Ni Hao!
Hello there,
First of all, I want to thank you for the great opportunity you are giving me by letting me stay a year with your family!
Let me introduce myself:
My name is Nathan De Bruyne, I am 16 years old, and my birthday is on the 5th of November.
I have two brothers and a sister; their names are Killian, Kellen & Skralan…
Skralan, my sister, is the youngest and she’s 13 years old. (Her birthday is on the same day as my mum’s)
Killian is 19 and Kellen is 15.
My mum’s name is Christel Baisier and she works as a nursery teacher.
My father’s name is Hendrik De Bruyne and he’s a worker at ‘Pluma’. It’s a big company that makes cured meat.
I’ve also got a few hobbies, Computer, Football, Snowboarding and Hanging out with my friends.
I often go on the computer to chat with my friends, and sometimes I play games on it.
I also like playing football, I live near a football ground so, during the holidays, you can often find me there!
Snowboarding is also one of my hobbies. I just love snowboarding.
I’ve been snowboarding for four years, and every year I go to France to snowboard for a week and once every few months I go to an indoor slope to practise and just enjoy myself!
I am a sociable boy, so I love to hang out with my friends! Every Friday I go to a public square where I meet my friends, and make new ones!
If I have to define myself in 3 words, then it would be:
Sociable, Humouristic and Curious.
Sociable: I love talking and making new friends. One big advantage is speaking so many languages! The more languages you can speak, the more people you can talk with! At the moment I’m studying 5 languages at school and I speak Estonian/Lithuanian.
Humoristic: Don’t ask me to tell any jokes, because I am not good at it! But just by being myself, I know how to make people laugh.
Curious: I am someone who wants to know what is happening in the World, and what has happened in the past!
I watch the news every day, and I try to read the newspaper as often as possible!
I also like History.
Maybe you want to know why I chose China to study?
Well, I already knew for a long time I wanted to go to a foreign country for a year, after I’ve graduated.
I always wanted to hike in Australia, until my English teacher told me you could redo your senior year in a foreign country. Ever since then I’ve wanted to go to China!
Since the age of 10, my dream has been to study Chinese at university!
I said I would study ‘sinology’ at university.
The school subjects I like are History, Languages, Economics and Geography and I am also very interested in foreign cultures.
So Sinology would be a good choice.
And a year China would give me a good basis of Chinese language and culture!
That ‘s more or less all there is about me,
Here are some photos of my family
Picture 1: Me and my mum in Tenerife!
During the summer holidays went to Tenerife with my family.
Picture 2: Another one with me and my family, without my eldest brother
He didn’t go on holiday with us, because he had to study for his exams!
Picture 3: Me and my little brother and sister!
Picture 4: Same!
Picture 5: Me, sweet 16,
This is I in red, to the left of me you’ve got Vincent, and to the right of me you’ve got Michiel.
Those are two of my best friends. This picture was taken on my 16th birthday.
Let me know if its all ok
For getting it translated into chinese I could give you some points if you like/need.
Bises
Tantine
Tafsiri-vipenzi
Mijn grootste "probleem" is dat ik na school Duits aan de universiteit gestudeerd heb, en dus meermals denk ik aan duitse woorden als ik probeer, Nederlands te spreken :P
