Hi everyone! Welcome on my channel. My name is Charlotte
Today, I'm super happy that you joined me for my one year Youtube anniversary video.
I decided that for this video, I would let you ask me questions:
things that you want to know about me or my channel.
Let's go ahead and maybe we should start with easier questions first
and then towards the end the harder ones to answer? What do you think?
Have you noticed my new background by the way? It looks fancy right?
Probably I can't fool you... This is just a fake background.
I'm using a green screen behind me and I can change it to whatever I want.
Impressive right? I'm really proud of myself for learning this
but I know I still have a lot to learn.
I had a really fun idea!
What if you choose a background for me... maybe a picture that you made?
You can send it to this email address ~ and then I might use it in a future video as my background.
It has to be high quality though and maybe it's better if the background has a lot of light?
Because there's a lot of light on my face as well so it kind of has to fit together.
Anyway, let's just try it.
If you have a fun photo or a nice background picture that you want to send me,
send it to this email address and then I might use it as a background in a future video.
Let's do that!
First question: "How old are you?".
Can you guess?
I'm 27. I became 27 in september. I don't know if I look older or younger
I do have some wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling a lot in life... XD
I think wrinkles - especially if it's like laughing wrinkles - are perfectly fine to have so
don't worry about your wrinkles.
"How tall are you?"
I'm one meter and 72 centimeters. It's quite average in my family.
What I love in my family is that we're three sisters
I'm the eldest one and I stayed tallest.
Second one is the second tallest and the youngest sister is the smallest
I really like that we stayed in the right order
"What's your sign?"
If this is a star sign I'm a Virgo. But I don't really believe in star signs.
They could be true but I just don't pay attention to it.
So what do you think? Do I fit the characteristics of a Virgo?
If you're talking about zodiac sign, I'm the year of the rooster
just like my brother, because we're 12 years apart actually so we're both roosters in our family.
"What's the most beautiful city in Belgium?".
That's a hard one because the most famous city is probably Bruges.
It's so so so beautiful but it's also very touristic.
If I could choose my favorite most beautiful city it would be Ghent.
I think it kind of resembles Bruges but it has less tourists.
I really recommend you to go there.
"Can you introduce yourself in French?"
Yes I can!
Hello, my name is Charlotte.
I'm 27 years old and I live in Belgium.
I love to travel.
I lived in India, I have studied in South Korea and finally I lived in Taiwan for 6 months.
I loved it!
Someone asks: "Occasionally, I see your dog in the video. Can you introduce your dog to us?".
Of course I can! If he wants... because he has his will of his own. Nessie ~
Are you coming? Come here ~
He jumped!
This is Nessie, we don't know his exact age because we got him from a shelter.
We know that he was found roaming next to a road.
We don't know his breed. He looks like a mix but...
Maybe there's some Jack Russell in there? But his hair is more smooth and his paws are much longer.
My whole family was immediately sold!
He's really funny because he's always making a very sad face.
He has this little black hairs here that make his expression really sad, so it's quite funny
He's very scared of all other dogs especially small dogs.
Eline's dog is smaller than my dog but my dog is super scared of Eline's dog. It's quite funny.
This is Nessie. Say hello ~ hello ~
Bye bye ~ Bye Nessie
This was a question by my Patreon member who wants to know some more about my Belgian life.
The question was: "What's your job?"
I work in a school. It's a practical school and I'm some kind of student coach.
I especially help students with their internships so if they're looking for an internship,
if they have all the paperwork that needs to be done between school internship and students,
I'm there for all those kind of stuff.
I also go to the internship place to visit students. I have to solve a lot of problems.
That's basically how you can describe my job. It's problem solving. Every day, new challenges.
I guess that's also one thing I like about my job.
No day is the same as the previous day
also the fact that if you can solve a problem and help students it's also very satisfying.
For now, I really like my job.
I got quite a few questions on my name. "Why Charmander?" "Why Charmless?"
Charmander (if you don't know this) is a Pokemon.
When I watched the series Pokemon I liked Charmander.
He was so sad and cute and it was a Pokemon waiting for his master to return,
but his master had abandoned him. He still didn't want to give up and was just waiting in the rain.
It was so sad. TT
Anyway, "Why Charmless?"
Good question... I guess "Charming" was already taken maybe?
I was looking for something with "Char" because that's also part of my name: "Charlotte".
I just thought it sounded nice together "Charmless" and "Charmander"
and also this image of this little Charmander sitting in the rain...
That's why. Is it weird that I'm calling myself after a Pokemon?
Oh and that was another question I got: "Do you have any other favorite pokemon?"
I really used to love one legendary Pokemon that was named "Lugia".
