PINAY FRANCOPHILE

From my Blogfriend, Jayred:

Your scrapbook-related entries here inspired me to organize my boxes of travel photos that date back to the late ”90s! My European trip photos are still boxed up somewhere — can you imagine that?

Hope to see some pics of your finished project someday.

Belated “Joyeux Noel,” Pinay New Yorker! And have a Blessed 2006. God bless.

Jayred, I take it from the comment above and your posts on your blogs that you are a sentimental soul like me.  Sometimes I keep mementos even if I don’t have any idea what I would want to do with it, and like you, I have photos stashed away that await albuming, and now, scrapbooking.

I have managed to do only one semi-scrapbook, and that was for our trip to Cancun, Mexico which was my honeymoon as well.  Alan’s actually been good putting pictures in albums, but he just puts them in there chronologically with no captions or themes, whatsoever.

Current projects include this Paris scrapbook, Angel’s first year, and my scrapbook on Angel and Lola Aida (my Mom), and definitely, a scrapbook is forthcoming on my trip home to Manila.

One thing that has inspired me is hoping to have Angel leaf through them one day, just as Alan’s been so thrilled to go through old albums they managed to save, and there’s only one of several left in our attic.  Seeing pictures of his Dad traveling the world has likewise inspired in him the desire to visit those places, too, that is why we have started writing postcards to Angel wherever Alan goes.

You really should start now before you go on any other trips.  Blogging and digital scrapbooking is a good way to keep track of one’s memories and immortalize them in words and pictures on the web, but if you’re as sentimental as I am, you know that it still doesn’t feel the same as actual papers and things you can hold in your hand.

For me, the only two things that I don’t mind remaining intangible are God and love.  Memories are better preserved with something to actually hold in your hand to bring the feeling back again.

Unfortunately, Pauline didn’t leave a URL or an e-mail, so I’m posting her comment here:

Hey !! I”m a french girl and I live in france that’’s why my english in”t very good !!
But I think you speak about Paris in your blog and I want to speak with English teenagers by the net because English is a very fantastic languauge !!
So could you give me address of blog or MSN to me for meet English trought internet please !!
thanks, I hope you have understood my message …
XXX

Pauline, your English is actually very good compared to most who are trying to learn it as a second language.  There are a lot of teeners who blog but a there are some who don’t do it in proper English.  There is, what we call SLANG, which is streetspeak — much like some of the rap you hear which abbreviates or shortens words.  Unfortunately, I have long left the Chat world so I have no handy chatrooms or groups to suggest. 

What I can suggest, though, is that you try to go into Yahoo and search for a teen group — there might be French teens wanting to learn English, and you can check their websites. Let me know how the search goes.. and next time, leave me a URL or e-mail so we can correspond privately.  Good luck with the English Lessons!  Merci!