Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Sorry i got waylayed, this new computer wants to wrestle with me some times.
Anyway, im into music, mainly modern underground type stuff although i do enjoy a lot of different types as long as it is original and done well.
I also love the great outdoors, reading [anything interesting] spirituality and life in general.

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I AM ANEW IN THIS SITE AND IAM VERY GLAD TO BEING WITH MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS .IAM FROM OMAN AND I STUDY IN SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY.I DONT KNOW IF YOU HEARD ABOUT IT OR NOT.I LIKE DRAWING AND LISTENING MUSIC.MY MAJOR IS ENGLISH IN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION.SOOOOOOOOORY IAM LITTLE BIT NOT VERY GOOD IN ENGLISH BUT I LIKE THIS LANGUAGE IN ADITION TO MY LANGUAGE(ARABIC). :rage: ;)
AND THAT IS WHY I CHOOSE THIS MAJOR.
ALSO I WANT TO TELL FROM NOW FORGIVE ME IF I DID MISTAKE OR UPSET YOU.AND I WANT TO BE YOUR SISTER FOR EVER.THAAAAAAAANKS
SOOORY I AM VERY HUNGRY .I WANT TO EAT SOMETHING OR I WILL DIE :D :banana: :sick: ;)

hi to everyone, im new here and im very glad to be with you...:)
i study medicine in english language but my english is not good as it must be...
im from turkey and i like playing basketball and listening aggressive musics
im interested in literature for a long time and id like to talk about in literature much
see ya later

Welcome Noora, I don't think so that anything you said upset anyone.

Kysa, Welcome to the forum! Keep on posting!

hi its nice to be here, i like bikes and books, movies, music (i play classical guitar) hoping to meet some great people here. so hi.

Hi Folks,

I am a retired Navy helicopter pilot. I work as a self-employed woodworker now and I am an aspiring writer. Those two interests, fiction writing and building furniture, boats and structures out of wood, share more in common in terms of craftsmanship than you might think!

Good to be here and read so many energetic and thoughtful opinions from such great folks.

Ed

Welcome to all the wonderful newbies I've missed meeting while travelling. I hope you all enjoy it here. :wave: :wave: :wave:

Book Carpenter, Welcome to the forum! I also like making crafts but the one's I make are quite simple.

Bookiebiker, Welcome to the forum! Keep on posting!

Hello, I am a secondary English teacher. I have taught high school English for four years and, due to a move, am currently teaching 8th grade language arts. Not sure why they call it English for high school and language arts for middle school, but that’s the way they do it. My favorite author (for the past several years, anyway) is Dostoevsky, though I love Tolstoy as well. It’s hard to find people in life who want to discuss literature–at least that has been my experience, so I did a google search to find literary forums and found this. I also have a deep interest in writing–more from an objective point of view; I don’t write very much (but I'm working on that). Hope to enter into some great discussions here. Todd

Welcome Todd. You sound very interesting. I think you'll enjoy it here. I've had trouble discussing literature with others. Once out of college, there are very few people in my sphere of humanity that I can discuss literary topics with. Lit Net has been a blessing for me.

Actually your post reminded me of an incident way back when I was much younger. I happen to go out on a date with this really pretty girl and I made the mistake of telling her I was reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. And I started talking about what a great work and got carried away with the subject. She was an intelligent girl, but not literary. I must have bored her to tears because she never went out with me again. Let this be a lesson for all literary minded people who go out on dates. :lol: :lol:

Thanks, Virgil. I read a couple of your initial posts on this thread. You have quite a background. I love to see the engineering and medical type of people also passionate about literature. I think it makes for a more complete person. I think e.e. cummings was a doctor. I wish I had more mathematical aptitude, but alas, I am awfully lopsided. Just love literature. Sorry to hear of your dating mishap. I guess most of us have had a similar experience. Hope you found that right one later on. Todd

Welcome Todhill :wave: . Glad you've come to join in the literature discussion. Blacksmithing, wow. I've never actually seen a blacksmith at work. I only know that poem about the blacksmith "under the spreading chesnut tree" that everyone seems to learn in school. Sounds interesting.

