Getting to know people here...

[Zee.]

sure does take awhile :alien:

[Saladin]

Yeah.:lol:

So what is a kiwi doing in Aussie-land? Studies? Work? Or an obsessive love for vegemite-sandwiches?

[Zee.]

Moved there when i was 13 actually, really love it there.

And i can get my supply of vegemite from New Zealand - so no, not the vegemite..
though it is yummy...


hmm
have you travelled much?

[Dori]

I for one haven't travelled much; I've only gone as far south as Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as far north as the Saint Lawrence River (the border between New York, where I live, and Canada), as far east as New York City, and as far west as Buffalo, New York (perhaps?). Okay, I've been to Canada before, but that was ages ago.

(I know the question wasn't directed at me, but I figured I'd answer it anyway in the hope of getting to know one another. :D )

[Joreads]

Well I may as well join in. I have travelled a little I have been to Africa, Japan and New Zealand.

Is there anything better than Vegie on toast with butter - I think not.

[Zee.]

No, no, please, do join in.

I've travelled to most of asia, apart from japan, fiji, raratonga, spain, italy - quite a few places there, france, America and Morocco

New York, Dori! ahh yes, i'm going there in june. And when i finish up school, i'm taking 3 months off and going to stay with a family friend in Brooklyn :)

[Joreads]

No, no, please, do join in.

I've travelled to most of asia, apart from japan, fiji, raratonga, spain, italy - quite a few places there, france, America and Morocco

Wow that is great. Which place did you love the most? and which one surprised you the most?


I love to travel but I love to get home to I am weird that way.

[Zee.]

I loved.. New York and Paris the most.

Paris surprised me the most. I had this image of cobblestoned streets and little alleyways - but when I got there i was surprised at how open, wide and quite flat it all was. Paris was absolutely amazing.

Morocco was a massive, massive culture shock. I road tripped to three places while I was there.

[Dori]

My class is going to New York City for our senior trip, and the Art Club, of which I am the vice president, might be going on a separate trip there this spring as well. If I go on both, it will be my second and third time going which is great! I live in rural, upstate New York (about a 6hour drive west from NYC), by the way, so being in NYC is drastically different than what I'm used to. I just love the energy of that city (and all the museums!).

Wow, limajean, you've travelled quite a lot...I'm jealous. :D My travels have been quite limited, unfortunately, and unless I somehow miraculously make a lot of money in the future, I'm afraid they'll stay limited. Though, I might, just maybe, take a trip down to Uruguay. Believe it or not, my grandpa bought a house down there, meaning I have a place to stay! :D

And Joreads, I also like returning home, especially after long absences. :)

[Zee.]

Yeah i have travelled a lot - got some insane stories along the way.

When i was in morocco my family and I bought these little lizards, the ones that change colour you know? i've forgotten their name but they were so cute - drove them out near the desert, well, away from the city, and released them, they were pretty cool

[Dori]

Yeah i have travelled a lot - got some insane stories along the way.

When i was in morocco my family and I bought these little lizards, the ones that change colour you know? i've forgotten their name but they were so cute - drove them out near the desert, well, away from the city, and released them, they were pretty cool

Chameleons?

[Zee.]

THEM! yes, :D

[librarius_qui]

... Limajean? Lima Jean? Jean Lima? ... Moved to Australia? Where from?

I'm a Carioca (that is, born in Rio de Janeiro), but my father's from Bahia (another state), and my mother from Minas Gerais (yet another state). They met in Rio, got married a year later, I was born four after the marriage.

When I was 5, they moved to Salvador (Bahia). Then we came back to Rio, when I was 6. When I was 9, we moved to Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais). We were back when I was about to turn 11. We moved to Portugal, when I was 13. 15, we were back in Rio. I was 22, they moved to Belo Horizonte again. that time, I stayed, because I could manage it, already.

