User:MAP91
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Hi Everyone!
Real name: Mike
Member Since: Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Former username: Kc2lyq
Location: Long Island, NY (Nassau County)
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Hobbies: Chess, Golf, Baseball, Astronomy, Amateur Radio (Callsign: KC2LYQ), Hiking, Traveling, Skiing (Alpine and Nordic), and Puzzles (Jigsaw, Sudoku, Kakuro, and my favorite one Paint By Numbers, or Hanjie).
I enjoy hiking, especially mountain hiking. I've only hiked and "summited" three of the Catskill High Peaks, but I would like to be able to hike all 35 of them. I am hiking Mt. Washington in New Hampshire this June. This should be the most challenging hike I have participated in to date.
I love geography, and know all of the capitals of Europe. I love to learn the capitals of different countries, and would like to know them all soon. Traveling is also one of my passions. I would like to travel throughout all of Europe, with a specific interest in the Baltic states and all of eastern Europe (Belarus, the Balkans, etc.). The Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Greenland, Svalbard, and Scandinavia are also at the top of my list. I would also like to visit many of the Far-Eastern countries, like the Koreas, China, Taiwan, and The SE Asian countries. The cities I would like to visit most are: Longyearbyen (if you can call it a city), Stanley, Vilnius, Sofia, and Chişinău. I guess I'd like to visit just baout every country in the world :-).
I enjoy languages (learning, using them). Even though I am only at a basic proficiency level in German, I would like to become fluent in it. I would also like to learn Mandarin Chinese and many other languages. I find language to be very interesting. I also enjoy reading about (and some day learning) "rare" languages like Manx.
Another thing I enjoy is listening to music. My favorite genre is Progressive Rock. Some of my favorite artists are: Yes, Rush, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (ELP), The Who, Pink Floyd, early Utopia, Gentle Giant, Camel, and Billy Cobham
I also enjoy reading. My favorite genre is mystery (whodunit mostly), although I read some adventure and non-fiction. Some of my favorite authors are: Agatha Christie (the Poirot series especially), Clive Cussler (the Dirk Pitt novels), Louis L'Amour, and Ellis Peters. I've also read most of Jules Verne's works, and have enjoyed them greatly.
I also play the MMORPG RuneScape, and I use the username Fatalrook. Even though the graphics of this MMORPG are not as good as some of the other MMORPGs, I continue playing because I think that the gameplay is excellent. I tried Warcraft, and I had to go right back to RuneScape. Warcraft was fun, but for some reason I just enjoyed the whole concept of RuneScape more. It is an excellent and very entertaining MMORPG, and I recommend anyone with a few hours (or years) of free time to give it a try. Just a few thoughts!
I am new to Wikipedia, and I would like to learn how to create and edit pages.
I am a Sophomore at Chaminade High School, which is a private Catholic high school in Mineola, NY.
I am studying German in school, and am in my second year. This is how I have obtained my basic level of German proficiency, as shown in my Babel userboxes(I've finally learned how to place them in my profile!).
Some Wikipedia activities I would like to get involved in are: counter-vandalism, page editing, varying portals, and many other interesting endeavours.
This is only a temporary user profile. I'll make it better as soon as I learn more about creating pages. Thanks for taking a look, and hope to see you on Wikipedia!
