Yay school!

School is finally starting, I'm not sure of my new room mate as of yet, the dorm is nice though. I have been somewhat Anti-social thus far, but classes starting tomorrow, I will be forced to socialize somewhat. :P My esperanto is getting there, though random stuff keeps preventing me to double up lessons... :( Never the less, I am writing some simple poems and storys right now, once these get to a level past a... four year old, I may start to post them. On second thought, 6 is my goal. :D

Religion and Music

I had an argument with my mother today, twas not the most pleasant, she desires me to go through the full catholic rites, Confirmation, because I went through baptism and first communion. Her idea was that it provides a basis to come back on, which made no sense to me, seeing as how I don't believe in the church's thoughts, nor do I worship Jehovah/Yahweh. Also, it seems somewhat against the whole point of the matter to undergo such rights and initiations when you don't believe in any of it, and for that matter, a religion that requires you to do such in order to not be punished forever after this existence, I could never follow, and would instead willfully undertake the side of its' foes and march upon its' gates (in this case that would work out as marching upon gates of heaven with the host of Lucifer.)

I felt that I should not explain my actual thoughts on religion, because she would have defiantly been furious to learn that her son is a heathen, though I have talked about it before... So this proves that she does not listen to what I say, and tones me out. Nice for a single parent to do that to her only child. :( I guess though, she does have some bearings to be mad, as I don't worship her gods, in one book there was a quote with the effect of "One should worship the gods of his fathers (mother here)" being said by an African tribesman whose son had converted to Christianity.

In Other news, I have been finding allot of Soviet Metal bands, Железный поток, Ария, and МАСТЕР being the most plentiful in terms of acquisitions. They are quite good, and I can piece together a fair amount of the Lyrics, (though often they are in English too...) though I'm not a fan of singing as such, and disregard the lyrics to most music anyways. In allot of metal, like the band Living Death, the vocals are dreadful, and thus I have learned to drown them out mentally, so that I can enjoy just the music, (though the vocal line its' self is sometimes payed attention to.)

I've not given up... (day 8)

I've just been a bit lazy and have not updated... I have; however been doing the lessons, and am currently at lesson 8 and will do nine on the marrow. Thus far... The accusative -n is somewhat annoying as I'm not used to cases... My vocabulary is about 130 words thus far, which is not bad, not amazing either, but tis a system... I recently discovered that there is an Esperanto association quite close by, though I won't be contacting or such until I have reached a level of competence. (or familiarity...)

Day One (and two, too)

Last night I started, going through the orthography, and I had a little problem figuring out why certain diphthongs were labeled as such, as they seemed to just be those two letters pronounced separately, then I realized that I was using the English y when ever a j occurred, thus Kaj being pronounced "Kai" seemed obvious... I did that around two am, and because I had to be up at dawn, I went to bed right after.

The next night, I begun lesson two, which started with some 24 words, and very simple sentences to read, and then English ones to translate. By this point, I was already able to read the Esperanto without thinking, sound wise, not meaning... One random thing though, violo, a violet, is a very odd word to learn now, especially as I had to do a google search to see what a violet was... (At first I thought it was violet, as in purple, though looking at the ending again, I realized my flaw...)

Esperanto - The 50 day goal

I will soon be starting about a lesson a day (or more) on Esperanto, using Ivy Kellerman's Grammar.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7787

Now, it has 60 lessons, but I will be going through the early parts more quickly, as well as some days when I have allot of time, which will allow me to cut 10 days, so I will complete the last lesson on my birthday, October 2nd.

I understand ALLOT more Russian then I thought I did...

I'm talking to a friend on Skype, but we get to a point where she isn't sure how to say it in English. So I say, "Maybe I will be able to peace the russian together slowly?" She writes out...

Просто я думаю, что когда я думаю о муже и детях, я скорее думаю о себе, нежели о других людях
Which I translated to...
Simply, I think that when I think about the husband and children, it is not that I think about the idea of them, rather than about the people them selves.

And now... I think that is quite a bit more advanced then what I thought I could do. :P Now... If I get the skills to write that my self, yay! :P

Spice and Wolf & Omegle

I've never been an Otaku or anything, although I have liked some animes here and there: Black Lagoon, Elfin Lied, Akira, Samuri X, Paprika, Cowboy Bebop, Vampire Knight, School Days, and others which I cannot recall... anyway, Spice and Wolf. Quite awesome, it is about a traveling merchant in a world based on Renasounce Europe. :) Even though I'm a sucked for such fasion:




The story it's self is perfect. Another anime I have been watching of late, East of Eden. It's coming out with an episode per week, which is somewhat anoying as everything else I've seen has been done, or new stuff isn't out in forever. :P

Peoples

I found this site, http://omegle.com/ which is a random chat, you go to it, and it directs you to random peoples. I found some good people to talk to, and many... not so much. :/ One of the people that I met via Omegle, was talking to me about various TV shows:



and the episode on which it was based:



And yeah... :) Good stuff that I would not have learned about other wise.

Surf Nazis must Die!

I've been watching quite a few movies lately, none of the shit that comes out these days though. The good stuff:
Murder By Death
Some kind of Wonderful
Commando
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Blood Sport
Dolemite
and so on...

In other news....
I have been studying German for two days now.
I know simple stuff in the vein of...
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Ja, ich spreche Deutsch. Sprechen Sie Englisch?
Nein, ich spreche kein Englisch. Kommen Sie Amerika?
Ja, ich komme aus Amerika. Arbeiten Sie als der Fremdenführerin?
Ja, ich arbeiten als der Drendenfüherin.
Some random sentences that don't work into a low quality dialogue:
Ist das der Bahnhof?
Nein, ist nicht der Bahnhof.
Ist die Botschaft heir rects?
No, Botschaft ist hier links.
*If any of this is wrong, I would appreciate corrections. Tis out of my memory.

I have been using the FSI courses at http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/
as well as http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/BLL_German/A1
The later will be finished by tomorrow, tis small and simple, but has helped, and the FSI is the true course, the later being a quick primer and the former being the main course. I also have a Grammar, http://www.routledge.com/books/Modern-German-Grammar-isbn9780415272995 though I can assure you I payed but 2.5% for the tome. In addition, I'm searching for other things to help me, though the basics are most important, constructing basic sentances, asking questions to people and such...

I have also been working on Russian for a while longer, with pronounciation being my biggest problem, on the first day I thought, ah good, I can now read Cryllic, pronouncing it... not well, but what I think to be good, it shall get better with time. I then went on to learn a few basic things, cases and such, staying there, making sure no mistakes are made, or at least very few. A bit later however, I realized that I skipped a pair of pages in the grammar, which contained diffrences in pronunciation depending on lettering pairs... I've thus been perfecting this, so I do not make any mistakes that will be hard to change later on.

Society...
It has been anoying me as of late, the shallowness of most relationships, the lack of truth within people's statements and so on. I've been looking for some new friends now that I am back home from school, and have lost contact with all but one, and a few old band mates. As it would apear though, I am not sure how to meet people with out being forced to be with them for some reason (though bands are not quite forced upon you....) I'm thinking of taking some sort of class, most likely somesort of skill, arc-wielding seems quite funny for a teenager to learn... I have been talking to some random people online though, good... not times but... E-Times...? have been had, and I wish that I knew them in person.

With this first posrt, I bid thee a fairwell.