About

When I started this blog I did introduce myself, but still rather poorly. So I decided to make a new tab called ‘about’, where you will find everything you need to know about me and this blog.

So who are you anyway?
My (internet) name is Peter. Boubat isn’t my surname either, but we’ll pretend it is. The thing is that my grandma bought a poster in France which says ‘Édouard Boubat’ in a corner and hung it on the wall of my summer house bedroom, so now I spend most of the day staring at that poster. And when I registered to blogger, I had to give a name and a surname, so I thought; “Meh… why not Boubat?!” So yeah… By the way, this is the poster (without the letters and stuff):
Now that that’s out of the way, I’ll say that I won’t tell you my age either, though it’s not too hard to more or less guess by reading my posts, but I will give you a clue: it’s between 2 and 167.
Where do I live? In Spain. Then why do I speak English? Because I grew up in New Zealand. My gender identity? I identify as genderqueer, as I tend to move between genders. Most of the time I’m male, though. I’m also pansexual, but depending on the day I can prefer one gender or another.
Let’s see my tastes… when it comes to music, I guess I like anything that doesn’t make too much noise. I like classical but I don’t listen to it. My favourite singers at the moment is Jedward. I also like Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and the like. My favourite book authors are Haruki Murakami and Roald Dahl, though I don’t read that much. I prefer manga (Naruto, Bleach and Blue exorcist), so I guess my favourite mangakas (person who draws manga) are Masashi Kishimoto and Tite Kubo.
I’m not much of a movie person either. I can’t really sit still and simply stare at a screen for too long, but I guess I’ll give you my top 5 (in no specific order): The son’s of Ching, AI Artificial Intelligence, Bridge to terabithia, Whale rider and 50 first dates.

My hobbies are drawing and reading manga. I watch a few anime, too, but as I said before; I can’t stare at a screen for too long. I love languages, too. At the moment I speak English, Spanish, Catalan, half-fluid French and I just started Japanese. As to sports, I don’t really play any but I love watching judo on TV and snowboarding. Well I guess I do body-boarding… I do love my bike though, but I ride carelessly when nobody’s around and tend to bash into lots of walls because I don’t look where I’m going or because I try to take photos without having to stop, so my legs a full of scratches and cuts.
My mission in life is to learn Japanese and go to Japan. When that’s complete, I’ll find another one to spend my life blabbering about.
And that’s pretty much all about me!

Where are you?
As I mentioned in the last section, I’m living in Spain. Here there is a different education system than in America or anywhere else (maybe not in Europe though…), so I’ll tell you a bit how it works.
When you’re a kid, you go to kindergarten and then to pre-school, until you’re six, and then you start school. In pre-school, they usually put you in a class that have animal names (the giraffe class, the whale class..) and you walk around with a robe thing called “bata”. The teachers have to wear it too >:D
Anyway, then you move on to school (6 to 12 years old) and then they send you off to high-school, where you lose your innocence from one day to the next and they insult you and hurt you because of any small detail they can think off (12 to 16 years old). When you’re sixteen you can either leave school and go to work or something (what most of the ones who had been laughing at you the past years decide to do) or you can continue studying. If you do continue, you can go to do a module of some sort or continue, usually at the same centre, to do what I call college, but who knows if it is called like that. In Catalan it’s “batxillerat” (16 to 18 years old). Anyway, it’s much more serious than high-school and you actually have to study (I hadn’t studied for any exam until I got there…). When you finish that you can go to work, or to University or something else. And that’s the end.
Usually the ages match, though some people (quite a few) can repeat a year if they fail more than three classes.
Anyway, all this was just to say that I have six classes a day (30 hours a week) and that I might have a turn on the internet when I get back home or during the weekend and so that you have an idea of what I’m talking about when I say “high school”.

What is all this blog thing about and why in the world did you decide to do this?!
I see lots of blogs and websites about trans* or people from the LGBT and it looks kind of fun and you can also say a lot about it, so I decided to do one myself.
It’s mostly about things I see in RL but also has things I find on the internet that I found useful or funny. There, this was a short section J.

And that's the end of that!

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