Except to Portugal (Oporto), all the other cities are in Brasil
I'll give the translation of the cities' and states' names of this beautiful but tough Portuguese America:

Rio de Janeiro, "January river"
Minas Gerais, "general (Royal) mines"
Belo Horizonte, "beautiful horizon"
Bahia, "bay", in an ancient spelling; in modern Portuguese, it's baía
Salvador, "saviour"
Oporto, original name is Porto, which means "harbour", or "haven"

I travelled a bit, from 5 to 15. No more!, thanks. At least, not to live abroad! I love my hometown and birthplace.


Libri~
:crash:

[Zee.]

Limajean because i was thinking of Limabeans when I was creating a username.
My blog explains it all,

Brasil hey?
I've only known one other person from there

[librarius_qui]

Brasil hey?
I've only known one other person from there

Rare thing! There's Brasilian folkes all around! Like a plague in the world! :lol:

:bawling:

:D


Libri~
:crash:

[Zee.]

Plague huh?
haha

[Niamh]

Well I may as well join in. I have travelled a little I have been to Africa, Japan and New Zealand.

Is there anything better than Vegie on toast with butter - I think not.

Yes there is! Its Vegie on toast with butter and thin slices of chedder cheese!! :D Love vegemite. Brought a tube of it back from Oz with me in october.

well if no one minds i'll join in too!
I've been to Australia (sydney, Cairns, Airlie Beach), New Zealand ( Auckland, Waipu and Urititi Beach), Singapore, Italy (Rome, Florance, Milan, Brindisi), France (Chartres, Frejus- St Rapael, St. Tropez, Cannes), Monaco, Belgium (brussells, Leuven), UK (lots of Places!) Grand Caneria....think thats it...

[Delta40]

I figured it was because of limabean. What are you studying?

[sprinks]

Lived in Australia my whole life. Have been to Adelaide, Sydney and Canberra, and Victoria when I was very very little, and other random little islands off the coast here. And I agree with Niamh :D. Oh :lol: the past 2 or so days, I've practically lived on Vegemite on toast!

[*Classic*Charm*]

You all really enjoy vegemite??!!?? A good friend of mine spent a year in Australia and New Zealand and brought some back because she said it was so popular. I didn't believe her. It tastes like salty sludge!!!

My travelling has been limited...

I live in Canada and I've only been to a few of our own provinces (Born in Ontario, travelled to Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia), I've been all over the U.S., and I've been all over England. That's the extent of it. I'm hoping to go all over Europe somewhere in the midst of my schooling or shortly after.

[Zee.]

I finish up school in october - hoping to study law.



But this year i will be studying

International studies - deals with politics and global issues
History - American history and Russian history
Literature - D.H Lawrence, Henry James, Shakespeare's Hamlet
English - Robert Frost poetry, Dickens
Legal studies


English will be a piece of cake.


Vegemite is delicious!

best thing is vegemite in a sandwhich with chips

[MattG]

Okay, since we're friends now I'll play :)

Born in the snowbelt in upstate NY, have stepped foot in all US states except Alaska, have been to Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, The Caymans, the Bahamas & soon Puerto Rico (March). Have lived in NY, California & Texas and love Texas the most. I'm a classically trained artist who no longer paints except for the rare & occasional burst of inspiration. Fell in love and got married very early, still married 21 years later. Have 2 kids, oldest is nearly your age, youngest is 12. I've been dead once, almost dead another time, and I once thought I was going to die. I've seen a lot, felt a lot, heard a lot. I've been destitute, desperate, scared out of my mind and I've also been comfortable, well loved and satisfied. (I wrote this with no paragraphs to weed out the skimmers). I'm not easily surprised, nor am I easily frightened, and I can see a liar from 112 miles away. I've started large fires, both literally and metaphorically and have discovered from that process that things can go crazy in almost no time at all. I've learned that I can be happy in any place at all and that I can be unhappy there as well. The things that fascinate me tend to be the things that most people care little for and as a result of that I have very few friends. I love to study and read about history, pop culture, architecture, industrial design, programming (which I do for a living), eastern and western philosophy and on and on but I know that it's all irrelevant to life which only happens in the 'right now'. I have been wronged much, much more than I have wronged but I still love people as a whole even if my particular set of filters on this universe preclude me from understanding much of what people do. I am but a drop of water in the swelling tide of humanity.

