Quadrilingualism Challenge

So, I like languages. I'm not sure if it's a passion, but I do enjoy learning it, speaking it, confusing people with it and meeting people who actually speak it! But now that I'm out of Secondary school and moving onto a degree, one that may not necessarily be Spanish >_< well, hopefully, a minor at least, it's going to be tough to keep up with it, or even learn new ones. Partly because I'd be focused on other studies, and mainly because, I just wouldn't be focused on studying it, out of a classroom setting. So I'm bringing the classroom to home! 


I like 7 and 30 Day Challenges, But I guess, until the end of August? Or maybe till i start University(hopefully) oh gosh, * hyperventilates and panics at the thought that I may not get in D: * But no sooner than August is over, shall i complete this challenge :D Basically, I'm going to try learning 3 foreign languages simultaneously;i.e completing the same lessons such as Basic Greetings, grammar rules, descriptions, travel etc, each on the same day. And considering English is my first language, it will count as 4 in the end, thus making me a quadrilinguist, or polyglot. But, in addition to those, I'm going to widen my vocabulary. For now, I'll start with 5 new words per day, that I shall use in my day to day speech as practice, and just for the fun of it, attempt to learn and remember those same 5 new words, in each of the three foreign languages :D 
I can imagine some people saying, 'for the fun of it? what part of that sounds fun to you? o.O' lol but I like the challenge ^_^ 
And this is definitely going to be a challenge, considering I may be involved in other activities, whole day ones, that would greatly infringe on the time needed to study, but the important thing is that I try! 


Oh, and lastly, the foreign languages shall be:
Spanish
Already fluent in that, but CAPE really messed up my ability to learn basic stuff, it packed my brain with advanced topics like Global warming, tourism, globalization and technology, and got rid of the basic 'Hola' lol Ok I keed I keed hehe but I want to take my time and really develop my skills in it through continuous practice, soooo ya.


French
Did French up to form 3 in Secondary school, was never excellent at it,just average, but I blame that entirely on myself because I didn't focus or study it as often as I should've, but once I did, I was awesome at it! Too bad I dropped it like a breadfruit after that, lol 


And the last language, I'm gonna need suggestions. I was thinking Portugese, but ughhhhh it's so close to Spanish, well relatively, and I don't think I want to become incredibly fluent in that, or maybe, not yet. 
But I'm also thinking Mandarin, apparently more people in the world speak Mandarin than they do English :O 
And also Russian, considering it is one of the 6 Official Languages of the United Nations. That way, I'd know 4 of them, but If I do both Mandarin and Russian I'd know 5 :O I SHOULD LEARN 5 LANGUAGES!!! lol xD 
In case anyone was wondering, the last official one is Arabic.


5 Languages, hmmm *strokes imaginary beard* Quintilinguistic Lifa. I shall think about it. So Portugese, Mandarin or Russian? I shall ponder ^_^

So till tomorrow please God! 
See you later
Hasta Luego
A plus tard
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...Just looked up how to say see you later in Russian and Mandarin and my expression is o.O What are those things! lol
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That is all [Exeunt] ^_^

Please Listen

When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what I asked.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why
I shouldn’t feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.

When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something
to solve my problem,
you have failed me,
strange as that may seem.

Listen! All I ask is that you listen.
Don’t talk or do – just hear me.

Advice is cheap; 20 cents will get
you both Dear Abby and Billy Graham
in the same newspaper.
And I can do for myself; I am not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering,
but not helpless.

When you do something for me that I can
and need to do for myself,
you contribute to my fear and
inadequacy.

But when you accept as a simple fact
that I feel what I feel,
no matter how irrational,
then I can stop trying to convince
you and get about this business
of understanding what’s behind
this irrational feeling.

And when that’s clear, the answers are
obvious and I don’t need advice.
Irrational feelings make sense when
we understand what’s behind them.

Perhaps that’s why prayer works, sometimes,
for some people – because God is mute,
and he doesn’t give advice or try
to fix things.
God just listens and lets you work
it out for yourself.

So please listen, and just hear me.
And if you want to talk, wait a minute
for your turn – and I will listen to you. 

~Author Unknown~

Read this in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, and loved it. Such a sad reality that people can't do such a task as listening alone.They think they understand the meaning of the word, but it's far deeper than just 'hearing', much more perplex than sharing your view.  Just LISTEN. It sounds easy, simple, but yet, we still find a way to add to it, and take away from it. I don't need your advice, I just need you to listen. 

Challenge Update and Trip to the Dentist!

I'm so lazy :| gosh that's gotta stop! >.< 

Ok so my challenge finished since Saturday, and well it was successful ^_^ Ate meat the Saturday though, but success nonetheless :D I must say, going to bed early...er, is relatively tough but very rewarding! Bed between 11-12, NO LATER! and up by 8, you get a lot more out of the day! 

