Naamiee

Like Didge said, I blame it all on processed foods. Especially those soup powders and sauces, seasonings…actually, everything I eat!

I have to learn how to make my own tasty sauces and condiments.

I want to do the Brazil swap after I graduate uni, which isn’t until at least 3 years later. People all seem to be going to the UK or Australia/NZ so hopefully this one doesn’t get cancelled before I graduate.

I’m going!

I told someone they have really flat feet (which is my way of complimenting somebody…when inebriated) and he actually thought I had said FAT feet. So embarrassing.

So I completed A1.1 at the Goethe Institute, but I plan to do more.

The reasons are pretty random:

1. I read “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho and read the bio on the back of the book saying he was inspired by it. Cool. I didn’t realize he was Brazilian, but that’s another story. The story is that I really want to learn Portuguese and go to Brazil.
2. I met someone in German class saying that he’d walked it when he was younger and he recommended that I do it too. He had met his wife there, which I think is pretty cool also.
3. If, through Brazilian Portuguese and German, two goals that I have on here on 43T, inspires a third goal, so be it.
4. I really like walking. I mean REALLY. Let me put this theory up to the test.

The musical, not the film. I own the film already.

It’s ongoing so I don’t want it to take up a spot on more 43T anymore.

I have:
-joined Green Campus
-lobbied
-become vegetarian
-live carfree
-no excess waste of anything
-studying geography

I went to Easter Vigil and it was good. It’s still not Midnight Mass though!
I will hopefully be in England for next year’s Christmastime so hopefully I will go to a church there, such as St. Paul’s?

Okay so I am no longer going to Germany =(
I’m very sad.
But I did meet someone who went to Germany for two years just for fun so there’s hope for me yet.
This isn’t even about just the language anymore it’s about living there!

I felt like such a fake when I did it. I felt like I was desecrating the whole place. I bought some white flowers (signifying peace, I guess) then chose an unmarked cross. Some people walked by and it was weird. There was a lot of snow so I guess the flowers are already dead. Sacrifice. Rest in peace.

I’m going to Germany!
I’m going on exchange to Germany and while there I’m studying German!

I’ve always been fascinated with practically all cities on the North Sea.

Here’s a list according to Wikipedia:
Cities of the Wendish and Pommeranian Circle.

• Lübeck (chief city)
• Hamburg
• Lüneburg
• Rostock
• Stade
• Stettin (Szczecin)
• Stralsund
• Wismar
• Kiel

Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg Circle

• Brunswick (Braunschweig, chief city)
• Berlin
• Brandenburg
• Bremen
• Erfurt
• Frankfurt (Oder)
• Goslar
• Halle (Saale)
• Magdeburg

Poland, Prussia, Livonia, Sweden Circle

• Danzig (Gdansk, chief city)
• Breslau (Wroclaw)
• Dorpat (Tartu)
• Fellin (Viljandi)
• Elbing (Elblag)
• Königsberg (now Kaliningrad)
• Reval (Tallinn)
• Riga
• Stockholm
• Thorn (Torun)
• Visby
• Kraków (Cracow)

Rhine, Westphalia, the Netherlands Circle

• Duisburg
• Zwolle
• Haltern am See

I think I will do this whenever I go to visit Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. I’ve never been there before so it’ll be an experience.

Seasoned journalists say that you should be a journalist only if you have a need and feel a responsibility for your readership and the public in general. All very true. I love journalism though because of I am an information junkie. In journalism you get to know people you otherwise wouldn’t have known, get to know things before anyone else, and you get to see the world in a different way. Most journalism depicted in the media portray investigative journalism, which is all cool and important, but I also like reporting things people might not know about. Shed some light on the darkness. I always envied (okay that might be the wrong word but whatever) actors because they got to portray people who they weren’t and got to learn all about swordfighting and skydiving when people actually pay a lot to do those things. Journalism is sort of like acting, not rooting a empathizing with any one person or side, but getting to know the story’s stuff and doing research and asking the right questions.

Anyway this is too long and in an article I would’ve been cut off way before. To sum up, journalism is great.

He is one of my idols.

I love his poetry and his fiction and his non-fiction. I love how he loves films. I wish I could be more like him. As an aspiring journalist, if I could interview him, that would be one of my dreams come true.

This will be when I can have more energy and time to be dedicated to one thing.

