9!?!?!?! jesus! no wonder your english is so god damn good.
man this is why i hate australian schooling. that makes me so jealous!

i think you made a good decision staying with french. that way you'll know it inside out.

..........if only i'd grown up in europe

I am totally going to learn those languages too. :)

Backpacking sounds so fun. My former best friend (she came to Denmark in 2002 because her father had some work to do, and went back to Iceland two years later) has been to Australia, England and various other places backpacking in every single vacation the past two years, and I'm turning green every time she tells me about it.
And Nams...oh yeah, she's the one with the funny cat avatar? I peeped her once.

I think it's pretty neat as well. We start off with English at the age of 9, and when we're 12 we add French or German to our schedules. When we leave junior high at 16, we can choose to either stick with French/German, or spend the following three years learning a new language aka. Spanish or Italian. Some schools even offer Japanese, haha.

And THANK YOU. I don't get that very often. People take excellent English for granted, haha.

french is awesome man. I would LOVE to speak French. One day I'm going to learn spanish and french.

The first time I went overseas I went alone. The secong time i backpacjed with a friend of mine. She's on here too actually, her user name is Nams.

I'm so envious of the european schooling system. I wish they taught languages in highschool here!!! I had to choose italian as an elective but i didn't learn much in those two years.

Your english is excellent by the way

Goddamnit, that's so cool, Rachael. Do you study while abroad or do you just do it for the experience? And hey, alone? I feel you. I'm quite bummed I didn't choose Spanish when I got to high school or college or whatever it's called when you're at the age of 16-17... But I decided to stick with French, since I had had it for three years already, and I really really want to learn the goddamn language.

I have travelled a bit. I lived in Switzerland for a year and saw quite a bit of europe in that time. Then i went back a year later to see all the places i'd missed.

You must be able to speak a few languages but. I can only speak English and German. I got by when i was italy cos i learnt italian in highschool for two years. I was supposed to be taking spanish this year at university but it didn't work out with my time table... I was very sad about that.

I LOOOOOVE CALVIN AND HOBBES. Nothing compares. No-thing.
OK, so they didn't teach me a complete different language or anything, but oh boy do I love that duo or wot. When all the other girls were experimenting with makeup and what-not, back in sixth grade, I would borrow home every single C&H comic I could get my hands on and just laugh my ass off.. I still do. In fact, we've got a study group kind of thing going on at the moment because of math exams this Friday, and today, while everyone was busy trying to figure out math and shit, I sat in the corner with a Calvin and Hobbes comic and tried not to laugh out loud and break everyone's concentration. Of course I failed at doing just that, big time.
... Special is the perfect word. :)

Aw man, I've never been anywhere worth mentioning. You travel a lot? And fuck, you know German? That's insane. I don't, though, I preferred French to that in school.

I LOOOOOVE CALVIN AND HOBBES. Nothing compares. No-thing.
OK, so they didn't teach me a complete different language or anything, but oh boy do I love that duo or wot. When all the other girls were experimenting with makeup and what-not, back in sixth grade, I would borrow home every single C&H comic I could get my hands on and just laugh my ass off.. I still do. In fact, we've got a study group kind of thing going on at the moment because of math exams this Friday, and today, while everyone was busy trying to figure out math and shit, I sat in the corner with a Calvin and Hobbes comic and tried not to laugh and break everyone's concentration. Of course I failed at doing just that, big time.
... Special is the perfect word. :)

Aw man, I've never been anywhere worth mentioning. You travel a lot? And fuck, you know German? That's insane. I don't, though, I preferred French to that in school.