One thing is for sure, I missed meat!  and fried fish :D :D Don't think I'd be doing a vegan challenge anytime soon again.

Today, I went to the dentist! ^_^ His name is Mr. Agbontaen  [Ag-bun-tine] and he's from Nigeria! WE go way back(meaning he's been my dentist since I was like 11?] He's pretty cool too, I can guarantee I'd always smile when I'm there. He always changes my surname :s Lifa Marawaski! Princess Lifa, the best surgeon in the Caribbean! Lifa (Insert List of other cool African Names and Royalty here) lol ^_^ 

Today was kinda weird though, he came late and didn't react all smiley, and was somewhat forgetful. I guess something was bothering him :/ Either way, as soon as he changed my surname my heart smiled, LOL silly, but simple enough to make an impact. And according to him, I'm 'best patient' lol 

One thing for sure, there is NOOOO face uglier, than the one you have when a dentist is operating in your mouth o.O Thank Goodness I can't see it! lol And gosh that suction straw the assistant has in your mouth, today she really shoved it! But I wouldn't have noticed much to be suctioned anyways because half of my lower face was NUMB! 

Mocaine tastes weird :/

Injections hurt :( 

Literally felt the liquid going through the flesh surrounding my mandible during the injection D: 

Nigerians are cool :D 

Drilled tooth smells like a burning mosquito :/

The blue light they put in your mouth, idk what it is, but it requires eye protection, makes your mouth feel realllllyyyy funny! In a weird way funny, and kinda hurt my head, I wonder what it does :/ 

I LOVEEEEE gettin my teeth polished! ^_^ it's like a massage in your mouth ^_^ 

Fluoride treatment was apple flavored, delish! ^_^ 

My dentist gave me a toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss! :D 

Okies, I think that's it with my Dentist trip soliloquy! 

Get checked up! every 6 months peeps :D 

and SMILEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE whilst you still have the teeth to do it :D 

Not sure what this challenge is, Challenge

Unknowing to me, tomorrow please God is the first of July O_O And there I was writing in work, 'call back on Monday 1st' haha faillll. I rarely ever know what day it is though :/ But that's not the point. Otherwise, it's great that it is, because I always like to start challenges on the 1st of a month ^_^ 


So I've postponed this for awhile now, tried it, probably lasted one day, meat was just so overwhelmingly delicious! This is originally meant to be a 'Vegetarian' Challenge. So no meat, just the good ole veggies and stuff. But I think I need to easeeee my way into that, and so it's a 'Semi-Vegetarian' Challenge. And the reason for that is primarily because, I really like cheese lol and Ryvita #Addicted >.< plus I need milk, and well, fish is awesome :/ okies, so basically it's like this.
No Chicken
No Beef
No other type of meat except fish
Some animal products such as eggs(haven't had eggs in months :O ) and milk :D 
The veggies I shall try to consume as raw as possible! 
And the fish shall not be cooked with any sort of oil. 


So I guess it's more of a health challenge? hmmm
Then I figured why not add a new spin to it, and have a 'Go to Bed at a Reasonable Hour and Not Spend the Entire Night Watching How I Met Your Mother or Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars or Any Other Sitcom That I Have on My Watch Sitcoms All Vacation List Plus Wake up Earlier Whilst Being a Semi- Vegetarian Challenge' ^_^ 

Watched Gossip Girl from 11:30- now today :| And basically finished 4 seasons of HIMYM already, would've finished a month ago o.O ^_^ 
And well, I sleep pretty late.really early and that's probably not a good thing unless I plan to work Night Jobs in the future :| 
So this should be interesting, and rewarding I hope :) 
So here's to hoping for success for the next 7 days ^_^ 

Soooooo I Got Robbed.

Well the title pretty much explains it all. So I'm not really sure where to go from here, thoughts so scattered :/

I always wonder and marvel at little changes, big ones too, but the little ones in particular. Like how, taking one taxi instead of the other just seconds away, could be the difference between life and death. Or how, staying back at home 2 minutes longer, or forgetting something and having to go back for it, could be the determinant of whether or not you may notice something, find something, understand something. And lastly, the impact. The impact the littlest things could have on you. Like seeing someone with a certain hairstyle, and your mind goes on into how awesome it may be, how confident they may be, then somehow reach to the point where it eats at your insecurities, makes you wonder why you can't be that yourself, bold and brave, and from then you make the decision to be better, become like this person who might as well be a figment of your imagination as for only a second you glimpsed then, or to wallow in self pity and regret, remorse for everything you've done and haven't done, inevitably leading to a downward spiral. How? from seeing someone's hairstyle? The little things. 