57. I’m a rat pack. I still or used to collect the following: Ticket stubs
Programmes
Notepad Documents (online articles)
Posters
Postcards
Business Cards
Stamps, OFDCs
Coins, sort of, Paper bills
CDs
Vinyl Records
DVDs
Books
Bags
Bookmarks
Keychains
Pooh-bear thingers
Teddy bears
Random dollar-store figurines
Receipts
Scrunchies
Coin purses
Candles
Newspaper Articles
Newspaper comics clippings
Crayons, for some reason
Stationery
Pens, Erasers, Pencils, Rulers, Markers
Magazines, sort of
University Prospectuses
School Coursepacks
Used and Unused Calendars
Magnets
Buttons
56. I used to have these problems with hearing when all of a sudden for one or two seconds my hearing would just go fuzzy. That was in elementary school, about every two months.
55. I used to have weird visions of my bedroom in my head when I was in bed just before I would wake up, especially when I was sick. The perspective would be that I was so much smaller and the room was that of a giant’s.
54. I don’t mind eating plain oatmeal or cornmeal.
53. I’m obssessed with languages and want to learn so many of them. Unlike some other people though, I am trying.
52. My favourite type of social gatherings are house parties!
51. I’m a sucker for muffins.
50. I say “sorry” when really I mean “thank you” a lot of the time.
49. Someday I want to live in New Jersey for a while. Or Maine.
48. I’m a sucker for 21st century, filmed-in-New Jersey, “indie” movies, The Station Agent & Imaginary Heroes being prime examples.
47. If I invite you out to dinner, it means I want something from you (i.e. money or something you owe me).
46. “The sun that we shine upon ourselves is ambivalent like a king (is).”
45. “Just as long as I don’t have to wed the cowboys of dawn I’ll be fine.”
44. “The fabrication of your mortal crimes makes no sense to me.”
43. I simply cannot look people in the eye. Yes, I am apparently distrustworthy.
42. I’m a dragon and a Gemini.
41. I prefer teddy bears to dolls.
40. In other words, I’m an all-or-nothing type of person.
39. I don’t believe in second chances, no matter how hard I try to.
38. I’m a dog person.
37. I prefer younger men.
36. I love late-night radio.
35. Another fetish is hockey goalies.
34. I have a fetish for people with casts. But I hate hospitals, although I owe my life to them literally.
33. And Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for that matter.
32. And Garden State.
31. I hate Family Guy.
30. When I was in grade 1 (seven years old) this third grade kid caught me by the throat while I was coming out of the washroom and proceeded to choke me around the throat. He had a mushroom cut.
29. I want to get a gerbil or some other small rodent and name it Life.
28. I’m a sucker for floppy disks.
27. I’ve lived at least 50% of my life feeling cold all the time.
26. I secretly like the smell of cigarette smoke although I’ve never smoked a day in my life.
25. I like my toasted marshmallows golden brown.
24. I’ve had glasses since I was five years old—>natural born geek!
23. I collect business cards, but mostly they must be from places I’ve personally visited.
22. I love handbags—the collection just keeps on building!
21. I hate jewelery. I don’t even have my ears pierced.
20. I like girl’s names that have ‘ana’ somewhere in them.
19. I like boy’s names that has a ‘k’ sound in them.
18. I used to be a stickler for grammar and spelling and would condemn anyone who thought otherwise, but now I’ve loosened up.
17. Bears and wolves are my (tied) favourite animals.
16. I’m scared and vulnerable.
15. “Her lady and a forester knave went up to buy a bag of chips,” Would be the sentence if you told me to create one right on the spot, right now.
14. I have a keen suspicion that waking up unnaturally (i.e. with the aid of an alarm clock) is bad for you, but I’m too tired to research it.
13. I wake up to, or before, my alarm clock most of the time.
12. I like brushing my teeth in the dark.
11. I want to be a single mother OR have two girls and a boy.
10. Failing that, I wanted to take over John Williams’ job as chief scorer of Steven Spielberg’s films.
9. I used to want to become a conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra. Not anymore.
8. I prefer to watch television by candlelight.
7. I have a large nose fetish.
6. I’d make love to London by Patrick Wolf if it was human.
5. Sometimes when writing tests or exams, my mind wanders off and starts producing songs that I never knew were stuck in my head.
4. Never been kissed.
3. I want to be vegetarian but I feel my parents are holding me back and sometimes I like meat and other times I want to lead a vegan lifestyle and I think all these lifestyle things are really contradictory.
2. I believe every person is a racist at heart, whether they want to admit it or not.
1. I love the taste of Buckley’s cough medicine.

So I decided not to learn a language as close to English as this in university so I went out and now I have these resources:

Pimsleur basic series
FSI Mastering German
German phrase book
German beginner’s dictionary
a bilingual Deutsch-English poetry book (by Paul Celan, no less!)
and German Made Simple

between doing and reading a bit of these whenever I sit down for a second, I think I’ll manage in the long run.

I know it isn’t grammatical but Ich liebe Deustch!