I LOOOOOVE CALVIN AND HOBBES. Nothing compares. No-thing.
OK, so they didn't teach me a complete different language or anything, but oh boy do I love that duo or wot. When all the other girls were experimenting with makeup back in sixth grade, I would borrow home every single C&H comic I could get my hand on and just laugh my ass off.. I still do. In fact, we've got a study group kind of thing going on at the moment because of math exams this Friday, and today, while everyone was busy trying to figure out math and shit, I sat in the corner with a Calvin and Hobbes comic and tried not to laugh and break everyone's concentration. Of course I failed at doing just that, big time.
... Special is the perfect word. :)

Aw man, I've never been anywhere worth mentioning. You travel a lot? And fuck, you know German? That's insane. I don't, though, I preferred French to that in school.

the calvin and hobbes comics are very special to me.
Ever been to switzerland? i lived there for a while and they have this daily little newspaper thing that they give out for free. it was a crap newspaper but it was free.

calvin and hobbes was in the comic section. every day i would read it/translate it. calvin and hobbes basically taught me German. Plus, it's one of the funniest comics i've ever read.

Yap, that's Calvin speaking Danish! He says something like: "Who was the first person to look at a cow and go, I wonder what comes out when I squeeze these?"
You know, Calvin's name is Steen in Danish. And Steen means rock, or more specific: stone. Hobbes is called Stoffer, and that (even better) means DRUGS! Haha.

I know a Whitlams song not so many people know of! I've begun to think I joined MTC for a reason..

is that calvin?!?!?!

oh well, he's still damn cute.

well, no. they're pretty well known, but only their recent music. The first two CDs aren't well known at all. YOU ARE SPECIAL!

(And about my latest mix: it's NOT ME, that boy with the headphones. I kind of found him on google image search).

Fuck, mayn.. I feel very special right now!! No shit.
- Are they really that no-name?

That's bizarre! That is totally blowing my mind at the moment.

I don't like the hamburgers song. No aphrodisaic is ok. That's off a more recent album which i hate. Where is she? is just splendid though. It's off their first album and i just love it.

I still can't get over how weird that is. Very few people know that song

But I know a few tracks by the Whitlams too! It was very random though. One day I felt like searching for songs with 'hamburger' in its title, and that's how I found my first Whitlams-song. Then I downloaded "No Aphrodisiac" - LOVE IT, btw. - and "Where Is She?". Haha.

Well there you go. That's awesome that you've heard a bit of Goyte. Did you like it? I'm not the greatest fan but i really love a few of his songs.

I'd be very surprised though if you had heard the whitlams track. They are reasonably big in australia, but i only like their first 2 CDs from early 90s and no one really knows their early work.

It's not the Mountains? Ah, shoot... Well, now I know where to go next when I've been to Australia and seen the Blue Mountains.

Too bad with sendspace. I've heard it's a very popular way to send your kickass mixtapes to others.

I do. I wasn't aware that they were Australian, but I listened to some music at a friend's place once, and I remember that we listened to some tracks off an album called Like Drawing Blood (I remember looking her iTunes library through (or, mainly just the Playing Now list)). I can definitely recall the track Hearts a mess. For serious.

It's not the Mountains? Ah, shoot... Well, now I know where to go when I've been to Australia and seen the Blue Mountains.

Too bad with sendspace. I've heard it's a very popular way to send your kickass mixtapes to others.

I do. I wasn't aware that they were Australian, but I listened to some music at a friend's place once, and I remember that we listened to some tracks off an album called Like Drawing Blood (I remember looking her iTunes library through (or, mainly just the Playing Now list)). I can definitely recall the track Hearts a mess. For serious.

ok i so i clicked on more pictures (usually when you put pictures up it shows up on the right hand side of your proile below the rating bar - that's where i was looking for the pic)

sorry the mountains in the picture certainly are blue, but unfortunately they're not THE blue mountains. They look like the alps to me. The Blue Mountains are more like hills compared to those mountains.

Thanks for the lovely comments on my mixes. I don't know how to sendspace either. sorry.

Do you really know every song? Even the australian ones? eg. The Whitlams, Goyte

You sure? When you click on 'more pictures', it doesn't show a super blue shot of the mountains? Oh well... I haven't got the hang on all these MTC features after all...

But for real! I look forward to see them, for myself. ^^