[Niamh]

Vegemite is delicious!

best thing is vegemite in a sandwhich with chips

That... that actually sounds interesting...
What type of chips??

[Joreads]

Niamh plain chips out of a pack works well but I have seen it done with hot chips:sick:. My sister likes scrambled eggs on toast with Vegie:sick: People are weird when it comes to their vegie let me tell you.

There is only one way to eat it and that is on toast with butter:)

Charm I think you are putting on way to much vegie you only need a small amount.

[Zee.]

I've seen people try the hot chips but nothing beats
SALT AND VINEGAR CHIPS.

Texas, Matt?

As you know - i've been there, felt like i was on a different planet.

I think we need a new question - considering we're pretty much filled in on where we've all set foot.

[MattG]

I think we need a new question - considering we're pretty much filled in on where we've all set foot.

You could always answer mine (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40185), if you're so inclined. :)

[Zee.]

1). My room
2). If you're asking what my eye falls on when i look out the window, it'd be a tree which my frequent visitors like to play on ( possums )

[Saladin]

hmm
have you travelled much?

Not actually. I am not exactly a globetrotter. I have lived in Norway since i were 4 years old. I am originally from Africa. So i have been to Kenya and Somalia. Other nations i have been to is The States (USA - The Midwest), Denmark, Sweden, UK and Iceland.

[Silas Thorne]

1). My room
2). If you're asking what my eye falls on when i look out the window, it'd be a tree which my frequent visitors like to play on ( possums )

I've always thought it interesting that some of the traditional aboriginal cloaks in the Melbourne museum are made from NZ possum skin, because possums are protected animals in Australia but not in NZ. In NZ possums are regarded as pests and can be beaten to death by schoolchildren under the direction of their teachers.

[Virgil]

Really, going to be in Brooklyn. That will be cool. Perhaps we can meet for lunch (with my wife of course ;)) and it will be my treat. I grew up in Brooklyn and it's still really the home in my heart. Excuse me for being a home enthusiaist, but New York is the best. :)

[Zee.]

I've always thought it interesting that some of the traditional aboriginal cloaks in the Melbourne museum are made from NZ possum skin, because possums are protected animals in Australia but not in NZ. In NZ possums are regarded as pests and can be beaten to death by schoolchildren under the direction of their teachers.

i know, im from there myself,

[Zee.]

Really, going to be in Brooklyn. That will be cool. Perhaps we can meet for lunch (with my wife of course ;)) and it will be my treat. I grew up in Brooklyn and it's still really the home in my heart. Excuse me for being a home enthusiaist, but New York is the best. :)

i'd like that.

[Silas Thorne]

Yes,I know, I just thought it interesting because I was in Melbourne for about a week and I saw more possums than I've even seen in my whole life, prancing about over all the trees and grass in the evenings. And I thought that the aboriginal groups must have had certain cultural rights to collect the skins, but that they had to get them from NZ...not that I dislike the animal, mind you.

Are you from the North or the South of the country?

[Zee.]

From the north, born in the coromandel mountains. Literally.
No hospital.

[Zee.]

From the north, born in the coromandel mountains. Literally.
No hospital.

[Zee.]

Damnit

[Dori]

:lol: limajean you crack me up sometimes. :D

Anyway, I figured I'd ask, do you have a myspace or a facebook or anything? Or anyone for that matter?

[Silas Thorne]

Daughter of the mountains, eh? :)

I guess you'll always think of NZ as home, even though you go elsewhere. I probably will, even though I wasn't born here, but in Scotland.

