where do I come from...

[evulik]

I am from Slovakia, seems I will be also the only one... was born here and still here :)
this is good site, I learned a lot from you guys... and I just love literature... will see what will come out of this, my first thread over here...

"...life is not made of tasks... but tastes...":p

[den]

Hi evulik! Glad to have you here.

[verybaddmom]

welcome, evulik. enjoy the site.
btw, i am Canadian!

[Lolita]

England.

[Koa]

Hey, another European! We're rare (except British)...and cool! :D

I'm from Italy btw...there were threads like this before, you might want to check them out :)
Oh and we have a Czech if this can be of interest to you, I know it's not exactly the same but you're neighbours ;)

[simon]

canadianish
am american expatriote (assuming I was one at some point)

[ravana]

Azerbaijan.
I belong no to Europe, neigher to Asia. I'm Caucasian.

[evulik]

thanks guys for welcoming messages, I am already enjoying it over here very much... very interesting group is created out here...

[Green Utopia]

Wait for me!!
I am Saudi from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
hope to see your nice ideas

YOURS,
GREEN UTOPIA



Seeking for knowledge is an endless process

[evulik]

hi Utopia,

I guess we've met while ago on your thread :) I am not sure if my ideas will be nice, but I will try to present them in the most possible meaningful way ....

:)

[Sancho]

A big warm hearted welcome to you Evulik. You guys all live in such exotic places. There are so many places left to visit in a life time.

I'm from Georgia. Not originally, but it's were I live now. (It's the Georgia that's next to Alabama not the one that's next to Russia.)

[emily655321]

Where are you from originally, Sancho?

Oh! I haven't said hi yet. Hi Evulik! :D (I like your name, btw.)

[ravana]

Reading Georgia I was almost happy to meet here someone from good neighbourhood. I forgot that there's another Georgia in USA. Why have they same pronounce? In my language it sounds as Gurjustan not Georgia.

I recollected another sameness: Turkey (country), turkey (bird)

[emily655321]

Hehe that's true. I think Georgia, USA was named after King George of England. I could be wrong.

[Sancho]

Correct–a-mundo Em. The first western city here was Savanna (rhymes with Ravana) settled by James Oglethorpe. Happily, Oglethorpe was an obedient subject of the King George II and we wound up with “Georgia” instead of “Oglethorpia.” Sheesh!

Sorry to disappoint you, Ravana. The Georgia in your neighborhood has a much longer history than my Georgia. Incidentally, when you first showed up on this forum I enjoyed following your links about Baku/Azerbaijan.

Oooh, Em. I just love talking about me. I’ve been a bit of a nomad actually. I’ve bounced all over the place. Even though I wasn’t born there either I claim South Carolina as my home state. (the Carolinas, I’m pretty sure, were named after George II’s Wife Caroline) I was about the size of a football when we moved there and that’s were I learned to talk; hence the hick accent. I was born in Madison, Wisconsin at plus or minus a couple of weeks of when John Steinbeck drove through there on his “Travels with Charlie.” (How’s that for making an otherwise self-serving post somehow literary?)

[amuse]

yay! i love it. :D

[emily655321]

LOL The image of a tiny football-sized Sancho with a huge beat-up cap just flashed into my mind there. Oh no, now I'm going to imagine Tiny Sancho talking in your voice whenever I read your posts. :D

[Shea]

Oh! I love Savannah! What a beautiful town!

[evulik]

for me all places that you come from are exotic :) this is probably with every one of us...
Slovakia is not that exotic, but funny... sometimes... mainly the means of transport in the capital are funny to me, not mentioning poor stranger... as an example, I was travelling two weeks ago in capital and I had to get to place X ... since I was rarther lost (as everybody in capital hihi) I had to ask advice and I was told: "get into bus 216, wait 5 minutes, when you cross the railway and on the left will be park, step out. Cross the stree, turn right, then left, step on the bus 91, wait 5 minutes, then step out. Then take 94 wait 3 minutes and step out" and I was there staring at people, willing to go walking :confused:

[ravana]

Sancho, I was not disappointed at all. I heard about new town- Savanna- will search for it. And thanks for your interest to my Azerbaijan.

Where's Koa? I know that there's city- Ravenna in North italy.

[Sancho]

Savannah is still pretty town even though it’s starting to sprawl a bit now. There’s a good non-fiction book out that is set in Savannah. It’s written in the style that Truman Capote made famous with his book, “In Cold Blood.” The book reads like a novel but is “immaculately factual.” It’s John Berendt’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” They made a movie based on the book but the movie was lousy.

[amuse]

oh no!!! my aunt gave me that on cd and the cover pic Freaked Me Out so i never listened to it. whoops. will look for it.