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Actually your post reminded me of an incident way back when I was much younger. I happen to go out on a date with this really pretty girl and I made the mistake of telling her I was reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. And I started talking about what a great work and got carried away with the subject. She was an intelligent girl, but not literary. I must have bored her to tears because she never went out with me again. Let this be a lesson for all literary minded people who go out on dates.

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Virgil--Boy can I identify.:lol:

I don't think I've introduced myself formally, so here goes:

I'm a 9th grade homeschool student, but next year I'm going to Pre-IB. IB students take 100% "AP/Honors" courses, must take four years of foreign language, higher level science and higher level math, must take a certain number of fine arts (don't remember how many), and have to have some number of CAS hours. CAS is Creativity, something, Service I think. You can't do IB until you're in 11th grade, so I'll be Pre-IB, which is similar, but just Pre.

I love literature. I really do. I don't even know why. I'm also an obsessive novelist. For example, I took part in NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. That's where a bunch of wacky novelist write 50,000 word novels all in the month of November. It's really international. There are writers from Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and a couple from Africa (mostly South Africa).

What do I want to do when I'm grown? Well, I want to be a nurse/linguist/novelist/translator/interpretor/mother. There's a big plan about how I'm going about this, and yes, it will work. :D It starts with becoming a CNA in highschool (this one's optional but preferred). Then I'll go to LPN-RN school, meanwhile getting translator/interpretor certs, which aren't hard to get if you study foreign languages, which I'm doing right now. I'm specifically working on my ASL out of school, because I'd never go hungry with one of those translating certs. I don't really need to do anything but write to become a novelist. When I'm done with LPN-RN school, I'll work my way through school again in linguistics. Maybe I'll throw in an English minor that time around, cause it will be easier to double up. Somewhere in there, or afterwards, I'll get married. A tough plan, but completely plausible. I'll just have to stick to it.

The thing about those, is I'll cover all my interests, and all my bases. :D If I have an RN license as well as a ASL translator's cert, I'll never have to worry about some bread on the table. Not that life will be completely luxurious, but I'll probably not be unemployed for long amounts of time.

Rosie, you sound like a great person. Welcome to lit net. I know you already like it here, because you've posted a few times.

Well, thank-you for the welcome. I hope I can sound intelligent (being only fifteen and all). But I'm really trying to read more and more literature. I think I read stuff quite a bit below my level usually. I'm currently plugging away through "The Scarlet Letter." I'm supposed to read that for school in about May, but I've found that I never enjoy anything half as much if I'm told to read it, so I think I'll read it before it's spoiled, and then read it again. :)

hello i'm new here and I really like this forum. I'd like to know more about it and how it works.
thanks. :nod:

Miss, Welcome to the forum! Keep on posting!

Hi Rosie, Welcome to the forum. we are glad to have you in our community.

toddhil, You really sounds quite interesting. Welcome to the forum!

Virgil, Funny tale. A very similar thing happened to me. A month ago, my mother's fellows lecturers were talking about literature. I interrupted and I gave all the account of what I read and liked and stuff like this... And then the aunties looked at me as I was from anoher planet. When I mention Mill On The Floss. They give me a whole lecture that how "Reading adult books deteriorate children"

I did not get that whether I was bound to read Cinderella or Snow White? So it is the best thing to never talk about literature outside your English class or literature forum. :D

What I get whenever I talk about literature in my house is quite different. My house embraces it, but if I ever talk about something that my older sister (who's seventeen) hasn't read, she'll go: "You think you're sooooooo smart reading that don't you?" It's really obnoxious. Whenever I share a fun fact it's always, "You're trying to act like you're so smart aren't you?"

Or, another thing that will come from that same sister is this sort of thing:

I had just finished reading "Ivanhoe" and I was talking with my brothers about how Ulrica and Urfried are the same and why she changed her name and stuff. So my sister comes up and says, "Seriously, we've all read it you know."

Now since my sister has said that she hates Ivanhoe, and Ivanhoe is not a book she'd ever read, I'll say, "Really? You've read Ivanhoe?"

Then she'll say, "Yeah. You think that I don't read?"

Then it'll be next, "Who's Prior Aymer?" And she won't know. This happened with Scarlet Letter too. Yesterday I was talking with my mom about it and my sister says,
"You're not the only person who's read it you know. I've read it before too...who's Hester again?" Only the main character. Happened with "The Crucible" and "Tale of Two Cities" and "Three Musketeers" and others. All similar things happened.

