Greetings from the Land of Ice and Snow!

**~~Aemma~~** · 12-13-2008, 06:12 PM

Bonjour All!

I am Aemma, a French Canadian who lives in Ottawa, Ontario Canada--our lovely capital, home of the world's longest outdoor ice skating surface!

I'm delighted to be here! I'm a staunch French Canadian Nationalist, seeking to preserve and promote not only my own French Canadian culture in Canada but just as much preserving and promoting my Northern European roots as well.

I've been happily married these 21 years to a most wonderful man who still easily manages to keep me laughing. We're also the proud parents of an amazing 12 year old boy who is equally proud of his cultural and ethnic roots. We're a Heathen/Odinist family and have been so for these last couple of years.

I personally have a variety of interests, not the least of which is to jump into stimulating online discussions pertaining to religion/spirituality, culture/ethnicity, history, politics, philosophy, psychology.

I also enjoy gardening, knitting and sewing, and of course reading!!

I'm glad to be here! And thank you for having me here.

Cheers for now!...Aemma

**Absinthe** · 12-13-2008, 06:26 PM

Greetings!!

**~~Beorn~~** · 12-13-2008, 06:33 PM

Hello!

Interesting fact I learnt the other day and your thread is as good as any to hijack, but did you know that Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the invention of the word 'Hello'?

Before this, we never greeted by using 'hello', but used 'hallo' as a form of surprise or as it was told to me, "by way of Hallo, what's going on here, then?"

Amazing.

Aaannnyyway!!...... Welcome to the Apricity.

**Loki** · 12-13-2008, 06:36 PM

Bonjour Aemma!

Glad you made it over here.

It's great to have a French Canadian, so we can have an enriched perspective on the forum. I liked your posts on Skadi, and am hoping to see many more here. Make yourself at home, and let us know if you need any help.

**~~Aemma~~** · 12-13-2008, 07:00 PM

Thank you very much for the warm reception!

And thank you so much for the nice compliment Loki; yes I shall enjoy rolling up the old sleeves and getting at her too.

And BeornWulfWer, you taught me something! I didn't know that either! interesting! Thank you!

Cheers for now all and thank you again for opening your doors to me!...Aemma

**Vulpix** · 12-13-2008, 07:28 PM

Hi Aemma! A warm welcome to the Apricity

!!

I've had the pleasure of visiting Québec (10 years have passed already since then

!) and I loved it

!

Nice to have you here, as Loki said, you will enrich our forum with your perspective

.

By the way, you are our 100th member

!

**~~Æmeric~~** · 12-13-2008, 09:30 PM

Welcome!

Greetings from the Land of Ice and Snow!

Odd choice of words to describe Canada after you took me to task for stating that much of it was covered in tundra. Your response was something along the lines of "

:no no

".

**Atlas** · 12-13-2008, 09:43 PM

Bienvenue/Welcome Aemma, it's nice to have also north Americans in here too. They have their words also on the problems of today's Europe since they know what they are talking about when looking at today's America !