You are lucky to have travelled so much! I envy you. :)

[Zee.]

I am lucky, yes


Yes - always home :)

Dori, no i don't! all my friends + family pressure me to get one but i just, never have - plan to this year though, when i get around to it, you'll be the first one i let know.

And i'm glad I amuse you so, making people laugh is one of my greatest pleasures in life :D hehe

[Dori]

I am lucky, yes


Yes - always home :)

Dori, no i don't! all my friends + family pressure me to get one but i just, never have - plan to this year though, when i get around to it, you'll be the first one i let know.

And i'm glad I amuse you so, making people laugh is one of my greatest pleasures in life :D hehe

Haha, and now you have someone you scarcely know pressuring you to get one! :D

Making people laugh is also a great pleasure of mine, but more often than not I burst out laughing before others have a chance to. It's a good thing laughter is contagious! :D Seriously, once my best friend told me a story of when he was on a swing and he flew off backwards---I couldn't contain myself. I laughed so hard that tears were running down my face and my stomach ached horribly.

Oh, and another time the same best friend had forgotten his username to a college website so he made a new one. The new one he made apparently already existed. I burst out laughing when I saw that. It wasn't even funny...I just laughed until tears came to my eyes and my stomach hurt. I tried telling this to my bro, but at my first words I burst out laughing more, and he started laughing just as hard as I was! My friend was dumbfounded...:lol:

[Zee.]

I absolutely LOVE to laugh. I usually laugh so hard my stomach feels like it's had ninjas jumping all over it by the following day.

[Silas Thorne]

They're pretty sneaky, these ninjas. Better watch out for them. :)

[djy78usa]

Well, if the ninja was worth it's salt, you wouldn't even know it had been there in the first place!

[sprinks]

:lol: most of my last blog entry on my other blog that isn't my litnet one, was about ninjas. And camels. And ninja camels. Then that led to ninja koalas. There was actually a reason for it though :p. Also then I changed the lyrics of some of the songs I was listening to, changing some of the words to "ninja" :p. I laugh a lot too. And I tend to keep laughing waaaay after the joke is over. And I laugh loudly which makes it worse, as then it is very noticable that I am laughing at a joke or something from ages ago :lol:

[Pensive]

Speaking of laughter, I am also one of those who end up making fool out of themselves due to this habit of theirs. It's so bad with me that on seeing people laughing at something (even though I don't know what they are laughing about) I end up laughing badly. And even more so when people are laughing at something really silly/something serious I burst into laughter on their simplicity. Later at my own simplicity too. :D

[Tournesol]

Speaking of laughter, I am also one of those who end up making fool out of themselves due to this habit of theirs. It's so bad with me that on seeing people laughing at something (even though I don't know what they are laughing about) I end up laughing badly. And even more so when people are laughing at something really silly/something serious I burst into laughter on their simplicity. Later at my own simplicity too. :D

Pensive, you and I are the same! I laugh so easily when I see others laughing.

Then, I have another problem: I smile ALOT when I'm nervous!

So, in the past when I've gone for job interviews, I would smile a lot, and they would think that i'm a really friendly person, and all the while I'm freaking out on the inside!!! Isn't that psychotic?!

[Pensive]

Pensive, you and I are the same! I laugh so easily when I see others laughing.

Then, I have another problem: I smile ALOT when I'm nervous!

So, in the past when I've gone for job interviews, I would smile a lot, and they would think that i'm a really friendly person, and all the while I'm freaking out on the inside!!! Isn't that psychotic?!

Heh that reminds me of an interview with my school Principal. All the time I was passing her smiles (it was just natural! I didn't mean to do that) and her first comment about me was 'what a smiling face!'. Sometimes I hope people don't get mistaken by my smile that I am making fun of them. The only place where I can get over my laughter is around some certain sort of brats (guys around whom I feel really uncomfortable). In fact I am so stern there that hardly anybody who knows me enough can guess it's me.

