wooster wrote:Thanks! And I forgot about this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILuV6gSpeMA <-- (Wind Along the Coast - it's a fun, little animation about a very windy day on the beach, with lots of flying fish / birds & wind-blown animals. It's cute.)
Well, there wasn't much going on in it, except that all the creatures get blown around by the wind - some bump into houses, but no harm to them at all (only to the walls). At the end the girl walks home with her bucket and spade. Sorry for not writing more of it before posting the link! This one is about a red-haired girl waiting for a train, then a big rain comes (which is good, as it's very dry there) then she has to hurry home because she's afraid her house gets flooded (it doesn't, though). Then when the train passes, she gets a blue flower and a friend. The music is nice too, violins & piano:DisinegratedHemlock wrote:wooster wrote:I just couldn't tell everything that was going on with one of the creatures when I lost my focus for a few seconds and didn't know if I wanted to find out exactly what was going on, cause I couldn't tell everything due to the angling and few seconds of losing focus.
Well, I'm going to go off-topic again - in the past few months it tends to happen to me too, at an alarming rate. Like, I go to the woods (well, it's more like a huge old overgrown park-land with a few acres of forest in it, lake & etc.) - which i know better than even my own house, yet after slipping out of focus ever-so-slightly for a second, I'm lost spatially and time-wise. (I think they have a word for it: 'jamais-vu'?) Can be a bit disconcerting in retrospect.DisinegratedHemlock wrote:wooster wrote: I lost my focus for a few seconds and didn't know if I wanted to find out exactly what was going on, cause I couldn't tell everything due to the angling and few seconds of losing focus.
wooster wrote:Well, I'm going to go off-topic again - in the past few months it tends to happen to me too, at an alarming rate. Like, I go to the woods (well, it's more like a huge old overgrown park-land with a few acres of forest in it, lake & etc.) - which i know better than even my own house, yet after slipping out of focus ever-so-slightly for a second, I'm lost spatially and time-wise. (I think they have a word for it: 'jamais-vous'?) Can be a bit disconcerting in retrospect.DisinegratedHemlock wrote:wooster wrote: I lost my focus for a few seconds and didn't know if I wanted to find out exactly what was going on, cause I couldn't tell everything due to the angling and few seconds of losing focus.
NOT THE BUGS!!!! I can't stand bugs! It's a lifelong phobia, I get freaked out by most insects. Except wasps perhaps, on some reason I'm okay with them. I mean I'm okay with looking at insects outside, but I freak out whenever they come into my room, esp. those big hairy moths. Snakes I like, and all reptiles & amphibians too (frogs etc.) - lizards are my favourites, esp. the little green or brown ones you find on sunlit stones. Fish too.DisinegratedHemlock wrote:Exploring places can be fun. I like finding many sorts of places through exploring. I just don't like having to come across all the bugs and sometimes I come across snakes. A lot of the times I can't even tell if they're real or not because of how they stay so still at times like they aren't real. I do like coming across types of fish though, before I saw some type of creature abruptly just splash outta the water then it splashed right back into the water, maybe it was some sort of fish. I also come across deer at times. There were times where when taking a walk though I ended up in the rurals. Through taking walks though I ended up in many different sorts of places. It can get really fun at times. I just got lost a number of times. There are certain ways I heard of though to find your way back with a compass when you forget to keep track of steps. But I don't remember that well, it has to do with math. I usually never remember stuff about math.
wooster wrote:NOT THE BUGS!!!! I can't stand bugs! It's a lifelong phobia, I get freaked out by most insects. Except wasps perhaps, on some reason I'm okay with them. I mean I'm okay with looking at insects outside, but I freak out whenever they come into my room, esp. those big hairy moths. Snakes I like, and all reptiles & amphibians too (frogs etc.) - lizards are my favourites, esp. the little green or brown ones you find on sunlit stones. Fish too.DisinegratedHemlock wrote:Exploring places can be fun. I like finding many sorts of places through exploring. I just don't like having to come across all the bugs and sometimes I come across snakes. A lot of the times I can't even tell if they're real or not because of how they stay so still at times like they aren't real. I do like coming across types of fish though, before I saw some type of creature abruptly just splash outta the water then it splashed right back into the water, maybe it was some sort of fish. I also come across deer at times. There were times where when taking a walk though I ended up in the rurals. Through taking walks though I ended up in many different sorts of places. It can get really fun at times. I just got lost a number of times. There are certain ways I heard of though to find your way back with a compass when you forget to keep track of steps. But I don't remember that well, it has to do with math. I usually never remember stuff about math.
