Subject: I fool everyone.
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Posted on: 2013-06-04 23:20:00 UTC
This one British expat thought I had a British accent over the phone, and several Tumblr people thought I came from London, and... yeah.
No, I'm just a huge Anglophile who's been studying British history since Sophomore (well, really Freshman, if you count my getting-into-Hetalia bit) year.
To think, that a series of stories created by two American girls, which parodied bad LoTR fics, would expand into a multi-fandom, intercontinental community such as the PPC currently is! So, of course, the obvious question: How diverse are we?
From the posts I’ve read, it appears that we have at least
one Haitian-American (yours truly)
one Italian (Or is that Italian-American?)
two Brits
one Chinese-American
one Malaysian
and one Indonesian
And I’m willing to guess that we also have one Israeli, given that his agent counterpart apparently knows some Hebrew.
Obviously, this cannot be the exclusive list of all the countries represented on the PPC Board! So, if I misidentified you, please correct me. And if I have not run across you yet, please identify yourself!
Vive la diversité!
I am Australian, although I appear to be the only one left at this point - we used to have several Aussies and at least two Kiwis.
-The other 7/8ths would be American, I guess.
From the South to be more precise. I know there are a few of us Southerners around the PPC.
At least, that's how I identify myself on ethnicity questions. My mom's Brazilian, from Rio, though.
He's got German ancestry, but he's originally from Ohio. I mean German as in back to the Mayflower time period German (My Uncle has this thing about Genealogy).
Interesting. But IMHO, one usually only goes back to one's parents when identifying one's ethnicity. So you'd be correct in saying "American," or at least "half-Brazilian," since as far as anyone is concerned, your father is American.
Usually I do- my Mom's culture is just a little interesting tidbit. Besides, this comes up a lot. You have no idea the size of the Brazilian population in Iowa.
And how does your ancestry end up coming up a lot?
Anglo-Saxon/Irish/Scottish/Russian/Ukrainian-American, to be precise. It's an odd mix.
Well, Norwegian-Irish German-born American citizen, to be precise.
I had no idea there were so many of us! Do any of you live in or near Ontario? We should have a Gathering. One where we sit in an igloo watching hockey games and eating poutine and pancakes with maple syrup and saying 'aboot' and 'eh' a lot.
Seriously, why are we stereotyped as saying 'aboot' all the time? I mean, it's quite possible that some people do (haven't met any myself, but I've been told it happens), but isn't that Scottish? Why does Canada share a stereotype with Scotland?
*crawls back inside portable igloo, which is beginning to melt in the Israeli heat*
~DF
If I'm not mistaken, a lot of Scots were in Canada when the continent was first being settled. I presume the stereotype comes from them.
(I mostly know because I once had Hugh Fraser as Scottish-Canadian before I just made him Scottish-English for accuracy to his historical figure counterpart. There are apparently a lot of Frasers in Canada.)
If Toronto's on the east side of the continent, I may see if I could get myself up there from Massachusetts. Or I could just, yaknow, try to organise/attend a Boston or New York Gathering...
I'm going to be in Boston for most of July. No idea if I'll be able to attend a Gathering, but still. If planning for a Boston Gathering in July happens, then I want to know.
Straight from one of Italy's best ice-cream shops. And Italian ice-cream is the best.
Along with Italian foods, wines, cars, helicopters, and... And if I don't stop right here I'll start getting death stares.
Gelato would also work. And maybe bring along some pasta or pizza (or both), since now I'm getting pretty hungry.
(Switzerland has the best chocolate, in my opinion. There's a reason I created Swiss Bleepolate.)
Also, Canada has these wonderful pastries that are oddly called Beavertails. I don't think Italy has those.
/is a total Italy fan, especially when it comes to Hetalia/
~DF
Is actually the Italian word for icecream. Don't tell me that this is another misused Italian term...
Like "confetti". Those are actually sugared almonds, not coloured paper pieces. Those are called "coriandoli". And "pepperoni" is actually "peperoni", with a single t, and means peppers, not sausages!
And we have some pretty good chocolate here too. Yes, if it exists, Italians do it better.
Gelato as I know it is...hm, what is it, exactly? It's not exactly ice cream, more of a...yeah, I have no idea how to describe it. It's like a creamless ice cream, or something. It's pretty good.
Huh. I knew the confetti/coriandoli bit (it came up on the Board a bit ago), but I didn't know the bit about peperoni. Then again, I'm vegetarian...