[emily655321]

LOL Isn't that a good reason TO listen to it? I can't count how many times I've gotten something because it looks spooky, only to find out the cover design is way more interesting than the story.

[IWilKikU]

The title is WAYYYYY more spooky/interesting than the actual book.

[Koa]

Originally posted by ravana
Sancho, I was not disappointed at all. I heard about new town- Savanna- will search for it. And thanks for your interest to my Azerbaijan.

Where's Koa? I know that there's city- Ravenna in North italy.

Eeheh yeah there's such city...How do you know it? It's not big nor important... :D

I'm from Verona, north-eastern Italy. Yes, Romeo & Juliet... :D

[ravana]

my friend moved to Italy and located in Ravenna. He wrote me joking that there's a city was named after you.
I must say he's dissapointed about southern cities of Italy, especially about Rome. He found them a little dirty than northern ones. What about Verona? But if it's north-eastern, that's OK! Right?

[Koa]

oh well...the north-south matter is a very delicate one... not only because of dirt. I've never been to any big city in the south, I've never been even to Rome, but I think all Italian cities are dirty. Tourists here in Verona (we have a lot of them!) find it very dirty, and when I go abroad I realise why...

I think Italians are very 'dirty' outside and clean inside. I mean, we care a lot about our houses, mums are obsessed about rooms being clean and tidy... But in the streets, noone cares and there's every kind of trash, there are writings on the wall everywhere, even on importatn buildings and statues.... While in England I noticed the opposite: the streets are clean, but the houses are quite messy, there's not the same obsession as here...

[ravana]

You are right about being clean inside. The same situation's in my country. Take it easy. The main thing is that he found Italians very kind, and the girls more atracctive.

[Koa]

Bah I don't like most Italian boys' attitude. Yeah the girls...infact I'm only succesful with foreigners.

[crisaor]

Care to put that theory into practice, Koa? :D ;)

[Koa]

:D :( NO. I'm shocked about long-distance relationships :(

[WX6[ck]]

Hi evulik, by now you've probably posted more then me but, hi anyway. All of you seem very settled in, whereas me, I have no idea where the hell I'm from, or what to say when someone asks me. Here, I was born in Hong Kong, raised there, moved to Denmark, half danish, half french, half vietnamese, half hungarian, half british, half chinese for all I know, And I can only speak english. Someone help me.

[amuse]

would you like to donate your life to fiction, WX6[ck]? it sounds like reading it would be a lot easier than going through it. it also sounds like you may one day have a lot more to give and receive than many people. now your translation comment makes sense.

[emily655321]

That's a lot of halves. :p You're three people, CK!
j/k

BTW, what does your name mean?

[WX6[ck]]

Nothing really, one day I opened up notepad and wentouefhak wx6klajdfh;lbasv and then I saw WX6. I thought it was cool. Wheras ck came from a clan, cerberus knights.

[Koa]

Originally posted by WX6[ck]
Hi evulik, by now you've probably posted more then me but, hi anyway. All of you seem very settled in, whereas me, I have no idea where the hell I'm from, or what to say when someone asks me. Here, I was born in Hong Kong, raised there, moved to Denmark, half danish, half french, half vietnamese, half hungarian, half british, half chinese for all I know, And I can only speak english. Someone help me.

I see your disorientation (assuming this is a word...) but I find that extremely interesting! I often wonder how it might feel to have mixed origins, especially when you received culture from them, for example blingual people...
So where do you live now? How can you speak only English if you lived in Denmark? :confused:

[WX6[ck]]

Yea, I can understand Danish, just can't speak it or write it. I still live in denmark. It's so different from living in Asia.

[Koa]

I bet it is...
So how do you comunicate in danemark...well i guess they all speak english with not many problems there, but are you a student? englis school? Just curious...

[WX6[ck]]

Yea, I go to an International school.

[Koa]

I have a question for ravana: can you recommend me some sites about Azerbaijan? I got curious... about how life is there and how the place looks like etc... I'm going to have a look on google, but I thought I'd ask too :)

[Koa]

... For the moment I instructed myself on www.azerb.com, which was very interesting!!!!

[ajoe]

']I have no idea where the hell I'm from, or what to say when someone asks me. Here, I was born in Hong Kong, raised there, moved to Denmark, half danish, half french, half vietnamese, half hungarian, half british, half chinese for all I know, And I can only speak english. Someone help me.

I find that really cool! Can I ask how that happened? And when did you move from Hong Kong to Denmark?

[verybaddmom]

i have a friend who was born in greece, raised in italy and then moved to canada to get his education. his parents were indian and greek and so the poor kid struggles constantly with a missing sense of permanent cultural identity. i dont understand it because i was born and raised in canada, same province and all, but i thought you might get it ck....