I never remember stuff about maths either (wish I would), nor ever really grasped the concept of using a compass - but I'm quite good at reading maps. I like maps.
Really old maps and atlases are very good, I can get lost in them forever.
I used to catch tadpoles when I was a child, every summer, in the pond - but they all died. I didn't know at the time that they won't survive in a big jar. I always hoped they'll grow into frogs but they never did. Caught baby-lizards too, but one got trampled over by a stupid visitor, that was horrible. In retrospect I think I spent most of my childhood trying to catch things (except insects) - snails were really boring though. Also with sneaking into every deserted building i could.DisinegratedHemlock wrote:Knowing how to use maps is good. I remember though when I was younger the people whom I was taking a walk with had no idea how to use a map so me and those people would get lost for such a long time. It was an adventure though, when the people who I am going to places with get lost I come across very interesting places. So, I don't mind. All though when I decided to take a walk all around throughout some path when I was like 10 and all alone that was pretty scary. When I reached the end of the path my gut feeling was telling me turn back and that I am going to get lost on the main road, so I turned back. I was going ballistic over and over again that day, I came across these really weird stuff in those woods, where the path was. When I lived in Rhode Island though me and my cousin would walk throughout the forest at times, that was fun, I liked looking at all the types of leaves around in that forest. Me and my cousin would also explore around someone's house which was always elaborately decorated and kinda in the forest. One time we accidentally broke the person's mirror out there even further though. That same person's house had something attached to his house with tadpoles so me and my cousin would look in the thingy attached to his house and watch the tadpoles. Sometimes, I wish I ventured more further throughout some of the forests of RI though. Then later when I moved me and my friend came across a forest which randomly had houses under construction and trailers, and horses and even goats. I remember me and my friend would go inside the houses under construction and explore. I came across some very interesting things that way it was fun.
wooster wrote:I used to catch tadpoles when I was a child, every summer, in the pond - but they all died. I didn't know at the time that they won't survive in a big jar. I always hoped they'll grow into frogs but they never did. Caught baby-lizards too, but one got trampled over by a stupid visitor, that was horrible. In retrospect I think I spent most of my childhood trying to catch things (except insects) - snails were really boring though. Also with sneaking into every deserted building i could.DisinegratedHemlock wrote:Knowing how to use maps is good. I remember though when I was younger the people whom I was taking a walk with had no idea how to use a map so me and those people would get lost for such a long time. It was an adventure though, when the people who I am going to places with get lost I come across very interesting places. So, I don't mind. All though when I decided to take a walk all around throughout some path when I was like 10 and all alone that was pretty scary. When I reached the end of the path my gut feeling was telling me turn back and that I am going to get lost on the main road, so I turned back. I was going ballistic over and over again that day, I came across these really weird stuff in those woods, where the path was. When I lived in Rhode Island though me and my cousin would walk throughout the forest at times, that was fun, I liked looking at all the types of leaves around in that forest. Me and my cousin would also explore around someone's house which was always elaborately decorated and kinda in the forest. One time we accidentally broke the person's mirror out there even further though. That same person's house had something attached to his house with tadpoles so me and my cousin would look in the thingy attached to his house and watch the tadpoles. Sometimes, I wish I ventured more further throughout some of the forests of RI though. Then later when I moved me and my friend came across a forest which randomly had houses under construction and trailers, and horses and even goats. I remember me and my friend would go inside the houses under construction and explore. I came across some very interesting things that way it was fun.
Maps - they are one of the very few things that make sense to me. Still each time I hope I'll end up otherwhere.
I saw your other post about the school-bus - sounds like a horrible situation, can you ask the driver to give you a totally different seat? Or if you always carry a small, pocket-sized book with you, with GOOD pictures in it... How's your school? I started school at the age of 7, I hated it so much that I have HUGE memory-gaps ever since. Tried to block out most of it.
A friend of mine went to Rhode Island last year - she was flabbergasted that even when you climb a hill to look around, it's woods upon woods upon woods you get to see. Big scale. we're not used to that in europe - it's so small.
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