It was just so cool because Lugia can basically do everything: he can fly he can survive underwater
and he's huge and wide and wonderful
Lugia also has a very special skill of telecommunication,
so he could also speak every single Pokemon or human's language just by talking in their mind
I don't know why... As a child I was really impressed by Lugia.
"Why did you choose Taiwan to start your Youtuber career?"
First of all, thank you for calling me a Youtuber! I feel so important right now. XD
Actually, as I said before, I also lived in India and South Korea
and before going to South Korea especially, I remember that I used to watch many Youtubers
who were living there it was so fun for me to see their experiences
and I kind of could mentally prepare to go there. It was really nice.
But when I looked up information about Taiwan and especially foreigners living in Taiwan,
I couldn't find much on Youtube. So once I was in Taiwan and
I had been thinking about starting a Youtube even while i was in Korea actually
but in Taiwan I really felt like it would be really useful if there was more content about Taiwan
so more people can know about it
Also, if a foreigner wants to go to Taiwan they can prepare for it.
I don't know if you remember, but one of my very first videos was:
"How to find a room as a foreigner in Taipei"
I was so happy when I got comments on that video like people saying:
"I'm actually considering to study in Taipei or to move to Taipei and this video is really helpful!"
Wow, that was really such a big compliment to me.
I was so happy that I could help someone in the way that other Youtubers had helped me before.
I was very proud that I was able to help a little bit.
"Would you share your tips about makeup?"
I don't know if many people are interested about makeup in here
I think the most important thing is skincare.
Make sure that your skin is well hydrated during day and night and during the day even when it's cloudy,
I learned that you need to put on sun protection so your skin doesn't get damaged.
That's the most important thing. When I go to work I don't really put on makeup. Rarely.
Especially now, I'm just wearing the mask anyway so it would be useless.
But for my videos I use one Korean brand (Etude House) for my skin (a thin layer) and some Clinique lipstick
The other things: I have some mascara... I'm sorry but I don't know the brands. (it's Ici Paris and Innisfree!)
I would be horrible at making a makeup tutorial because I don't even know my own products... Sorry
"Which hair color do you prefer?"
In my life I colored my hair blonde, red and... that's it!
I also had my natural hair color, that's this dark kind of... it looks brown right?
But I started out as very blonde when I was a child
and I have many european friends who have the same.
When they're children they're very blonde, but when we grow older
our hair becomes more and more dark.
I don't know, I like to change from time to time. So what do you prefer?
Now the hairdressers in Belgium are all closed so I can't do anything anyway,
but what should I do next?
Now for the very last question I'm gonna tell you the answer to the question that was asked MOST.
Can you guess the question?
The question was: "When will you go back to Taiwan?"
and it's really hard to answer that honestly,
Because last time when I talked about this,
I was still believing that I would be going to Taiwan for Christmas (very soon)
but it's impossible, it's really impossible.
Imagine if I go to Taiwan, I have to quarantine for two weeks,
then, maybe enjoy myself for one week in Taiwan
and then come back and do another quarantine for two weeks.
I'm new at my job so I really can't afford that and right now I don't even really mind.
Of course I want to travel, but there's more important things than traveling, you know?
I know that Taiwan isn't going anywhere and will still be waiting for me
even though it will be a little bit later.
Right now I'm planning to go (if I can) for Easter holiday, I think that's around March or May.
So let's see. If it's possible, I want to go but otherwise I'll be patient.
That was it for this video today. I hope I answered enough of your questions.
You guys sent me so so many questions so I'm really thankful and if I didn't answer,
just hold on to your question and ask me next time again.
because I really had so many interesting questions and I definitely should do this another time!
If you came this far in the video,
I'm really thankful and we're gonna choose a password that you have to write in the comments
so I know that you watched until the end.
For this time, the password is: your favorite pokemon!
so whatever pokemon you like,
or even if it's just Pikachu because that's the only one everybody knows,
Write your favorite pokemon in the comments and that way I know you watched until the end
and all my love goes out to you!
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart as well for following me all this time,
following my adventure even outside of Taiwan.
I'm very grateful that everybody in the comments, in this little community is very kind and so welcoming.
I feel such a warm feeling with everyone here on this Youtube channel.
I'm very happy that this is some kind of safe and happy place
where everybody can share their love for Taiwan.
I'm just looking forward so much to go back to Taiwan whenever I can.
It feels great to know that you are also expecting me to go back and welcoming me so warmly.
I have no words for how grateful I am
that you have been supporting me through this whole one year adventure.
Thank you so so so so much and let's continue this adventure together. <3
See you very soon in the next video! bye ~
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