[evulik]

Hi WX6(ck).... do I seem to be quite settled? :) good, I am proud of this statement, in fact I am not that settled... but it is a good thing that it looks this way :)
your origin is quite fascinating, it must be good thing to belong to many nations, anyway we all are children of one nation, as far as I can go. to me, well my family is half german and half slovak, leaving most of my life in Slovakia and tracking my relatives from Canada to Netherland, USA, Czech Republic and other countries. Too many to mention. Too many to meet all my relatives :) I am in Slovakia and I am quite happy about it. I lived for one year in Netherland, needed to settle my mind a bit... it helped a lot and I grew up. not a lot but at least a little :)
so what do you do in Denmark? Studies? Perhaps some work also? curious... :)

[ravana]

hi, Koa! Thanks for your interest. I didn't know about www.azerb.com. I searched and found some links for you.

http://www.baku-vision.com
http://www.azer.com/
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/azerbaijan.htm
http://www.culture.az
http://www.un-az.org/doc/living2002.doc
http://www.un-az.org/couinf.htm
http://www.explore-azerbaijan.com/index.html

These links are about independent Northern Azebaijan, where I live. Main Azerbaijan is Southern Azerbaijan, but it's not independent, still is ruled by Iran.

I hope you'll share your imression with me later.

[ravana]

By the way, Koa, my congratulations! according to Jarno Trulli

[WX6[ck]]

Um... Just because I'm from no reconisable origin everyone wants to know more about me? I personally find that quite offensive...

[emily655321]

CK, I think it has more to do with where you've lived and the cultures you've known. Don't be offended by people taking interest in your experiences. That's part of what's so fun about this forum: connecting with people from other backgrounds and learning about each other.

[evulik]

Hi,
well, it is not offensive. I am interested in every person that I do not know so far... :) no ofense in that, is there? why would you think that it is ofensive? don't you like when people are interested in your person?

[verybaddmom]

i dont think that people here are trying to be offensive in any way, ck. i think that perhaps people here are responding to the information that you shared in an honest and impulsive way. i am certain though, that there is no malice in the above posts. people who are from one place are curious about people who are from many, and i think perhaps people who are from many are curious about people who are not. no different than trying to understand people who are different from you. its human nature, and i think more than anything people here are reaching out to you in the name of friendship. maybe take a deep breath and just take it for what it is. we are all on the same team here.

[faith]

Im from Finland. Thats a countrey in northern Europe. Know it? U know its the countrey Nokia comes from. (Yes really, Nokia isnt Japanese ;) (some people use to think so).

[ravana]

FAITH! Glad to see you here! Welcome!
Finland is homeland of lakes and santa-claus!
Finnish people are very genuine.

[evulik]

welcome faith. I had a perfect friend Eija from Finland. Pity we are no longer in touch :( so I know Finland. I suppose that this is the country everybody knows well... and Nokia is my fellow friend :) still with me 24/7 :)

did you meet our fellow banana? everybody loves it :)

:banana:

[poehee99]

Im from Holland or The netherlands as you may know it. Evulik read that you,ve lived here for a while. What city was that and how did you like it here?

[emily655321]

Hi Faith! :wave: Welcome.
And yes, the banana welcomes you as well. :D :banana:

[amuse]

i've been foruming here toooo long; i read poehee99's "Evulik read that you,ve lived here for a while." and thought that you were refering to the forum at first. tee hee. :D

[Koa]

Lol @ amu

I still can't make myself convinced that Nokia isn't Japanese... :eek:

[evulik]

Hi Poehee99 :)

I lived in NL for one year. I visitied Zeeland... I love that part of NL, but that was just visit. I lived in Almere, that is basically place near Amsterdam. So of course I loved Amsterdam.. who does not :)
I also went through Rotterdam and the bottom part... but those were too short times to mention.
the most beautiful place? do not know, the first moment I entered NL I was in love with it, completely... I love the people, the language (I visited ROC Flevoland for dutch) all.... the most can't help it Amsterdam and the view from boat :)

where do you live?

[ravana]

Hey Sancho! Yesterday I saw "The Legend of Bagger Vance". It was quite late but I watched it . As I heard the name of Savannah I cried: Oh, that's Sancho's Savannah.
How well does that city reflect real Savannah? have you read that novel of Steven Pressfield?

[poehee99]

hi evulik,

I live in haarlem and I go to uni in Amsterdam and of course I love it in amsterdam, but as you said: Who doesn't?

[evulik]

Hi poehee,

I had a boyfriend from Haarlem... :blush: isn't this world small? :)

I envy so much that you are there and I am not. I spent there one year and I loved it.
Though I was never in Haarlem, but Almere place was fine. Quiet, full of foreigners and near river/canal (who knows what was it hihi) but I used to sit near it on the grass and read books... wonderful... miss it.... :(