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29 Mar 2013

More Spanish

I just found a site that has 7 bands and artists to listen to when learning Spanish:

Amparanoia

Chavela Vargas

Cultura Profetica

La Kinky Beat

Los Redondos

Lucha Reyes

Manu Chao

No idea what they're like but I guess I'll try listening to them :)
I quite like listening to Enrique Iglesias's spanish songs.. ^-^


Some more are: Los Rakas, Juanes, Jorge Drexler, Julieta Venegas, Cristian Castro (No podras), Juan Luis Guerra(Ojala que llueva cafe), La llorona, Lhasa DeSela...
That's enough I should think ^-^


26 Mar 2013

Birds without wings

I'm reading a book called Birds without wings by  Louis de Bernieres and I haven't got very far yet but I must say I found this part funny:

Veled gives a cigarette to his camel and explains:
"It's from always walking behind me. He got used to the smoke from my cigarettes, and then he got to like it, and now he won't do anything until I let him have a smoke first."

lol..!!

Anyway, I'll go back to reading now ^___^

Nanananaaaa

There are so many clocks in this house..!! So hard to concentrate.
Pff I feel like a geek.. It's so annoying when you're waiting for someone to answer so you keep checking your phone/facebook.. anything.. and every time you look there's nothing, but when they finally answer, you're so happy and so you answer straight away.. x)

I think I'll go get my book..



Nande konna ni suki ni natta no.. yabai. kare to hanashitai kedo naka naka henji konai.
dou shiyou! kare wa watashi no koto nanto omotteru no?
Hon yomou.. a ra ra. atama ga "suki ni naranaide." to itteru kedo kokoro ga "iyada!" to henji shiteru. "kono hito ga suki" to itteru.

Ara ma.. Tabun kono posuto wa Ayumi shika wakannai yo ne! Ima wa nihongo tsukaenai kara romaji de kaiteru. Sore ni nihongo de kaitara ano hito ga google translate de wakaru you ni naru kamo :P


Ja ne!

25 Mar 2013

Interpreting and translating

I've been talking to my grandma about interpreting or translating and she said that simultaneous interpreting is a very stressful career because you have to listen to what someone is saying, understand it thoroughly and formulate that in the 2nd language while saying what the person had said 5-10 seconds previously!!

Translating would be with written material, so less stress but you'd have to have a broad knowledge of both cultures.

I don't know if I would be able to do either to be honest, but I feel like I should try!

Who knows.. by the time I can even think about getting a job, they might have amazing machines everywhere that translate simultaneously... or robots.
Imagine if we just had robots and machines for everything! No more jobs for the humans.. apart from the people who invent/make/repair the robots I guess O_o



I could just busk in the streets, and use my languages for songwriting :P




24 Mar 2013

Mleh? Helm?

My friend wrote a story for me yesterday. An awesome story about a unicorn, and I'd like to illustrate it!
That would be epic.
I just have to do it. But I probably won't, coz I'm that kind of person.

Listening to this mix atm http://8tracks.com/mainhannah/favourite-worship-music
Meri sent it to me, it's cool :)

Mleh.. I'm in a weird mood today .__.  I want to read my book, to draw, to do more Spanish and many other things. I just haven't done them! Apart from the Spanish that is :P

I've still got sand in my shoes~ (Dido)

Hmmm humm hummm.... me  aburro? mleh ._.


Letter in Spanish

Right. So yesterday I wrote a letter in Spanish to work on making sentences and stuff.
And here it is, it's very  random but yeh :P

Querida Barbara,

Mientras las vacaciones quieres venir en Suiza? Mi casa es grande asi puedes dormir en el otro dormitorio.
Este verano hace sol. Podemos nadar en el lago Leman.
De costumbre hago compras y leo los libros.
Que quieres hacer? Iremos a la montana y podremos ver muchos animales.
Hay una vista fenomenal tambien.
En verano la mayoria de la gente va en el extranjero pero en invierno esquia mucho.
El ano pasado fui en Francia para aprender el frances.
Recientemente he comenzado a hacer camping. Si quieres, vamos hacer camping juntas. Podriamos hacer mucho juntas. Me alegro de verte.

Un abrazo

Naomi



Obviously there are many mistakes seeing as I'm not very good at Spanish.. and I can't use the Spanish accents or anything but yeh :)
Hopefully when I look back at this post in a year or so I'll be able to say "Ahaha I used to be so rubbish a Spanish compared to now!"


My grandma told me that the average person has a limit to how many languages they can know. And it's around 6!

It would be cool to be able to speak 6 languages... But I'd like to speak more than that!
English, French, Japanese, German, Spanish, Poruguese, Italian, Chinese and Korean (that's what I have in mind anyway.. who knows, I might decide to learn arabic or something :P )



22 Mar 2013

Thoughts

I don't really know why I write so much these days, it must be to free me from my boredom or something. As if I didn't have more important things to do!! I really need to do some more Spanish, and I can't really say I can't work because of my cold.. Because that's not a good excuse, even if I do have one.