Quite frankly I'm not sure how I feel about this all yet, it fluctuates. No one really knows EXACTLY how they're respond in dangerous situations. Your conscious mind fathers information from your senses, daily experiences, impacting directly on your subconscious, or inner conscious level, causing you to think certain ways, and react different ways. It's sorta like a computer, storing all that information, making you either function smoothly, malfunction in certain areas, or even crash when these inner thoughts are brought to a conscious level. Point is, lol, who really knows EXACTLY what they'd do. 

So here I was, walking home, only to be attacked from behind by two guys. Now you see two guys coming behind you, maybe you get suspicious, but had I looked back, I wouldn't have. Why? Because I know one of them, literally from younger days, went to my primary school, coming to my house to pick five-finger off my tree, all ah dat! So in the actual robbery, I sat on the floor thinking, whilst still strugglin with my bag and them, really? you? you're one of the guys robbing me? REALLY? and then of course, oh no, my money, my bb,my ipod and the stuff I just bought for my graduation in like 2 hours! But, I let go the bag. I didn't know if they had a weapon, and quite frankly I didn't want to find out. Strangely, there was this little boy, no more than 11, just there, on a bike, watching. And when they decided they can't find my phone let's just snatch the bag and go,the little boy rides up to me and says 'Family, what happen?' Really? -_- So tiredly, I ran to the main street to see if anyone was in the road and could have stopped them, saw a neighbor and he called after them, but how much does that really do? Nonetheless, it was appreciated. So, in the blink of an eye, I lost pretty valuable things, think my ring got slid off too..my graduation ring :/
Well, a lotttttttttt more ensued after the event!. It's so mind blowing the amount of things that transpired in the last 24 hours O_O 

But, I am quite honestly not in the frame of mind to discuss that just yet. But now, I'm even more thankful. Worse things could have happened, but it didn't and I thank the Lord for it all. Despite me losing those stuff, those guys lost even more and will continue to lose more. And I pray for them and for better.

P.S I had a blastttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt at my graduation regardless!! I didn't care who bothered that I danced and skipped around with my friends allllllll night, I had just the right to be there, as anyone else, and I live for not a single one of them. But thank God for great friends to share it with! Shar, Lileh, Ma g Nadz, Kankan, Bridge, Pearly, Kimi times 2 and of course, my darling brother Damian :) I love you guys! ^_^ 

WHAT I HATE ABOUT CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year. I can't dispute that there's a greater sense of joy around this time, hearing parang music on the radio...wait thats all that excites me? wow -_-

Christmas is NOT an excuse to go bankrupt. Why on earth do I need new curtains? What is wrong with the ones from last 3, 4, 5 years?!?! And why must they be so damn fancy!?! -_- 

People go crazyyy buying things! Quite frankly, I'd paint my house in August if I can, Christmas time pretty much would just equal- free time to do it. 

Prices DO NOT "go down" -_-. I checked a catalogue from Courts or Standards or whatever months ago, and compared the items on "sale" with those then...SAME PRICE!! In fact, this jus tmight be when prices hike up, because the demand for every single thing increases. I do NOT need to spend over 1000 dollars on groceries alone dammit! >.< 

Christmas is NOT an excuse to drink alcohol excessively!! It is NOT an excuse to go out and lime and "have a good time" dousing down everything that comes your way. Sure fruit cake is great but geez, must you overdo the alcohol?

Who on earth is santa claus? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy do parents lie to their children. It's bribery, it's a lie and its damn foolish! it's also very idolatrous, seeing that children worship Santa's feet, hoping to get something for Christmas. And quite frankly, it's pretty eurocentric too, seeing that ya know, we don't have chimneys in the Caribbean -_- Santa u racist or summ? U discriminatory? *coas*

Quite likely, Jesus was NOT even born on December 25th and nowhere in the Bible do people really celebrate birthdays anyway, except for 3 occasions where bad things all happened (Google it, or read yo Bible yo) All in all, though I don't feel inclined to get in this "spirit" ie...EXCESS! I celebrate the fact that ONE man, Jesus Christ, loves me, and us all, sooooooooo much, that He'd die for me, to reconcile my relationship with God, paving the way for my eternity! :)

And what have we become, glutton, lazy and easily swayed? What is xmas? I thought the  Word was Christmas? I thought the reason for the season was CHRIST! WHO IS X??!?!? Did X come to save my life?

Sooooo, why not choose a time to celebrate this fact then- ie christmas season? uhm WHY NOT DO IT ALLLLLLLLLL THE TIME? Does the Lord say, wellllllllllll Imma help you today, Imma hear your prayer today, I'll comfort you and be there for you today, but tomorrow I rell cyah handle u nah, or next week neither, matter of fact, I'm booked through February, so whenever ah get de chance to help yuh ah go do it? uhh NO! So why, for this ONE time, do we get so focused on "THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT" 

What Spirit? hanging reindeer and excess lights outside my house does NOT make me feel the "spirit"

Having a tree up, does NOT make me feel the "spirit"

Drinking alcohol, liming, paranging does NOT make me feel the "spirit" 

Cleaning and painting does NOT make me feel the spirit.

