So, I wanted to know this for a while, and now that the site has reached 1000 users (way to go, Sylestia!! ) I can probably get a more diverse response.

Where do you come from? I'm Italian, and I live in Germany. Any fellow European? Italian, by any chance? I know for sure that there are a few Germans on the site, but I'd like to see how wide spread Sylestia is!

((Typing this out while I'm at school. I'm supposed to be typing out a journal entry... but that's due on Monday. xD
Procrastination will be the death of me...))

There is nothing too exciting about me. XD

I was born and raised in Salinas, California. Sadly, I do not remember much of that place, since my family moved to Ohio when I was 2 or 3 (don't really remember all that well.)
Ever since then, I have lived in Centerville, Ohio for as long as I can remember.

And I'm 15 right now, so that means I've been here for well over a decade.

However, my family roots is a tad more interesting, lol.

I'm a quarter Portugese (Mother's side) and a quarter German (Father's Side). However, neither of those have a real impact on my appearance.

I'm just an American. xD Although, I do wish to visit Italy in the future.

Yay! Your life seems much more interesting than mine, that's for sure. And I should be studying as well, I have exams in than four days, so I can relate about the procrastination...
Italy is a WONDERFUL country, it's a bit messed up but it's worth a visit!

Well, I'm from Canada, Quebec~ X3
A bit far from everyone!~ lol
Maybe I'll see some more Quebecers
eventually adding on this site~ :3
Meh, as long as they make effort in
English, so I can understand them~ :3
(I always prefered English over French
since I'm a kid and I had no parents
knowing more than the basic or "bad"
translated word-for-word English~ XP)

Age : 19
But I chat with people of all ages and
sometime seem older or younger
depending how my brain's going.
Might sometime make no sense,
dyslexia(slightly) sorry, but I'm
normally able to take good care of my
spelling, but mistakes can happen~ ^w^"
Gender : Girl(DUH~ XD)
I'm not fan of much girly things thou,
but I something find some enjoyable~ :3

I'm no more at school, just working and
I enjoy it even if can be rough sometime~ XP

I'm not European, although one of my shining memories is my spur-of-the-moment decision to go to Switzerland and spend the first two weeks of my senior college year hiking the Bernese Oberland instead of attending classes. I literally bought a plane ticket one day and picked up my passport the next, two hours before my flight left the airport. It was one of the greatest adventures of my life. I had no idea where I was going to stay, and the only language I spoke fluently besides English was Spanish, which didn't help me at all there. I discovered a lot about the kindness of strangers. When I went to a restaurant to eat after my day hiking, with no clear idea of what town I was in, someone was inevitably found who could speak enough English to take my order and talk to me about where I'd been that day and where I might like to go the next.

When high winds kept me from crossing a pass and I had to turn back, three men I can only describe as cowherds let me stay with them rather than try to find my way back to the last town I had been in (I think it was Murren) in the dark. They shared their food with me, which was bread and cheese, and served me a whole can of pineapple for dessert. They gave me an Eiderdown and sent me up into the loft above the cow barn to sleep. It was the warmest, most comfortable sleep I had there. They didn't understand a word I said, and vice versa, but they refused the money I offered and, although they probably thought I was insane, they were nothing but kind to me.

I kept a journal of my two weeks, and turned it into a short story that I submitted to my writing workshop after I returned to the U.S. It kept me from getting a failing grade for having missed two weeks of class, so that was a bonus. But the real bonus was the journey. I'll treasure it forever.

Anyway, I was born in Los Angeles to hippie parents who decided they did not want to raise their family in a city. When I was still a baby, they moved to a small Colorado town that sat 7,000 feet above sea level, and started a co-op making candles and jewelry and trading chicken eggs for fresh cow's milk. Somehow, despite this influence, I grew up with a fascination for astronomy and particle physics. Lacking the math to make a go at a science career, I opted for journalism school in Pennsylvania instead. I spent two very formative young-adult years in Nevada, returned to Pennsylvania to finish college, and now live in upstate New York. In my twenties, I raced mountain bikes semiprofessionally and traveled to race in Oregon, California, Utah, Arizona, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Vermont, and Quebec (Mount Saint-Anne). I have not yet returned to Europe, but would dearly love to visit the British Isles, Italy, Greece, and also to climb Aconcagua in Argentina and stand among the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru.

I'm from "Imitation Russia" Alaska. *Most don't consider ALASKA as a State, and most confuse it's initial (AK) for Arkansas... Which sucks, when your furnace is broke, and your parts are shipped to a non-existent address thousands of miles away! T_T*

I have trouble thinking that Alaska is actually not
in the Canada, but belongs to the US~ owo
But not idea where the other place it, but still
must be a fail to have your stuff shipped at nonwhere
city... o.e"

AR is Arkansas

I am a US citizen.
49 years old
Female
Former Telephone Operator for Verizon (that's how I know the abbr. for states. :-) lol )

I live in Oklahoma....you know, that one state....where no one else lives.
My family is really boring. Go back far enough and you get Germans, Swiss, the like. Other than that, I'm a boring American. Woo.

Sorry to hear that, Oogbar. My dad lived in Nome for a long time, and even though I am not from Alaska, I know what you mean ... I once had a kid from North Carolina, a couple of years older than I, ask me what state Colorado was in when I said that was where I was from.