I'm actually slowly starting to learn Italian. In the rare moments that I'm actually doing that, would you be amenable to potentially answering questions?
...okay, I've had Italian chocolate, and I will concede that it's pretty good. I don't remember the taste well enough to be sure if I think it's on par with Swiss chocolate or not, though. (Odds are I like them both equally.) (What's the Italian word for chocolate?) (Argh, I'm so lazy. I have an Italian dictionary on the shelf just above me. This is ridiculous.)
To your last point: Well, quite possibly...but Israel's still top-notch in technology (not based on a survey, just general knowledge). Also, I have three countries to use in arguments. Hurrah!
~DF
Disclaimer: No offense is meant to anyone of Italian persuasion or otherwise. And now I want pasta again. This I will blame on Italians.
...wait...don't tell me the word 'spaghetti' actually means short, round noodles...my life may never be the same!
And you can find my mail on the Beta Readers page on the Wiki, in case you don't want to use the Board.
The Italian word ofor "chocolate" is cioccolato, and about ice-cream... if I understood it correctly by mi little research, what you call "gelato" is just one of the various kinds of ice-creams. It's a bit like if you called pasta with an English term and used the Italian term only for spaghetti.
Speaking of that, spaghetti is used right in English.
I think that the English language's approach to loanwords is one of these two:
1) Mug other languages in the back alleys and grab loose vocabulary from their pockets
2) Accumulate phrases from a mixture of grabbing them at garage sales and having them just turn up in drawers and shelves, then when you try to use them you find that you're missing half the pieces and the instruction manual either comes in French, German, and Esperanto, is covered in unidentifiable stains, or was never there in the first place.
I'm near Ottawa! (Going to be living there full time as of this August)
Hey, cool!
My geography is terrible, so I'm not actually sure how close that is to where I usually am, but I do remember we went there for our grade 8 end-of-the-year trip, so it can't be too far. I think it took us about six or nine hours on the bus? We stopped halfway, so I'm not sure. Also, that was some time ago by now.
Hm, this could probably work out, somehow. Now to see if there's anyone else in the area as well...
~DF
Its about a four hour drive in my experience, probably slower by public transportation.
We could do a mini-gathering here in Israel, where it's so hot and dry that even the green is brown and you get colds from air conditioning.
*sniffs* Ugh, stupid air conditioning...can't live without it, but it makes you suffer. I was actually coughing yesterday, and I was sneezing earlier today. Not so fun.
As to a mini-Gathering, I'm in! I'm not actually free until after June 20th--my program's winding down, and I have far too many arrangements to make--but after that I have ten days with nothing planned. Are you (and any other Israelis reading this post) free around then? I've also got spare time at the end of July, if that works better...
Stay safe, Des.
~DF
-Looks at his calender-
The week after the 20th, you say? I shall make it happen. (Good thing about this particular post is that I decide my shifts with another guy.)
As to staying safe... I'm one of the safest places around. Nobody will be shooting at me anytime soon.
That sounds like a pretty great post. I'm guessing you finished basic training quite a while ago?
...I've become so Israeli this year. Next thing you know, I'll be sharing stories of my own non-existent army service and wearing that same hair-clip thing that most of the army girls wear...oh, wait, I already do the latter one. Hm.
Glad to hear it. Actually, except for the actual being in the army bit, I've been in a similar position this year--I've been out in the middle of nowhere, pretty much, which was rather a relief when the rockets were falling. What wasn't such a relief was having my twelve-year-old cousin sending out a short group email update about how they don't have a shelter near their house and that the rockets--which reached her city--were frightening. I think I went from, 'For heaven's sake, don't tell your grandparents that' to 'please don't tell me that, either'. And most of my friends were scattered around the country that weekend, too. It...was a tense time. Fortunately, none of them were hurt.
Heh. That got long. Anyway, after the 20th it is! D'you know any other Israeli Boarders we can round up?
(Organizing a Canadian Gathering is going to be so much harder, isn't it. At least in Israel most things are only a few hours away by bus. For one of the Canadians who's responded, we're talking 5 hours by plane.)
~DF
Yeah, it's a nifty post. Finished basic training half a year ago. Finished the course about four months ago (Cipher/Technological Deciphering, צפ"ט - צופן פענוח טכנולוגי, in case you're wondering. Not as interesting as it sounds) and got here about two months ago.