[BlueSkyGB]

Oh my goodness....reminds me
over the weekend, I had to attend a funeral for a friend...
and started to giggle and had to get up and go outside....
felt so bad
till the father came out and said that that was what everybody needed to hear
and he thought that Linda would have liked the laughter...

I tend to get nervous giggles....:blush:

[Zee.]

I laugh at the worst times too..

[Zee.]

Next question everybody - i'm all out

[*Classic*Charm*]

Any pets, limajean?

(sorry, my immediate thought always goes to the critters:p)

[Zee.]

Yep, two cats, one really fat one that just hangs around the fridge all day called Tara, a skinny burmese called Prince and a blue pitbull called Chopper.

[Dori]

I adopted two kittens over last summer (they were sisters). Other than that, we have another cat, a dog, lots and lots of chickens, and two geese. We have lots of critters. :D

[*Classic*Charm*]

Cute! There's something charming about fat cats, isn't there? I have two (Boots and Snowy). And kind of a third cat who's not fat at all (Ollie). I also have a fish (Rutherford) and two horses (Tobasco and Shadow).

[*Classic*Charm*]

I adopted two kittens over last summer (they were sisters). Other than that, we have another cat, a dog, lots and lots of chickens, and two geese. We have lots of critters. :D

Geese are awesome!

The barn where my horses are has two ducks (Franny and Sally). They're awesome. They're land dwelling, so they just waddle around the barn all day in and out of the horses' stalls and eat bugs. They'll eat out of your hand now, too..

[Zee.]

I absolutely love horses.

I used to look after one for this lady, shared it you know? He was called Batman. I want to get a horse now though - i like the name Yankee.

[Zee.]

Once i put out salmon for a stray, the next day she came back with 4 kittens - they were so, so skinny, so i fed them up and then one day they just left.
I named the mother Billie, and the kittens Foxtrot Uniform Charlie and Kilo..
like the song, you know?

and then someone kindly pointed out the first letter of each of their names...

well, you do the math. :\

[Dori]

Once i put out salmon for a stray, the next day she came back with 4 kittens - they were so, so skinny, so i fed them up and then one day they just left.
I named the mother Billie, and the kittens Foxtrot Uniform Charlie and Kilo..
like the song, you know?

and then someone kindly pointed out the first letter of each of their names...

well, you do the math. :\

:lol: What an odd coincidence!

[*Classic*Charm*]

Once i put out salmon for a stray, the next day she came back with 4 kittens - they were so, so skinny, so i fed them up and then one day they just left.
I named the mother Billie, and the kittens Foxtrot Uniform Charlie and Kilo..
like the song, you know?

and then someone kindly pointed out the first letter of each of their names...

well, you do the math. :\

Haha awesome! I haven't heard that song in AGES.

[Zee.]

Catchy, hey? :)

[*Classic*Charm*]

I absolutely love horses.

I used to look after one for this lady, shared it you know? He was called Batman. I want to get a horse now though - i like the name Yankee.

I live for them. :blush:

I've been riding for about 10 years now, though I had to stop once I started university, so now I only ride over Christmas break and the summer. I go back though to get my fix. My mental health goes down the tubes when I don't see my horses.

Yankee's a cute name. I didn't name either of my two, actually. I wish Shadow had a more creative name..

[*Classic*Charm*]

Catchy, hey? :)

Definitely!

[Zee.]

Shadowfax
Shadowboxer

[*Classic*Charm*]

I can't really rename him now...he is 7 or something close to that. And he already has a second name (horses have a formal name that goes on their passport that they go by when they show).

[Niamh]

I dont have any pets.

[sprinks]

I have 3 cats and a dog. Basil, Mummacat, and Kimber, and Toffee. I refer to Basil as Basil-cat and Toffee as Toffee-dog.

[Zee.]

Next question...

Once again I can't think of one :(