And quite frankly Im sick and TIRED or hearing ppl say "I doh feel the Christmas spirit" if yuh buying ting, eating ting, drinking ting, paranging and ting, then yuh in the spirit alright! But which one. 

I rather feel the Holy Spirit. I'd rather have a peaceful Christmas, than a loud, festive Christmas.

I rather have peace within myself for a lifetime, than spend one day in glutton excessive, pointless celebration to feel temporary happiness. Cuz guess what people..drink away your problems today, they are still there in the morning! 

I rather lend a helping hand to those in need, than sit back and wait for a bunch of gifts to be given to me. Naively before, Id wish for gifts. But the thing is, if the Lord doesn't do anything else for me, He's already done enough. And that's the greatest gift of all.

So have a blessed, holy Christmas. And perhaps, before going outside to galavant and play, take some more time to pray. Always remember the reason, not just for a season, for always. 

*deep breath* 

Random Thoughts of a Random Girl 2

We gonna hunt you down, *does two finger gun salute dance* o.O
Eff what you said, it dont mean sh*t now! Eff your presence mite as well be a cow
Take a drink ah this, take a drink ah dat, oh yes trini Christmas is the bestttttt *rows hands like a boat* Ah-Yee!!! xD
You my friend, is ah bake, ah dry up old bake!
I WANNA GO TO CUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :(
If I was a rich girl, nah nah nah nh nah nuh nah nuh nah nah nahhhh *mumbles incoherently*
Vinegar. OMG what a racist word! :O lol 
Shake that bootayyy, turn it aroundddddd. 
Some likkle children ANNOYING! geeezz ann, why yuh touch meh dictionary eh? steups like yuh buy that, gosh was I that annoying?
Cant be, I was quiet :D and shyyyyyyyyyy :D 
Tryna figure out what happened..I rel cyah do them primary school math questions if yuh ask me now nuh, LOL ok prob some :P
mehhhhhhhhh, neighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *kicks hooves* LOL 
When you are feeling a little low, oh oh oh, itching and ah scratching
Rastaman vibrations yeaaa, POSITIVE xD Big tune
Yuh doh haffi dread to be rastaaa, no haffi dread *sways* 
I can isolate mah body 8-) Drama ftw!
What the hell is all this encryption on the page! Go away!
I DONT WANNA GROW OLDERRRRRRRRR YET! MAKE IT STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP :( 
I rel want dumbells tho and ah yoga mat! >.>
Santa can you hear me?!?!?! I have been so good this year, LOL Santa wey yuh gonna come thru, meh window? what kinda stalker gully creeping behavious is that? steups. lol We doh meddle in tha milk nd cookies ting neither! 8-)
I like to scrape the vanilla out of the oreo and eat the biscuit alone, does that mean Im racist? o.O
WHATS GREEN AND SEE THRU?!?! ..... THIS LETTUCE RIGHT HERE, HAHAHAHA *dies* haha
I REAL WANT AH PACK SOUP THO! steupssssssssssssss. 
You think I weird? wait who exactly am I talking to, swear I does talk to myself nuh, and real answer back too wth! Steups girl you crazy, yea kinda, hehehe Not really tho, meh yes really, gosh boi juhhhhh. 
I want ah spanish mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, to marry me, oh gosh yes parang sweet *dances*
Enrique Iglesias :D  ay yuh know daddy yankee songs kinda cool. lol
I pity you insecure people, I mean we all have em, but channel em positively, accept yourself. You're only hurting others and yourself further by lashing out on people!
TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK! lol de chairs fall off de back ah de truck yes, LOL
Tales of mere existence. Im on a goat o.O If hI really were, that goat would prob hate me :/ 
gah
Lappy why did you crash? :( Work! :( 
Remordimientos reunan como viejos amigos, aqu para remorar sus momentos mas oscuros :( 
I wah see breaking dawn tho! I shud finish read them book, mehhh get fed up in the third book. mehhh. 
Swag out the world SOLAR, Im so cold POLAR! burrr, lol *insert washing machine here* xDDDDD 
School does be level heights sometimes inno, lol 
But wait nah, ah pack soup still eh come yet, nah somebody gonna get bitten >.> 
Rel cyah believe my moms eat out de pootigal before I could come get it >.>
RAS HOBO! LOL excuse me sir do you know that the last 4 digits of your number spells hobo? aahahhahahaha 
ah find these mosquites rel boldface tho. 
Mellow vybez now
I would like to visit the moon, on a rocket ship high in the air...