Anyway.

I met up with my sister Phili last night which was amazing!! It was so nice being just the 2 of us so we could talk as much as we wanted.
So we talked about what's been happening in our lives the past year.. (It feels so weird to not see my siblings all the time and yet so normal coz I'm used to it... Hopefully we'll all meet up this summer, I couldn't last year coz I was in Japan!)
And so we were talking and we got onto the subject of jobs. I still don't really know what I want to do or even can do, but I'm thinking something to do with languages.
There are loads of things I could do I just don't know about them so it would be cool to go to a university and see what courses they have :)

At one point I was thinking I could go to Africa or China or something and teach English (Or French or something..) aswell as telling them about the gospel and so I'd have to do a course on theology too...but I don't think I really want to be a teacher!!


I might change my mind at some point I guess, we'll see.

Another thing I could do is translate. I always thought I should try it, but the thing is I'm no good at translating, let alone translating simultaneously into several languages! I'd have to work really hard for that, and there are more and more people who speak many languages so I'm not sure how easy it would be to get a job.

I saw a video on yahoo recently about a man who was in his 20s I think, and he speaks 11 languages. Imagine being able to speak so many languages!
It would be AWESOME!!!!!!!
I set myself a goal: to speak 5 languages fluently before I'm 20. I don't know how easy this will be.. I mean I'm 16 now and I speak English, French and Japanese. However, my level in all of these languages is well.. very low! I went to school in English until I was 11 and then had to learn French and just when I was getting the hang of it I went and decided to go to Japan for a year! Which improved my Japanese a lot but didn't help with my English and French. Or my German..


At the moment I'm learning Spanish and not doing too well. I'm also studying German for my exams.

So if you count all the languages I'm studying or have been studying, it makes 5! I just have to become fluent in all of them. Easier said than done :P

This is getting really long.. and I've forgotten the whole point of this post.



Mleh.


I'll continue in another post I think ^^'

Nao

Espanol

Buenos dias, me llamo Naomi. Tengo dieciseis anos. Soy inglesa pero vivo en..Suiza?  Creo que en espanol Switzerland se dice suiza.. no lo se!

(Can't do accents on this computer and can't be bothered to copy and paste from somewhere..)

I'm terrible at Spanish! >__<



I will try and write something soon.

19 Mar 2013

Snowboarding and England

So! On Friday, I had another little adventure :) My mum drove me and my brother over to France to go snowboarding for the afternoon! We had planned on staying in Switzerland but couldn't find anywhere with enough snow and pistes so we went over the border and ended up just staying there :D

It was sooo nice! It was a school day so it was basically empty, and the sun was out and the snow was brilliant! Not soft powder snow but it wasn't icy or slushy which is good ^___^

I tried to snowboard switch, I'm goofy so I was just trying to snowboard normally.. but it's HARD!!
 It feels so wrong and it makes me feel like a complete beginner again o_o
 (Not that I'm much better boarding goofy..)
 My brother had a week of lessons a few weeks ago so he knew how to do switch and he was trying to show me how to carve aswell! It's not very hard.. but I can't seem to do it very well ToT
 He also showed me how to do 180s.. just when you're going down the mountain, you start turning and then you jump round.. it's confusing..!!
Especially when he's normal and I'm goofy so it's the other way round for everything.

Well anyway, I tried twice and then decided I wanted to try it when there was softer snow, just to be safe, so we went up the lift one last time and raced down! :) I won, but only coz someone cut infront of Nat and then he forgot to turn left towards the cafe where our parents were waiting :P Nyahaha



I'm glad I went snowboarding again! even if it was only an hour ^^

What else? Oh yes, so on Saturday I went and got on a plane and flew to England! My grandparents met me at the airport and we went to an indian restaurant, YUM! I had a cider.. just because xD
And then on Sunday I went with my grandad to a pub in Birmingham where he played with his jazz band :) It was really cool ^-^ And it was St Patrick's day so everyone was wearing green hats and drinking guinness ^^ I had a ginger beer..

Then went to Jimmy Spices which was cool, I tried loads of different things :) And... what else? I did some Spanish with my grandma :D (That's one of the reasons I came here, to learn Spanish).

Right, lunchtime :)

14 Mar 2013

The phoenix feather

Oh and here is a trailer to a book my friend has written .. :) I can't imagine writing a book.. It's 294 pages long (I think..)  and yeh :) Just sharing it round ^^ It's called The Phoenix Feather.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3c2MbVwQWs&feature=youtube_gdata_player




Exams and cats

Why is it so hard to study.. .__.

The only thing I've done today is some German..!!!! Mleh :(

I really need to work more coz I have less than 2 months till the exams now..

