Hey! Hello everyone,
Umm... All right i'll introduce myself,
My name is Iasmin and I was born in Macau. yeah
This year- this year I'm 19 years old.
Actually I'm not from macau, but I was born there
My dad is Filipino, and my mom is Brazilian.
Yeah, I've lived in Macau my whole life
Macau is pretty nice, I like Macau because
its small enough, there's a sense of security
but sometimes it being a small place
isn't that great. It's still pretty great, in Macau you can learn how to
speak chinese, and portugese,
but because Macau is a place where,
how do you say, a place where lot of tourists go,
which means there are people from many different countries living there
so English is pretty important. So I... Yeah.
Even though I've spoken Chinese since I was small
and learned writing it from a young age as well,
as of now I'm better at english because
I speak English at home.
I haven't spoken Chinese for 2 years so maybe my Chinese isn't very good
But... Yeah, I actually really miss the food from Macau
because i've been living in Europe for 2 years,
and lots of things are completely different.
food from Macau is really tasty,
my favorites are curry fish balls, siu mai,
I don't know, yum cha, traditional Macanese or Chinese food.
all of it is very tasty. It's different from European food,
it's different, it just can't be compared.
Many of my friends in Macau weren't from Macau
I mean, a lot of them were Filipino
or American or Portugese. A lot of them were mixed.
It's good. But because I had all these foreign friends
I spoke English more at school-- with my friends and at home,
but my Chinese is also ok. It's not as good as people from Macau's though.
Currently Macau has many casinos so there are many mainland Chinese coming here, more & more are coming.
And, I don't know, um, even though Macau is small, there are many sites to see,
and a lot of history, because i forgot how many years ago,
the portugese came over, and i don't know how to say this,
i'm not very good with chinese words ;v;
i want to speak english,
I'm speaking English, cuz my Chinese is not so good right now
because I haven't spoken Chinese for like, 2 years?
But... So yeah. as I was saying, Macau is quite... a small place
but it's good because you kinda feel safe there
and now I've been here in Europe for a few years, and,
yes i miss Macau, I miss the food.
It's really different, the food in Macau and in Europe
but... yeah. why Macau is special to people, why there's loads of tourists
is because we have this mix of culture, a mix of Portugese-
a bit of Portugese culture and Chinese...
So um, yeah. There are loads of tourists
coming every year and um also just,
people who live in Macau are not really
Chinese or really from, many different places,
America, Portugal, Brazil, especially Phillipines,
so I have loads of friends that are not Chinese, foreign friends,
so I usually speak English more,
and maybe that's why I feel more comfortable in English
um, but, yeah. I don't know what to say.
I forgot to introduce myself in English. my name is Iasmin,
my mom's Brazilian, my dad's Filipino but I was born and raised in Macau
its... yeah. Pretty cool to be part of Macau
and I love Macau and I'm proud to be Macanese
um... yeah! That's all I have to say and yeah.
Thank you, bye bye!
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