The rockets... well, I was lucky I was at Camp 80 for BT and not Nitzanim. A friend of mine was there - and it was when Pillar of Defence rolled around the corner. Not nice.
As to more Israeli Boarders... Unfortunately, no. Let's hope that I will be proven wrong and that there're more than just the two of us.
...but that they mostly hung out at the IRC? Hm.
Huh. I was wondering, but...I'm still actually learning how to understand the different parts of the army, and I don't think I've heard of yours (beyond the general concept). Then again, most of the girls here are going to הוד (does that get the quote marks? I have no idea) or חיל האוויר or a third thing that I've forgotten, so that may be it--it's possible they just aren't going to צפ"ט. Or maybe someone did and I missed it, which is quite possible considering that I'm talking about something like sixty girls.
I feel like you probably had to sign an agreement not to reveal confidential information. Did you? צפ"ט sounds like it would be a program that would require that...Also, while I'm asking questions, where's your English from? Just school/friends, or do you have English-speaking parents?
Oh, wow. I mainly just had to worry about someone who was in Tel Aviv. I remember there were three of us--everyone else had already left for the weekend, and I was the only one who was staying for the actual weekend, the other two were leaving Friday morning. So we had dinner together in a classroom, and every five minutes or so we'd check the news. And none of our classmates had gone to the army yet, so...it probably would actually have been better if they had, because then at least we'd know what base they were on. As it was, it was a whole lot of 'where is everyone? I know one girl was in Tel Aviv, but another had two places she might have been going to, and oh, hey! This one's just texted me to say she's alright!' Most stressful dinner ever, especially considering that we were three בנות חו"ל (girls from abroad, for anyone reading this who doesn't know Hebrew). I suppose I should stop bringing this up, since every time I do my post gets really long...although I do have a tendency to write long posts even when I'm not talking about rockets. Hm.
Hm. Maybe we should make a new thread about this mini-Gathering? It might be easier to find more Israeli PPCers if there's a thread with 'Israel Gathering' in the subject line.
~DF
Not many people hear about the C4I Corps until the army decides to send them there, and there's not a lot of interesting stuff going there anyway. צפ"ט, in fact, was used to be a girls-only course (the male equivalent was צפ"ר, צופן פענוח רשתות - C/ND, Cipher/Network Deciphering).
As to an NDA agreement: I signed two. Well, the same one twice.
Also, new thread? I'm on it.
in DawnFire's long post--and one that I am interested in, BTW. How did you learn your English?
Yeah, 'twas a long-post indeed.
How I learned my English...? Well... back when we had a TV at home, it was British (that's where I found Thunderbirds, BTW). That certainly helped. Add to that a certain natural aptitude for languages, a lot of reading and speaking... and there you have it. Being a computers person also helped, I guess, since the amount of interesting stuff you can find about computers in Hebrew is pretty much nil.
That being said, my English is far from perfect, though I've come a long way; I've recently looked at something I wrote a few years ago, and it wasn't pretty. Full of errors and really stilted-sounding.
Private Des a' yer service, sir.
I am indeed from Israel; I am currently serving as a soldier in the IDF's C4I Corps.
Kudos for noticing the fact that agent!Des speaks Hebrew.
Another Brit here - I come from Oop North meself. :P Not quite the Scottish borders, but what we call the North-West.
No, only kidding - with parents from Leeds and Darlington, I can hardly talk.
hS
And I think we have a couple of other Scandinavians on Board as well.
As in, "the part of Arizona where misery beats down from the skies every June through August."
Don't worry, I can somewhat relate. Modesto stays the exact same temperature in the morning as in the evening during the Summer, and it lasts from June to whenever Fall officially hits in Modesto, so I'm suffering as well.
I'm Filipina, though I don't look like it. It must be due to some foreign blood from my mother's side. I almost always get mistaken for a Japanese/Chinese girl, it's hilarious for my relatives.
(Can't even speak Chinese out of the most basic things I can remember. Little Fokien, almost everything Mandarin. Adapted almost entirely to English, it's easier to use than Tagalog at any rate.)
Anybody else from that neck of the woods? (Pun was intended.)
…but since "upstate" means "north of New York City", I'm actually quite close to the PA border.
And yes. Woods. We has them.
Talk about a small world: I happen to live in NYC! And yes, we in the city do tend to consider anything north of us "upstate," even if it is only Westchester County (the next county north of the Bronx, for those who don't know).
