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Post by Cow-winkle on Mar 30, 2004 18:44:56 GMT -5
Rossland, Canada.
It's a small town, but it used to be, in my opinion , VERY populated (40 bars then, one or two restaurants with a bar in them today). This was about 100 years ago when gold was discovered here. It's basically on a mountain, and although it looks normal with all the houses, if everything was removed, it would just be a mountain. Some good things here are Red Mountain, a skiing facility which gets most of our tourism in the winter. The high school, Rossland Secondary, is the 32nd highest rated school in BC, and the #1 school in the province outside of Vancouver. Oh, and all the outside scenes of the Disney movie "Miracle" were filmed here... I'll be quiet now.
Oh, and the closest thing to a celebrity that ever lived here is the inventor of the walkie-talkie.
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Post by Luna on Mar 30, 2004 18:48:08 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 Ni hao ma. I lived in Singapore for seven years of my life. So it was basically my entire childhood from age four to age eleven. I went to S.A.S (Singapore American School.) And I often went to "The American Club," which had the best milkshakes and pizza ever. I now live in Florida but I was born in Pennsylvania, Pittsburg. I prefer living in Singapore and I fell over in surprise when they showed the Merlion on Cowboy Bebop and in Animal Crossing, Singapore is clean (gum was illegal, not sure if it still is.) and it was one big city. I lived on Eng Kong Road.
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Post by Luna on Mar 30, 2004 18:53:16 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. Hey Stone, maybe the next time I go to around either Philadelphia (my dad's relatives live there, my mom's live in Pittsburg) I'll come and visit you. Been to Gettysburg before, small, quiet, but cool. Lots of fields with old wooden fences around too from what I remember.
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Post by ncwidt5895 on Mar 30, 2004 18:58:23 GMT -5
I live in a town with 10-12,000 people outside of Los Angeles, California. (Ha...I live 20 minutes away from the Neopets office=P)
I live really close to Malibu (which is not like it is in the movies), and Hollywood and Beverly Hills aren't so great -_-
Movie stars do not prance around every street, although I see them sometimes (RARELY, though). There are some celebrities around here, though...
Umm... it's pretty hot here. Yesterday it reached in the upper-90's. Barely ever cold xD
It hasn't snowed for like... 15 years or something.
And that's my boring life ^_^
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Post by potatorewkiki on Mar 30, 2004 19:21:27 GMT -5
I hail from the Chicago area, Illinois. The suburbs of Chicago... I'd never live in the city nor country because of here. I live in a pretty average little town, it's 'quiet and nice' in my friend Aislin's words. Um, my house is only like 40 miles northwest of Chicago, and we go there A LOT. Chicago is nice, 'specially Lake Shore Drive and just around Lake Michigan in general. I can't exactly compare it to other big cities because I haven't been to places like NYC and etc. in a while, but I'll tell what I know. The weather at this time (the beginning of spring) is pretty average, too, in the 50's (F) most of the time, not a lot of wind. Yet it never gets too warm. Very cold in the winter!!! VERY! You'll never survive here if you've never seen/rarely see snow. It's constantly falling here in the winter, and in the summer I just feel lucky we don't have any at all. Chicago has a somewhat interesting history. There's the Chicago fire... I've seen a few buildings that survived that terrible accident, and it's amazing how much damage it did. The city hasn't changed much at all lately... Besides the security at O'Hare airport. After 9/11, many people thought that since it was another big U.S. city, Chicago might be a following target. It was amazing how high the security has been, even in January of this year it's still horrible. It takes more than an hour most of the time to get through that security, but much less if you are simply a lucky ducky. I live in a little town in McHenry County, which is pretty large. *shrugs* Okay, that's all I can collect from the top of my head. I'm honestly brain-dead today. Spring break is getting to me.
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Post by rainbowface94 on Mar 30, 2004 19:21:33 GMT -5
I hail from the Chicago area, Illinois. The suburbs of Chicago... Yay someone else from Illinois! I'm from Streamwood, Illinois. It's pretty boring here in the suburbs but it isn't that far from Chicago which is pretty cool I guess. It's very boring since nothing ever happens and nobody knows this place exists.
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Post by potatorewkiki on Mar 30, 2004 19:26:43 GMT -5
Yay someone else from Illinois! I'm from Streamwood, Illinois. It's pretty boring here in the suburbs but it isn't that far from Chicago which is pretty cool I guess. It's very boring since nothing ever happens and nobody knows this place exists. I totally agree with you. You see, that's why I just talked about the city. There's nothing exciting at all around here besides the fact that there's a polar bear sleeping in my yard...