Lalalalaaaa ... Just give me some candy~ (Candy-Paolo Nutini) Got that song stuck in my head.. ^^



I'm actually warming to cats... I don't like them as much as dogs, but they have their good sides too I guess.. and they can be adorable sometimes!! (when they're not scratching you.. T-T)
What else? :)

13 Mar 2013

Rainymood

I have started listening to most of my music with rainymood on in the background.. I don't know why but it just makes me feel so relaxed.. and it  helps me study :)

Right now I'm listening to Just friends by Jason Reeves with rainymood.
Ed Sheeran and Lucy Rose are also nice to listen to with it.. I think it would go well with most songs really!


Rain <3




And now Every avenue- Between you and I

I love it when you get lost on this side of youtube :) Loads of songs I don't know but go really well with rainymood.

I've been looking for cool German music recently and I like CRO and Tim Bendzko ^__^

Oh and it's my dad's birthday so Happy Birthday dad!!! :) <3 


12 Mar 2013

Japan

I just realised that I started to put up pictures of Japan on this blog but never finished..
Terrible!
I just made an album of pics on facebook so I guess I could put some of them up here too..
Or just my faves! Here we go:

 My class, 1I
 A cute and fluffy thing..
 My host brother, YuuKun and LoveChanthe toy poodle :3
 Another cute thing
 Disney with Hanako
 Me,SyuChan, RinChan and Mori Sensei
 Me and Okaasan
 Me,Yukko and Kitty
 Pikachu
 Totoro
Sakura at Hanami <3



Okay! :) So that's some pics of Japan! And I'll write something else in my blog another time.. :) I could put a pic of me snowboarding too :D




Yay! I LOVE SNOWBOARDING!!!!!

Little things that can bring so much happiness

So, on Saturday evening I had gone to a sermon about Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and it was all good but it was getting later and later and I was with my sister and we had to get a bus back home and we were thinking about how we would get home if we missed the last bus...

But if we had left early we would never have experienced what happened in that particular bus at half 10. So we were waiting at the bus stop, staring at the junction where the bus should come round the corner, when we both go "huh??". We had both seen different things but they made us equally surprised! What I had seen was a guitar, in a bus! And what Meri had seen was a weird red hat with pointy bits and bobbles on it.
As the bus got nearer my grin was just getting wider and wider! We got on it and as soon as we sat down, some Spanish guy was asking us in French if we had requests. They didn't know the song I gave so they played a spanish song instead but it was so cool! I turned around to watch the guy with the guitar (he was really good!!) and I got another surprise! There was a giant monkey! (toy)
And so they were playing these songs and they were singing along (There were 5 of them I think) and the people in the bus had started singing too!
It was so fun :D
They played Is This Love and some other things and it  was cool coz every time the bus stopped, someone would get on and you could see how they reacted.. :DD
Most people would look surprised and then just laugh!! People outside the bus could hear aswell so they would start singing on the pavements ^_^

At one point one guy took his hat off and pretended to ask for money as if they were busking!

The bus driver didn't seem bothered either.. he seemed quite amused really :P

So me and Meri got off at the station and jokingly gave the group a coin xD I told them how cool it  was and they should do it more often haha, and they saked if we wanted to join them coz they were having a party (Antonio's party apparently :P) We declined but it  was still cool of them to ask ^-^



So yeh..  that was long.. !!!
It just made my day.. :) (And that is impressive coz in the morning I'd gone to the ladies breakfast and had cake and muffins...yum!! blueberry muffins! ( * ^ * ) )








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10 Mar 2013

Back at home

Hello~
My friend has pointed out to me that I haven't updated my blog in a long time and I guess that's just because I now see the only people who read it so I don't feel as much need to update it but anyway.. :)

I've been back in Switzerland for almost 2 months now and it feels nice to be back, even if I do miss Japan a bit..!!
I've been studying for exams which are in May and I also hope to get a job at some point!



Now that I've said what's going on in my life, time for some randomness!
I have started snowboarding this year, I went on an oakhall ski camp in Italy with family and friends which was amazing!!! I got there only to find out that they didn't have snowboarding lessons which was a shame but it didn't matter too much because my friend David is an awesome snowboarder and so he taught me the basics, yay! :D Even if it was a bit mad going on a red slope the first day..!! And a black slope the 2nd day haha... that was scary x) It was an awesome week, we stayed in a lovely 4 star hotel (I think?)  and I got to know loads of cool people :)))
Including another snowboarder who's a nurse and who just got married, she was awesome! And a guy called Johnny who is the same age as me and who is a juggling champion! And also kendama! (japanese yay!!) so yeh, cool cool~

On the last day Me, Meri, David and Johnny went off piste and we did a jump!! I didn't land.. but Johnny and David did! :)) There were some goPro people filming us and they said they'd send the video to us which is cool, still waiting for it tho..






How am I writing so much? O_o I must be bored..
I'm on RainyMood.com atm.. it's so cool! you can listen to youtube videos with rain in the background!!!!!!!!
What else.. oh yes I listened to Sunshine and City Sights by Greyson Chance for the first time today and it's really good. I should find an 8tracks mix with him in it...




What else? O-h! I dyed my hair RED!!! ^____^ 



Can you see that it's red? Kinda? :) I redyed it since so it's redder now :3

I'll stop there I think... Toodles!