Modesto, California.
Dying from the heat.
But I have a pool, so meh.
Actually, I was born and raised in Ukiah. Despite that it is literally haiku spelled backwards, there are zero brainiacs, poets, or writers there.
Well, myself not included, of course. [/Totally Not Stroking Ego]
Fun fact: the band A.F.I. was formed in Ukiah, and Ukiah is a forty-five-ish minute drive from Santa Rosa, where celebrity chef Guy Fierri was born.
Not that this has any bearing on me, now that I'm living right next to the bay area, but still.
I used to live pretty close to there. That is, we lived close ennough that my mom commuted to work there. I think we lived about half an hour to an hour away.
How's Cali, besides the heat? Wow, I really need to get there for a visit, it's been too long.
~DF
My mom also commutes to work from Modesto.
NorCal is NorCal, what can I say. Although, living in the outer edge of a city owned by a big name wine company (I just know I'm going to spell this wrong, but I think it's Gallow?) is an interesting change of scenery from run-down, drug-infested Ukiah.
And oh, is my old town an eyesore. The only spot of good on it is my old house, and the realtors can't even get it to sell because things are so bad there.
Now there's a mini-Guy Fieri running around the Board! If we don't catch him, he's going to install himself as the High Chaplain of the hundreds of mini-Boarders we've got running around, and will then swarm the place en masse, purging anyone who opposes his mandate of forced mirth and celebrity recipes!
And if any one of us has ever created a mini-Betty Crocker... and the two of them ever meet...
That's it.
Game over, man. Game over.
I'm calling the DIA, the DES, and let's get the DMFF involved too, just to be on the safe side. We need this thing found, and the more people searching, the better.
And the worst part is? I spelled his name correctly the first time around.
Here, take my Shoot-Gun of Shotting. It's loaded with magical buckshot just in case.
Can't we just get a mini-blood waterfall and mini-Roxy's Mom/post-scratch Rose to deal with him?
You see, due to his alternate identity as a World One celebrity, he creates a mini-Human, but any mini of Rose or Roxy would create a Homestuck mini, whatever that turns out to be. It would thus be far less capable of defeating the mini version of the High Chaplain of the Jugglefascists. It would probably be a mini-Giclops or a mini-Lil Cal or something. It would be nowhere near his match.
Also, I have no idea where we'd get enough mini-blood to create a waterfall out of it. Well, I have one idea, but it's awful and would require putting a mini species with a powerful healing factor through what essentially amounts to torture, and I will not have that.
We will not become what we are trying to destroy.
...of simply writing up a few mini-Big Goods of that kind where the status quo - that peace reigns and everone's happy - never permanently changes?
I mean, mini-God (aka mini-Morgan Freeman) might be overkill, but...
I don't know. It's one of those ideas you get just after waking up. Better post it now while it still seems intelligent.
By the way, God Man is an actual comic book hero. I think, in all honesty, that he's a troll hero, but he exists. XD
...a few Daedric Princes and the odd alicorn.
And I'm fairly certain my sister has Luna on speed dial.
Team Siblings: ALWAYS PREPARED (When the plot demands it.)
Board might be freezing for a thousand years, though.
Doesn't matter. Saves the energy needed to cool the servers. Hope they're not solar-powered.
Which means DUCK when the cool wave hits, we don't know what they'll do.
Certainly there's some kind of ACME insurance to cover this.
He's got AWESOME CUISINE on his side, I don't think that would work.
If he meets a mini-Betty Crocker or a mini of either member of the Insane Clown Posse, he will likely attempt to reconstruct the horrific society of his ideal post-apocalyptic Earth.
We will not have a mini-instigated Hilarocaust. It is unacceptable.
I will take the magical gun that you granted the effort in your earlier post. A weapon formed by the mini-High Chaplain's creator should be able to bring him down.
Now we only have to find him.
It's part of SC's Arsenal. Without it, I can only cover two range types.
(Yes, shotguns can be mid-range weapons, shut up anybody who says otherwise, I own a hunting shotgun IRL, I know this.
[/defensiveness])
I couldn't find a mini of either of the types he would be looking for, which means that he might not be able to find one either. I could find a mini-Giclops, Gamgee, and a Bety-mini of the character Betty from the Archie comics. Maybe I can use the latter as bait. Nah. I have no idea what it looks like, so I'm not even going to pick it up.
