school in New Jersey, a.k.a "The armpit of the U.S.A." We got crazy high car insurence, the greatest population density in the nation, so many deer that we don't know what to do with them and an attitude like NYC. But all of my family lives around here so I'm happy.
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Post by resurrectedwarrior on Mar 30, 2004 15:48:22 GMT -5
I hail from Eastern North Carolina in the good ol' US of A. I really don't consider myself from any one town, since I've never lived anywhere more than four years.
Stal . . . Stone . . . I envy you. Right now I don't live anywhere historic, but I used to. It's cool to live in places that have a history behind them.
I used to live right around Bath, NC, which is 'famous' for being the town nearest the spot it is rumoured Black Beard the pirate dumbed his treasure. There's several museums dedicated to Black Beard and pirates in that area . . . and people have come from all over to search for the treasure. No luck, though. Nobody's ever found anything (to my knowledge). I lived there when I was really little, so I don't remember it too well.
I also used to live in Beautfort, NC, which is very close to a string of islands where Black Beard (yup, him again) dumbed his sailors. For a number of years, the inhabitants of the islands were only able to access each other by boat, so each island developped its own dialect. (Modern day descendants can tell which island people are from merely by their accents!) If you go to this area, you could very easily happen upon a dictionary of local words used by the descednants of those abandoned pirates.
North Carolina is a very 'Scottish' state. TONS of Scots immigrated here, and a whole bunch live in the Sandhills region. Some of the Scots keep up old fueds between family clans (though this usually consists of little more than friendly banter). The Sandhills area also has a bunch of old historians who enjoy telling [in excrutiating detail] the tail of the 'Fiery Dawn', a civil war battle that took place on what is now Fort Bragg. I think its official name is 'The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads'.
Some older Scottish descendants are very good genealogists, too. I've found books 3 inches thick dedicated to just one family's genealogy.
As for where I'm living now . . . well . . . the most famous thing it's known for is NASCAR races. That means SUPER congestion when the racers come to town! But soon, the raceway will be closing, and I'll be moving. So I'm happy. (I'm not a NASCAR fan.)
I'm kinda hoping the next town we move to is small, because I love small towns. They're quiet and everybody really does know everybody else. My first remembered years were in a town whose buisiness section consisted of a stop sign and a corner store, and the people got indoor plumbing the year before we moved there. Some of the best times I've ever had were when we were living in a town with a population of 600 and had one stop-light. I miss it :o)#nosmileys
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Post by Buddy on Mar 30, 2004 16:26:48 GMT -5
West Virginia, USA.
I live up near the border to Maryland. I suppose my area is kinda historic. Its famous as a Civil War area (in fact, my grandparent's farmhouse was used as a hospital for injured soldiers!).
As for West Virginia itself, I guess you could call it the state that wasn't supposed to be. It broke away from a nearby state (Virginia) during the Civil War over issues such as slavery. However, this was technically unconstitutional. Even-so, President Lincoln allowed it to happen, as he needed more allies in the war. After the war was over, I don't know, I guess nobody really bothered to unite the two states again, so it exists to this day!
We're a pretty poor state. West Virginia used to be world-famous for it's coal, but since those days, most of the coal has been dug up and the companies which had been doing the digging left, leaving the state with few jobs and no money.
Now, wasn't that a great story!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 17:55:31 GMT -5
I hail from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Minneapolis is a HUGE city, with a population in the hundred thousands. Minneapolis is also considered to be a big city, made up of several smaller suburbs. So technically, I'm from a suburb in Minneapolis called Brooklyn Park.
It's most famous for the Mall of America and Camp Snoopy, a huge mall and the second largest indoor amusement park in North America.
Celebrities from there: Prince, Josh Hartnett, Rachel Leigh Cook (Josie and the kittycats.)
Now I live in Rochester, MN. Don't even get me started on that. It's a MUCH smaller city, and since I'm used to living in a big one, it drives me nuts.
EDIT: The filters changed a word..weird..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 18:10:56 GMT -5
I hail from Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Hear, hear. I hail from Pennsylvania as well. It is a commonwealth settled by german farmers back in the early 1700s. It has a very rich history. I live in a lovely town in on the foot hills of the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania full of pick-up trucks and tractors. It's known as Pleasant Valley. It used to have a population of far less than 5,000 and had miles of cornfields. Now we have a population of over 30,000 because people from the nearest neighboring states built a bunch of executive homes (quasi-mansions) 3 feet from eachother and now a lot of parts are just hideous. Mainly because there's all these nice houses with absolutely no landscaping so they're just sitting there like model homes. It's yucky. There's lots and lots of trees which makes for beautiful seasons and lots of potholes and lots of deer which makes for difficult driving.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 18:13:14 GMT -5
I hail from England. Um...what can I say about England? Well it's a country on an island called Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, whatever you want to call it, in the west of Europe but I don't know why I told you that cos you probably all know already. Hey!! You forgot, I'm going to be there in the summer! Maryland, USA, home of the crabs, which I HATE!
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Post by Kiddo on Mar 30, 2004 18:15:47 GMT -5
I come from Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut, and most recently Ohio. Take your pick of those - it all depends on which accent is strongest at the moment.
I have no roots outside of wherever I land up and even then I could care less about those. Bowling Green is my current home, a place of constant wind sweeping across campus and crowded dorms. But it'll be gone in about five years, probably less, and it's on to whatever other place deigns to pretend to be my home.
And no, my dad is not in the military. We've just had really bad luck.
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Post by aerisangel01 on Mar 30, 2004 18:42:11 GMT -5
I'm from the city of Chicoutimi, in the province of Quebec(Canada). ^^ If you want to know what it's like, take a big city, but remove every really big and tall building(ok, I forgot how those things are called! X( It's like the old wall trade center(sorry, these are the only examples I remember)), and add a LOT of vegetation, a lot of space, and you get where I live! =P
Pretty big and populated city, but with space and lots of plants ^_^ I live in heaven =P
Everybody here talk French and are white, it is EXTREMELY rare to see anyone of another races, black or asian are total RARITY!
It's nice here =P
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