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[minxybaby]

Someone from a country I never heard of visited my journal today. I had to google to find out where Mauritius was. It sounds like paradise! They have a population of 1.2 million. That's about the size of Ottawa and its surrounding area.

Oh, and if you are wondering how I know, I have a stat counter in my userinfo that logs IP addresses and tells you what city, country the visitors are from (and more). It's a free service. Check it out! StatCounter

EDIT: I just added Mauritius to my "To Do" list!

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[scarybaldguy.livejournal.com]

Read Douglas Adams' "Last Chance To See."

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

I just googled it and found this site. It looks like they tell most of his journey here, and there are lots of pics. Cool, I'll have to check for the book now.

[kawanee.livejournal.com]

I can't get that statcounter thing to open for me. It just opens a blank white page. *sigh*

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Oh that's odd. I tried my link in FireFox and IE and they both work for me. You can try the link by clicking on my counter in my userinfo, or you try this link and see if it works...

http://www.statcounter.com/

[kawanee.livejournal.com]

Nope, neither one worked. Ah well. I guess it's just not meant to be.

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

That sucks! I think the stat counter is neat. Oh well, sorry.

[kawanee.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Maybe it'll work tomorrow, who knows.

[pandalamp.livejournal.com]

Oooh I wanna go to Mauritius!

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it look like fun? One thing that would be difficult is less than 1% of the population speaks English. I'd totally want to go there before I die though. Tropical paradise!

[pandalamp.livejournal.com]

Yeah that always does make like a little harder. When I went to Greece it was pretty ok for the most part when we'd stay in the more populated areas but a few times I got to go into these little villages which were awesome but if I wasn't with someone that spoke fluent Greek I woulda been screwed lol.

train spotter ;-)

[xtown-traffic.livejournal.com]

language is a nuisance ;-) ... you might have spotted from my LJ, that my fascination is with Eastern Europe and Russia. As well as the "usual" places I'd love to visit many off-the-beaten-track parts of Russia and to see Sofia (capital of Bulgaria)... I also want to go to Shanghai to go on their super-fast Maglev train (goes to/from the airport at about 270mph!) and to Tokyo to go on the bullet train... but going by myself and not speaking a little bit of the language makes me think twice... It always seems easier to muddle through if there's a couple of you!

... I'm ok with Romania because I speak a little bit... so I'm goign to go for a week into the more remote parts - into the mountains in search of wolves and bears (hmmm, "nice doggy")... I'm going to book a tour with an English speaking guide, but I am going to take the option of staying with a local family(ies) rather than a hotel - that way I can speak Romanian all night and hopefully see proper home cooking! :-)

I hope you make it to Mauritius! I keep trying to convince my parents to be more adventurous travellers! \What language do they speak there?

Re: train spotter ;-)

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Once in a while I get to travel with work, but it's nothing really exciting. Mostly just around Canada, but I did get to spend 6 months in Israel (but stuck on a military camp with restrictions so it wasn't very fun!).

I'd love to go to China or Japan. The culture is so different, and I love the architecture and designs. That train sounds like it would be a real blast!

I didn't know you spoke a second language. Do you speak anything else? I took German in highshcool, but have forgotten 99.9% of it (nobody to speak it with in Canada so I lost it. :( )

Sounds like you'd get the full experience if you stay with families down there. And whenever you can practice your language it's a bonus!

I'd love to go somewhere exotic and less known like Mauritius. I try to make it there one day... maybe when I'm rich! Based on a 2000 census, the languages spoken in the country are: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% There's a CIA page on this country with more interesting facts, like life expectancy and population living with HIV/AIDS. Here's the page if you want to read more: *click*

lingo

[xtown-traffic.livejournal.com]

I don't speak anything fluently (other than gibberish English)... but my Romanian is enough to get me by in the capital... it probably needs brushing up quite a bit before I can go into the wilds by myself... but a tour where I can speak to people a lot will help me loads!!... I speak enough French to get by too (I did OK in my exams as a16 year old) and I still remember a moderate amount of the German I learned in school... and I can follow some Welsh (all my Uni friends were Welsh speakers, so I can follow conversations even though I can't speak very much!)... and to top it off I started trying to learn Belorussian this year... I've got as far as being able to pronounce cyrillic words, but that's about it!!

Every time I go to the Chinese takeaway I wish I knew a few words so I knew what they were chatting about so I could at least say thank you!