Without the support of his superiors, the mini-Guy Fieri should be significantly weakened, and the Board's security units have managed to narrow his location down to a certain section of hallways. It took a bit of convincing before they took me seriously, and even now I'm pretty certain that they're only blocking off the suspect corridors to humor me.
I'm mobilizing the mini-Agents to go with me, if only to incapacitate the mini-Guy Fieri before I blast at him. It's always better to have some form of backup.
The little jerk is always trying to fight something, might as well let him vent his rage on an evil mini.
Californian, actually, just like Aelin two replies down. I think splendour looks better spelled the British way, though.
-Aila
Although two of my uncles are Russian, my grandmother's from Hungary, my grand-dad was a Pole...and I'm pretty sure my mom's family came in from Austria quite a few generations back.
Genealogy? Do not ask.
California, specifically, but I'm an inveterate Anglophile and tend to use British spellings. And I can do really good accents.
I'm a child of The Corn, though I'm currently in Cowboy country. For those of you who don't speak football, that makes me American. ^^;
I'm in Omaha NE.
and if so, you're currently in Texas. So that leaves that "child of the Corn" part to be translated. Cheese, I'd understand (for non-football fans, "Cheesehead" is a term for fans of the Green Bay Packers), but corn? Please explain.
But I'm talking college ball. ^^ So I'm a Cowboy a little to the North.
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Having only been a Cowboy for a couple years, living with a die-hard fan in the college's town, and not really following anything but college level, and vaguely at that, I often forget there is a professional team that shares the name. ^^;
Anyway, I am first, foremost, though it doesn't really matter now that they've switched conferences, and always a Nebraska Cornhusker:
You nearly had it with the "Cheesehead" thing though!
The mystical land of Cookietopia. Okay, no, not really, I made it up. I'm an American.
...Holy Christ, you're also part-Norwegian?
AWESOME!!!!
Well, I'm an American, so yeah. Also yes, desdendelle is Israeli. In fact, he's on his legally-required military service now.
Don't be fooled by my German username: I'm a second-generation immigrant, borne of two people who came from Cuba. In fact, one of my prospective missions was going to have a Castro joke, but... unfortunately, that was a co-op mission and my cowriter isn't anywhere to be seen.
Shame on me. First I could have sworn that Lily was a Brit (though that's more due to my somehow rememberhing her using British spellings in her missions), and now here you are, saying that you're Cuban. Never judge a book by its cover, eh?
Then again, anyone well-versed in history would have reason to have thought that I was Chinese!
This one British expat thought I had a British accent over the phone, and several Tumblr people thought I came from London, and... yeah.
No, I'm just a huge Anglophile who's been studying British history since Sophomore (well, really Freshman, if you count my getting-into-Hetalia bit) year.
She was even working on the Gdocs fo Multiverse Monitor and other stuff at the same hours I was working there too... and since I live in Italy, that made me think that she was in a similar time zone, and thus a Brit!
You do that on purpose, Lily?
That's me being an insomniac, or possibly just chilling around at 11am here when it's pretty late over there.
you were using British spellings! (Of course, the best thing for me to do would be to reread your missions to be sure, but that's a lot of work just to spot some few variant spellings!)
But if so, why? I'm not going to be quick to chalk it up to force of habit, since I believe that someone exposed to American English since childhood would not so quickly convert to British spellings after only a few years of studying British history...in America.
I started writing in British English in Freshman year. No teachers bothered correcting me back into American English, so I just kept on writing like that.
I think it came partly because I wrote most of my Hetalia fanfics from Arthur's perspective and I didn't want Americanisms popping up willy-nilly in his speech. I did a year or two RPing as him, too, which cemented the habit, and then when I started writing for fandoms like Sherlock and Doctor Who, it wasn't that far of a stretch to continue that way.
Still, since most of my fandoms are either created by Brits or set in Britain, it's more of just a "adapting to the tone" sorta thing that got stuck. Also, I get to sound like a posh git, so there's that, too.
I recall the quote as something like: "You're American? I thought you were from Northern London or something!"
*sigh* Those were the days, approximatelyayear-and-a-halfago,orsomethinglikethat.
Because near the end of the last sentence, itappearsthatyoustoppedusingyourspacebar,forwhateverreason.
I was trying to make a joke where I was speaking fast in order to cover a rather long sentence without ruining the flow of the one that I was saying already.
