First post

Hey guys it’s Nicole jokes it’s Yasmine but you call me Nomine (get it)

I am Tunisian but consider myself to be a child of the world because I have moved quite a bit in my 16 years of existence. I like to cook, take pictures, write poetry, sing, draw and I think that is about it. In this year I would like to try new things and get out of my comfort zone. I would also like to for the future learn more languages, share the diverse art forms I practise to the world and travel more (even if I am scared of planes) .

I think language is very important because it is how we express ourselves, orally or by writing and it is very important to learn it at school.

In my day to day life, language gives me the opportunity to express myself and how I feel. With languages, it is possible to enjoy various types of media and to read.

I actually have felt excluded because of language numerous times. Up until the age of 4, I only spoke english because I was enrolled in a British school in Nigeria and I also had a British accent. This clashed with my family in the holidays when we would go to Tunisia because most of the time I would not understand my extended family and they would not understand me.  The misunderstanding that I cannot forget is when I told my grandmother I wanted to sleep, and she understood “slip” meaning underwear in french. She wondered for a while why I constantly wanted to change my underwear.  Eventually I was enrolled in a French school in Saudi Arabia and I learnt how to speak French and Arabic, but I lost my British accent.

That’s all folks.