The 'Six Things about yourself' Tag

Hey there!

So I was tagged by on the 14th of March, but I had so much to do (including this kaywenn.deviantart.com/art/The… kaywenn.deviantart.com/art/The… for a contest and it turned out so well! ) and I had absolutely no time or mind to do it. But I will do now.

Firstly, the rules:

1. You must post the rules.
2. Each person must post 6 things about themselves in their journal.
3. You have to choose 6 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
4. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged them.
5. No tag backs.
6. No stuff in the tagging section about "you're tagged if you're reading this". You legitimately have to tag 6 people.

Alright, let's see.

ONE
When I was about a year old my parents and I moved to Houston, Texas, because my father worked there in a laboratory (I think. I'm not quite sure where exactly). My brother was actually born in the US and still has a dual citizenship (german and american). We stayed there for three years and then came back to Germany. I can't remember much, which is pretty sad, but I'm still very good at english. And I've got a very american accent

TWO
I'm one of those people who grew up with Harry Potter. Harry Potter is responsible for my good english as well. I've listend to the audio books (read by the amazing Stephen Fry) for about a billion times (I'm doing it now actually! Forth book already! ) and it never gets old. Really, it is such an amazing book series. I've never actually read it though. We own all of the books of course and I love looking at them because of their beautiful covers (it's the british version ), but I've only ever listend to the audio books.

THREE
My parents divorced a while back. Actually, I don't even know how old I was then. Maybe twelve? I really don't know. But it wasn't a real shock to me. It's not like they were fighting all the time or I knew this was coming or something, I just didn't feel the need to get all upset and scream and be angry and everything I thought I was supposed to feel like. This is probably, because after moving back to Germany my father found work in a city that was about four hours away from where my mother, my brother and I lived and he was only ever there on the weekends. So the only real difference the divorce made was that now my brother and I had to visit my father instead of him visiting us.
The part about the divorce that does make me angry, is that my father refuses to speak to my mother and he blames her for all sort of stuff. My brother and me are always "in between". I HATE the sentece "Could you tell your mother..." (You've got the e-mail adress, haven't you???). My father even got all worked up about us coming not often enough and he wrote a letter to the youth wellfare office (is it called that?). Back then it was a four to five hour train ride and the prospect of sleeping on a very, very hard sofa. But is has gotten better now. He moved to a city that is much closer and easier to reach. And we made a plan for the whole year, when we should come.

So, I'm cool with the divorce. I think it has even helped me become more independant. I'm not freaked out by weird behaving trains anymore. Weird like "Okay, so this train isn't really working right now, maybe you'll have to take another one... Yep, you do, just sprint over there, that one's going where you want to go." and long delays and stuff like that.

FOUR
As I've already mentioned, I have a very american accent. But when I write in english, a actually use the british way of writing things. I think this is because when I read english books, they are usually the british version, so I might be influenced by that.
I own a lot of books. Over hundred, easily. I love reading, I really do. And I love books in general. I don't really know when it started, my parents have told me that I always had books (childrens books of course. I think the first book I can remember is Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. Is still have it and I love it so much, still! Especially the part about the Tweetle Beetles ). I tought myself how to read in kindergarten and thus was very bored in primary school. At some point (can't remember when. I seem to not remember a lot of things, which is a pity) I started reading english books as well and now I buy books that are originally english only in english. I hate books that were translated from English to German. The style just sounds all stiff and wrong. The same with movies. I hate syncronized movies. They feel all wrong to me.
When I watched How To Train Your Dragon in the cinema I hated it. Really, I didn't like it at all. Then I watched it in english and now it is one of my favourite movies. I was pretty disappointed with Rise of the Guardians but I'm sure that'll change once I've seen it in english

FIVE
I talk to myself. A lot. And I don't think it is weird at all. Everybody does that, right? And if you don't do it, start now. It's awesome.
I only talk to myself in english though. I talk a lot in english and think in english as well. Talking to yourself can be pretty motivating you know. I once had a crush on a guy but he didn't like me back and there were two things that got me over him: firstly a giant bowl of chocolate pudding and secondly talking to my reflection. If you ever feel down, you should do that. Only use positive sentences like "I feel horrible now, but it will be better. I've lived so many years of my life before I knew XY so he's not a vital thing of my life. I don't need him. I'm an independant person with lovely friends, a wonderful cat a ton of books and most importantly a great, loving family." Kinda like that. Just ramble on a bit, but don't throw yourself in the muddy pond of self pity. Life won't get better if you just whine about it and make yourself bad.
(No I'm definately not insane )

SIX
I don't get inspired by music. I've tried it. I just doesn't work. Musik and art or writing are seperate things to me. I can't write while listening to music, it just distracts me. And when I plan to draw something I do exactly that: planning. I think, hey I'd really like to draw this character out of my story. And then I think about it a bit more and the picture starts forming in my head. I love music so much, but it doesn't help me create things.
I play the flute and my teacher always tells me to tell a story when I'm playing. But I can't. There are no images when I play. There are just the notes and I play them as they are written. I'm really bad at expressing my feelings with music. I'm much better at it with words.

SEVEN (Yes, seven. I've decided that six isn't enough)
I am currently writing a book. Well, actually, I am planning the book I will write some day. I started seriously writing when I was eight maybe, because a friend and I always invented stories and I decided to write them down. When I was eleven I started writing a silly story about twin girls and a Pegasus and a different world where all of them end up at some point. The storyline was pretty stupid back then, but it has evolved over the years, becoming more complex, adding more characters slowly going somewhere. For a school project I actually wrote the story down, but when I was finished I realized I knew nothing about the characters or about the book itself. So that's where I am right now. I'm carefully planning characters and storyline and the world itself. My great goal with my drawing is to someday be able to draw these characters. So that's were I'm heading right now.
I don't really plan to post anything except character drawings here on dA. But I've written a few short stories of which I'm pretty proud. I might try to translate them to english after my exams!

Für meine deutschsprachigen Watcher (falls es denn welche gibt, keine Ahnung), wärt ihr an Fantasy-Kurzgeschichten über Nixen und Geister und Wölfe und ähnlichem interessiert?

So, that was it I think. I wrote quite a bit more than I expected. Well, I hope you found it interesting! And maybe I just rambled about a lot of boring stuff, I don't know. But I'm used to talking to myself, so it's okay

I tag:
I have no idea if you have done this tag already or if you do tags in general. If not, I'm sorry. I just don't know that many people on dA enough to tag them, so you are the lucky ones!



I bought three new books today! And I'm currently reading two other ones! And I'm listening to Harry Potter 4!
Kaywenn is quite happy at the moment

Love to everyone who wants it!

~Kaywenn