Sadly, there's no good way to imply fast speech on the internet.
*sigh*
Actually, your situation is not that hopeless: running words together is a completely viable way of implying fast speech--though (unfortunately) not as universally recognizable as, say, using all caps to symbolize shouting.
It derps out on him when he doesn't want it to.
I use my phone because I currently don't have a laptop that I could work from.
However! This will soon come to an end, now that I've officially graduated from high school.
(Primarily because you really are needing laptops for jobs more and more where I'm living...)
We've got a few Americans, at least - myself included - and I believe there are actually two Israeli PPCers, though I don't remember the second person. IIRC, we also have a few people from the Philippines, or at least we did.
but she's Canadian. So...
I'm actually Canadian/American/Israeli. Ta. Hurrah for triple citizenship!
Basically, I was born in one part of Canada, hence the Canadian citizenship, my mother's American, which automatically gave me US citizenship (well, she probably had to fill out a form or two, I don't really know), and then we moved to Israel when I was really young, which gave me Israeli citizenship. This gap year I'm taking is actually the first time I've been back in about eleven years. It's been quite the experience.
I've also lived in America, surprisingly close to where SC is.
And I believe there are several other Israelis floating around, but they may be mostly on the IRC? Ask Des, I think he's the one who told me that.
(I just typed all of this on a Kindle. I have never been more tempted to use chatspeak and abreviations, which I'm pretty sure I may have just mispelled...)
Oh, and so there's no confusion- I first learned spelling and reading in America and I clung to it. That's why you'll probably never see me using Canadian spelling, apart from whatever's crept in, because I tend to only use it conciously for schoolwork. (Rebel!DawnFire, this is she. And she looks about as much of a rebel as a tribble does.)
~DF
So, an American-Canadian-Israeli. Quite the mix of cultures there. But you only gave half the story: your mother's American, but what about your father?
And about the citizenship thing, I'm pretty sure that your parents would have had to fill out a form or two, since in order to be an American citizen by birth, the general rule is that you have to be born in the U.S.
Indeed it is. As for my father, he was born in America as well, but eventually decided to give up his US citizenship and keep the Canadian (and Israeli, but I think that came later). Nothing too exciting.
(I lied. He's Irish, but moved around in his youth so that he lived in Poland, Russia, Antarctica, Cookietopia, Wales, Sweden, and Hungary. He has a lot of great photographs from that time.)
Fair enough. Well, they filled out the forms, and I've got citizenship. Quite nice. I just love wandering around Israel with my three passports (American to fly to New York, Israeli to fly to Israel, and Canadian to fly back to Canada). It's lovely.
I'm not sure you ever said where you were from. To that end, where're you from? And don't say 'heaven', that's just cliched :) ('heaven176' wouldn't be so cliched, but it sounds odd and I'd need you to explain why heaven needs a number).
~DF
I mentioned already that I am Haitian-American. To be exact, both my parents are from Haiti, but I was born in the USA, so I am an American citizen.
(Since the Haitian constitution forbids double citizenship, I cannot hold dual Haitian and American citizenship.)
As for my username, it was the username that I used on
I mentioned already that I am Haitian-American. To be exact, both my parents are from Haiti, but I was born in the USA, so I am an American citizen.
(Since the Haitian constitution forbids double citizenship, I cannot hold dual Haitian and American citizenship.)
As for my username, it was the username that I used on
Can't believe I missed that. Pretty cool. Have you ever been to Haiti?
Ooh, Neopets! I remember Neopets. I was also on there, once upon a time, although I can't remember if I used DawnFire as a username there.
~DF
But from what I keep hearing from my family, I definitely want to visit one day.
What that last sentence was supposed to read was:
As for my username, it was the username that I used on Neopets; I decided to use that here as well.
And writing from Italy. In fact, if you look at my first missions, you can clearly see that I am much more fluent in English now than back then.
In fact, all my writing projects are in English now - and that's partly because by joining the PPC I had both the occasion and the incentive to keep working on my knowledge of the language.
I want to thank you all for it. Without the PPC, I don't think I would have been able to achieve this level of fluency. Not this fast, at least.
I'm from the GTA, you?
Yeah, you're right with Des.
Also, Austria here. And I think there's some Canadians around, too.
So, are you currently in Austria, or are you Austrian-American? And I'm curious: do you by any chance speak German?
So yes, I speak German. :D
Hallo Welt!