Well, Rosie, I guess stuff like that tends to happen when you're young. Many people, unfortunately, don't take youth seriously. But...wisdom is ageless. And...it sounds like you know the difference between reading and "reading." Todd

Hmm. No offense to your sister (although I wouldn't mind offending her a smidgen, if it meant she learned something), but nobody likes a pseudointellectual.

hello ! i want to know you , because i need some friends from the west , i will be glad if you email me . thank you

hi , i will be glad if you email to me i will write later , bye

Hi Rosie--A warm welcome to the forums. :wave: Sounds like you're keeping yourself busy what with all those IB classes and career ambitions and everything. Just don't forget to give yourself that time to stop and smell the roses, and never let yourslf get so stressed that you get distracted from the fun of learning that led you to those courses to begin with (I only say this because your posts here reminded me of my own intellectually driven over-acheiving self at your age). That's funny about your sister. Siblings! :lol: Just try to be patient with her about it.

hello ! i want to know you , because i need some friends from the west , i will be glad if you email me . thank youhello ! i want to know you , because i need some friends from the west , i will be glad if you email me . thank you

Welcome to Murice too. :wave: You popped up while I was replying to Rosie and I just saw your posts. I'm sure you'll find many friends here.

Woah, I love the wavy guy...sorry that was random. He just has me entranced there.

I know what you mean Petrach. I try to not get caught up in the courses...but you know.

Welcome, murice...hmm Syria. The only Syrian thing I know is my hamster...who probably wasn't even born in Syria, but she's a Golden Syrian long-haired :) It'll be interesting to get to know you.

Hey Rosie!! Welcome to the forum!!!
IB is pretty tough,most people I know dropped that ish.I only take two IB classes;Music Theory,and English.It's pretty sweet around here.Cool folks.

Cool, Ryduce--you're in IB?

At the risk of sounding dumb or old or not in with it, what is "IB"?

An "elite" academic program, presumably possessing a comparatively rigourous and stringent curriculum and stressing the importance of thinking for oneself and development into well-rounded Renaissance folk. The "IB" stands for "International Baccalaureate."

I hated that crap man.I dropped out of it except for those two courses that I mentioned.I might take an IB science class next year,but I think the whole IB thing is a waste of time personally.All those kids have OCD and think they're better than everyone.I couldn't stand them.If I stayed in it I would have ended up beating the crap out one of those little elitist pricks.

Hmm. Say hi to the head of the elitist pricks, Ryduce. :wave:

I HATE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But you seem a decent fella,so I wont hold the IB thing against you.



Actually they weren't all that bad,but most of them were.

Well, thanks, Ryduce. I'm in Pre-IB, have a sister who is an IB diploma Junior, and a sister who is an IB diploma graduate. :lol:

And actually I have full-blown OCD...for real. Even to the point of disinfecting desks before sitting at them.

Hi everyone and a warm welcome to newbies!

Well, if it makes you feel any better, Ryduce, I'm a complete slob.

Dont see how that seperates the 2 Im a total slob and have OCD tendencies, well ok not at the nmoment as I finally got round to tidying up my room after about 3 months of saying I would and my present obseesion is keeping the carpet clear.
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btw hello rosie:wave:

Well, my name is Sydney Faulkner, I'm 17, and yes... I am related to William Faulkner. He was my dad's third cousin. Anyway, I love music (composing and listening), writing poety and song lyrics, learning new instruments, reading, studying Parapsychology, annoying my enemies to the best of my abilities, and independent film/documentary making. I live in the Bumpkin Part of Tennessee (like there's really any other part...), and I enjoy spending time with my friends.

Welcome Sydney. Wow a realtive of the great man. Any similar features? BTW, we will be reading one of his novels in the month of April, for the Book Forum. Hopefully it will be The Sound and the Fury. Any chance you might join us in reading along?

And Tennesee, btw, is a lovely state, vastly different at one end to the other. And besides, it has Nashville.

All these IBers, I did Chem and Bio IB in HS, It was neat, alot o' the students were arses.

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Well, if it makes you feel any better, Ryduce, I'm a complete slob.

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no kidding, Alot o IBers are slobs...me house is a complete disaster...could also be I'm just lazy. :D