I had a lovely chat with a Japanese girl who was visiting a work friend once... I spoke no Japanese, she spoke only a tiny bit of English... so we talked in pictures which we drew on a large napkin!!... I may still have it somewhere... I can still remember how to pronounce her name!

I think languages are great... I just wish I could speak more of them!!

I have a Belorussian LJ friend and a Czech friend... they both write in cyrillic and I can read about 0.00001% of their entries ;-) .... one day I'l get there!!

Re: lingo

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

I love languages too. Unfortunately I forgot almost everything I learned. When I got to highschool my French teacher was a, for lack of a better word, bitch. I ended up dropping out of French because of her. I thoroughly enjoyed it every year before her though. We have to take French from grade 4 to grade 9, and have the option to take it till grade 12. After I dropped French I took up German. But, not having anyone to practice with made me lose it.

When I worked with the Japanese in Israel, I remember communicating with them on napkins too. lol And I picked up a few swear words. :P

A friend on LJ introduced me to her real life friend on here, and she writes all her entries in German. I am hoping that this will help me pick it up again. :)

[cajunmadness.livejournal.com]

mauritus is love. at first i wasn't sure where that was because i knew it from the french name a.k.a ile maurice lol I have a friend in my class that is from there. I'm still in shock she would move fromtropical paradise to hmm very cold montréal. but she loves it here. she been only a year. it was really funny to see her when it was first snowing but anyway. i've seen pictures and it's really amazing.

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

What a climate change! ha That would have been funny to see her when it was snowing for the first time. It does look like a wonderful place to be.

[cindy-reddeer.livejournal.com]

I didn't know we could use a stat counter on our user page! We use StatCounter at work for our web site, I love it. Where do you put the code in your user info?

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Go into edit journal (*click*) and in the section that says "About you" (the mini-biography) you can put the code in you userinfo anywhere you'd like to show up... I have mine at the top. Make sure you copy the whole HTML code that StatCounter gives you.

It will say:


<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->

----code for your counter here----

<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->


You want to copy and paste everything it says.

You can also put this information in a journal entry to see who visits your actual journal becuase more people visit your journal than they do your userinfo page. Only when the counter is visible will it work... so when your post moves off your front page it won't be able to gather data until someone goes back entries on your journal. You could also do the future date (like my recipe collection) if you wanted to keep it at the top and PUBLIC so it'll work for everyone. (I don't think there's a way to embed it directly into your journal (other than userinfo) so that it's always on your front page... if there is it goes way over my head into programming LJ layouts.)

Oh, and you can use the same code in as many places as you'd live. For example, if you had a different web page you could put it on every single page of your website, as well you could put in an LJ post and in your LJ userinfo. Just go back to where you have your code typed and copy and paste it in as many places as you'd like. It will keep one tally for every place the code is viewed under your single account name.

[giruff.livejournal.com]

Sis brother has been there *is jealous* it does look nice. We were concidering getting married in South Africa at one point and going for our honeymoon there.

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Aw man, I'm jealous too! That would be an excellent place for a honeymoon.

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that place either, but it looks amazing!!

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Yeah it does, let's go! hehe

[cha0sc0ntained.livejournal.com]

I wonder if people who live in places like that realize that they live in a place that everybody else thinks could be paradise.

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

That is something to think about. There are probably bad points as well as good just like everywhere else. Unless you've travelled a lot, it's hard to appreciate what you have now. I'm know I'd miss Canada a LOT if I ever left.

[pinkgoddess18.livejournal.com]

I'm a travel agent and I've never heard of it... It looks like Paradise though!!!

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

I heard of a lot of little countries, but this one was new to me too. I should start a travel journal based on the visitors to my journal. lol Most visitors are from Canada and the US. :)

[pinkgoddess18.livejournal.com]

I have the travel bug bad! I could live out of a suitcase for the next 5 years and be perfectly happy! I'll need a rich sugar-daddy to finance this dream, however.... LOL

[cindy-reddeer.livejournal.com]

That is more adventurous than me, I want a sugar daddy to pay to have my house cleaned. lol

[pinkgoddess18.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!! He can do that while I'm away! it needs it!!!! I have been a total slob for the past few days.

[minxy-baby.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that'd make a nice vacation too.

[screamie.livejournal.com]

Oh..."Ille Maurice"! One of my favourite postcard places! :-)