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Hello world, where I'm from... Oh wait, no!
Hello world, this is what living rooms around the world are like
Alright Aiko, what's the first video?
First is Debora in Italy
And she likes playing with lightsabers
Well, not in the video
Hi, I'm Debora, and this is what an Italian living room is like
I think my living room has got a quiet Italian look because it has lots of wood
furniture and it's very simple and rustic
Lots of my living room furniture has been made by my father
like this structure right here
In our living room, we have quite a few pictures on the walls
There are also some African frogs
Their names are Armando, Giangianni, and Pigrizia
In winter we save money with this fireplace
and I think it's very useful for creating the atmosphere too
These are from Puglia and they are typical, local houses called Trulli
And last, but not least, this is a prize, a trophy
that I won last weekend in a natural lightsaber tournament
because I do a very uncommon sport called lightsaber combat
and we actually fight with a replication of lightsabers
So what's the next video?
Mae in Cambridge, in England
And what's your favourite part?
I love the tea part
Yep, I think this one's the cutest submission
Hello world, my name is Mae
Where I'm from in Cambridge, England this is what a living rooms is like
When visitors come, we bring them straight in there
Let's have a look
This, is a sofa
Most people in England have one... or maybe more
It's where we relax, watch films, and watch TV
When we have guests, we sit and drink tea
When we have lots of guests you could sit on this stool, like so
In England, we decorate with ornaments or photos
Mum didn't like ornaments so we mostly decorate with photos
This one is my favourite one because it reminds me of a holiday that I went with my Dad
In our house, we have curtains to cover the windows
but in some homes, they have blinds
There's only one light per room in England
And we are really lucky because we have French doors that open out into our garden
so we can play on sunny days outside
This is our dining table. This is where we eat, draw, and do our homework
Some people have a separate dining room, but mum turned ours into a study
We have three pets. Two hamsters that we keep down here called Hermione and Mary
and we also have a budgie called Sayuri
We let her out whenever we're in
Thank you for watching our video!
And the next video
Krystan and Thomas in Salt Lake City in the United States
Yep, and they really like their carpets and rugs
Hello, my name is Krystan
And my name is Thomas
And we are currently living in Draper, Utah, which is just outside of Salt Lake City
This one is an open floor plan concept, which means our living room is built
as the centre of our apartment
Then you have your kitchen, your bedroom, and your bathroom attached to it
Another thing that might be different than the apartments back by you guys
is that we have carpeted floors
And not only do we have carpeted floors
but we choose to use a rug to cover over our higher traffic areas
We also have a ceiling fan, which not all apartments have them
We didn't have them in our old apartments
We actually had to use lamps to help illuminate the whole room,
like the one in the corner behind the TV
And the next video
Avril in Marseille, France
Avril! It's April
Oh!
Yeah, and she's super vintage, she likes her old stuff
Yep
Hi, my name is Avril
I live in Marseille, in the south of France
and this is what my living room look like
My living room has no separation between living, dining, and working room
As a student I have a pretty big living room and I'm really happy about it
The principle element of a French living room is the couch
No couch, no living room
As you can see, I really like Star Wars and Pokemon
In France, we also like book shelves, and as you can see, I love books and comics
Another thing about old French apartments is that we have really, high ceilings
Really high!
We saw lots of videos around the world and some things stuck out to us
and one of them was...
Fireplaces!
And what about the fireplaces?
Well, almost every house, there are fireplaces
and they're like brick, or like cement, or lots of, like you know on top of TVs
You have a TV on top of it
Yeah, people like putting stuff on top of it
Greek houses that are for sale often have a fireplace
So big, open room like this have usually a fireplace
I use mine as a shelf
Here's some shelves so you put everything
So people didn't seem like they used their fireplaces that much
But they like to use it in winter
I also love the fact that we have a fireplace
So, when the winter comes, we can snuggle around the fireplace
And there's a fireplace
Do we ever use that thing?
Only at Christmas time
Now, we did get one person who actually uses the fireplace to heat their home though
Finally, our wood stove is in the corner, connected to the chimney
Next, we want to talk about carpets
In America, it seems like it's popular
Hello Aiko and Shin, where we're from this is our living room in Western New York
In the other countries we saw, we didn't see any carpets in living rooms
But they had carpets
They had carpets? What kind of carpets?
Well, little carpets
Oh, rugs, yeah, you're right.
So they had rugs over top of like laminate or tile...
In the living room area you mostly always can find a carpet, like a pretty huge carpet
Our floor is mostly tile, just like the rest of our house
We noticed that some people like putting desks in their living rooms
And they like putting their computers on it
Work, work, work! Or play. Minecraft?
Something that's pretty different, I guess, in my house
is that we got a kind of office in the living room
And in that corner I have the computer
So this is my work place
We saw lots of rooms with cute pets in them
So this is what our living room in Draper, Utah looks like
That is a ?
And who's that little thing on the pink thing?
Grumpy
Watching all the videos, I started to realize that it's kind of hard to pin down
the concept of a living room
Some people used it to entertain guests, some people used it for eating,
some people used it to study even
and some houses even have separate rooms for each one of these functions
I would say that my living room is pretty big, pretty open,
because there's no separation between the kitchen area and the living room area
This living room is mostly used for formal things, such as parties
like in Christmas and New Years
Any other day, we're probably using this living room
because it has the TV, the Wii, and the DVD
As you can see this is the dining room and over here, this is the living room
In most living rooms, they have sofas, and TVs, and a coffee table
It is usual to have couches and a centre table
Couches are always placed around a coffee table and they usually face a television
There is a TV
Another principle element of living rooms in France is the TV
Mine is actually older than me, but it still works
I like the style of the Lithuanians. They were always ready for guests
Mostly, table is always set, because you always can have unexpected guests
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
Thank you for watching our video!
What are living rooms like where you're from?
Hey Aiko, she stole your line!
Oh that's fine, she was cute
Yeah, she was. What do we want to see in the next video?
We want to see what are kitchens like around the world
Yeah, so please let us know what a kitchen is like where you're from
and we'd love to see some countries we haven't seen before, or some places, like
I want to see Hawaii
Hawaii? Okay, I want to see, maybe some countries in Africa, or India,
or some other places in Asia
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and sorry we couldn't put all the videos, but we're going to watch it all,
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Okay, thanks for watching!
See you next time, bye!
Did you say, "See you next time?" Kind of, "See you next time, bye"
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