carmen

Hi! My name is Carmen, I am 22 and I was born on August 3rd in Arad, Romania. I am an Erasmus student here in Padua since last October. I study languages, English-Italian at my home university, in Timisoara and, of course, here too. I have always liked foreign languages and I am very used to them since in my country shows are in their original language. The most important thing I have to say regarding my language experiences is that watching TV played a decisive role. When I was little I loved watching cartoons on the Italian channels. Lots of Romanians used to watch Italian programs and most of them can still understand what Italians say. But, on the other hand, my older sister made me watch MTV when she was at home so I got to learn some English, too; and after a while I also started learning it in school so it stuck to me :) Then, when HBO started running, I watched movies most of the time and I found myself in class knowing words I had no idea I knew. Also, I must say, many of my friends don't have a clue about tenses and grammar and still, sometimes they speak English better than me. I forgot to mention... TV also taught me Spanish. I didn't know I knew how to speak until I came to Padua :) Going out with a lot of Spanish people I got not only to listen to Spanish, but also to speak it, and in a week I amazed myself how many words I remembered and understood. OH! And Japanese! I love Japanese! Unfortunately, there's no Japanese here, only in Venice and also, it is very difficult if you don't really commit yourself to learning and practice the new words, but also the old ones all the time. I guess I said enough about foreign languages (shows how much I like them) so, it's time to say something about my life... Being here in Padua made me realise that it is very difficult to find people who like the same things as you do... I miss my friends back home very much! But, I have to admit I have made one real, good friend here, although we have very little in common in terms of music and films (music and films, because these are my favourite hobbies). About my life in general... I don't exactly know just now what's going to happen, but I do know that I want to live in Romania. What I would really like is for my boyfriend (who's in the U.S.) to win the lottery :P My sister is also there with her boyfriend, working, and, unfortunately I haven't seen her in almost 2 years, but she's coming this November :D To wrap up this brief presentation, I guess the only thing I am sure of about my future is that I plan on taking a long trip with my boyfriend around the world, once I will have graduated. After that... who knows?...