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Post by teghan62 on Mar 30, 2004 20:26:21 GMT -5
Alberta, Canada.
Yes, we have cows. :P
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Post by Eggz on Mar 30, 2004 20:32:42 GMT -5
i live in west vancouver, canada!! ^^ its really windy right now. not that windy, but windy. i'm from hong kong though, i moved here when i was only 2 months old i go back every once in a while though. i can't speak much cantonese either. so don't ask me for help.
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Post by roselladestiny on Mar 30, 2004 20:37:17 GMT -5
I hail from Heilongjiang, China, which is way up north by the Russian border (my parents are both fluent Russian-speakers), but now I live in Texas. I still speak Mandarin quite fluently, however, Writing it is another story...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 20:40:02 GMT -5
I hail from Heilongjiang, China, which is way up north by the Russian border (my parents are both fluent Russian-speakers), but now I live in Texas. I still speak Mandarin quite fluently, however, Writing it is another story... I want to learn Chinese. My stepmom is from China, and I really want to know what she is saying when she mumbles to herself!! I know its nothing bad, but I'm curious!! Plus, I want to do something with Foreign Languages for a living.
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Post by resurrectedwarrior on Mar 30, 2004 20:49:07 GMT -5
Wow, I'm already in love with this thread! It's so cool to see where everybody's from, and I have about 90 bazillion things I want to reply to on this (but I won't).
Oh - to those of you who live around or have been to historical sites - how do you resist picking artifacts up off the ground? I know you're not supposed to on those sites, but I find it difficult to resist, especially since I know how to recognise them. One archaeologist friend of mine says that whenever she goes to historical sites that aren't under excavation, she doesn't even look at the ground!
So, how do you 'resist'?
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Post by MarillTachiquin on Mar 30, 2004 21:01:19 GMT -5
I hail from Chihuahua, Chihuahua México. it's like four hours from El Paso, Tx. and no, we don't have wild Chihuahua dogs running around ;D Chihuahua means "Dry and Sandy land" (yup, this is a desert, specially in the north). Chihuahua it's pretty famous in Mexican history, because almost all Mexican Revolution literally started here. Pancho Villa for example is from Chihuahua. Also we have a lot of industry over here. specially some factories named Maquilas, that come from other countries. we also have our ethnic population, named Tarahumaras, that live in Chihuahua's mountains, called Sierra Tarahumara. Those mountains are very, very beautiful, specially on winter. it has many waterfalls and they look spectacular, specially when they're frozen ;D I'm very proud of living here. it's very clean, everybody it's so polite (you sneezle, and everybody says "bless you", everybody opens the door for you, they greet you, etc..), but they know little about being polite at driving. well, at least i put some example ;D and we have our own tequila, named Sotol. i have never drink it (and i don't drink alcohol), but everybody says that it's good. for all of you that do not know how Chihuahua is, here is a map: Texas is just over Chihuahua. Chihuahua city, where i live, it's in the middle. Chihuahua it's the biggest state of Mexico ;D oh, and i can speak Spanish (que onda??!!), English (Hiya! : , German (guten tag!), Japanese(hashinamaste!), a little bit Chinese (Mandarin)("steamy dungotoshishiao" edit: i have corrected this 3 times, and is still changing to that steamy dung thing, sorry (it supposed to be "nice to meet you" ), Korean (Aniong Haseyo), French (Bonjour) and very very little of Hindi (Namaste) and Russian (Drasvichen) (I forgot the only words i knew in Turkish, i only remember "thank you" (Tishkure)).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2004 21:06:28 GMT -5
Canadian, eh!!! I love my Canadian-ness. ^_^
Toronto, Canada.
Not much to say about it, since we haven't studied it in history yet (and, judging by how little we've covered in history so far, we won't) ... but it has about 3 million people, and I think it's about 10% of Canada's population .... ummmmmmm ... "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was filmed here! Muchmusic is in Toronto, and so is 102.1 The Edge (radio) ^_^ And ... umm, the Maple Leafs (Hockey) are from here, so Go leafs go!
(I live on hockey, 102.1 The Edge, Muchmusic, and ....... hockey.)
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Post by Jitterbug on Mar 30, 2004 22:35:20 GMT -5
Alberta, Canada. Yes, we have cows. We have cows too. I'm from Manitoba. Population=who cares? Land of the Mighty Bison! Actually we have the largest french-speaking community outside of Quebec. And when we're not underwater we're usually under 8 feet of snow!
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