Telephonez-lui!! Ca vaut le coup.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Kar'Aimant Déco
Avez-vous pensé faire un truc de joli, artistique? Bon j'ai une amie qui fait les trucs supers!!
La belle France
Hier soir j'ai pris le train TGV pour faire Lyon Marseille, 1h40 avec un arrêt à Valence pas mal pour faire 315 kilomètres. En sortant de Lyon on voyait les Alpes avec leur sommets tous blancs et l'aurore du soleil. Puis le massif de Vercors encore enneigé. Quel beau pays La France.
Monday, 22 March 2010
Driving Miss Daisy
Have you ever seen 'First Wives Club'? Well, at one point early in the film Goldie Horne's character says that actresses in Hollywood have to be 'Babe young, District Attorney or Driving Miss Daisy'.
I had already heard of the film 'Driving Miss Daisy' but was not sure if I had seen it or not so I bought it on www.play.com and yesterday took a couple of hours to watch it. Perhaps I am a little easily taken under the spell but I found this film just great on a number of levels. It started out as a stage play and I must admit that I am not sure how the film and the play are similar or not. Anyway, if you get a chance to see it, spend and hour and a half of pure pleasure.
I had already heard of the film 'Driving Miss Daisy' but was not sure if I had seen it or not so I bought it on www.play.com and yesterday took a couple of hours to watch it. Perhaps I am a little easily taken under the spell but I found this film just great on a number of levels. It started out as a stage play and I must admit that I am not sure how the film and the play are similar or not. Anyway, if you get a chance to see it, spend and hour and a half of pure pleasure.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Bridges of Madison County
Have you ever seen this film? I think I saw it some years ago but had forgotten what it was about. Meryl Streep and Robert Redford at their best. A four day love affair. Love, real love. So beautiful, so special. See it!!
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Pensions
An interesting link about pensions.
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/Retirement/LFEA
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/Retirement/LFEA
Saturday, 6 March 2010
SCREAM!!!
Who else out there is lonely?
I thought that this part of my life was over but no. In fact probably as I get older I will find myself more and more alone, despite the fact that I do have friends and family.
For 3 days now, I have had no contact with anyone. No phone calls, no emails, no sms. I have been out just to see and to hear people, isn't that just sad? I was in the tram yesterday evening on my way home from the cinema. Next to me was seated a lad, 19/20 opposite him as mate and a girl. All chatting away. What happens to us as we grow older. Sometimes I look about me and I see older straight couples and I wonder if I shouldn't have been straight just to grow old with someone and to share things with someone. I wouldn't even have thought of this a year ago!
I have a boyfriend but we live in two different countries and the separation seems to be becoming longer and longer.
Oh quelle vie de merde en ce moment!!!!
I thought that this part of my life was over but no. In fact probably as I get older I will find myself more and more alone, despite the fact that I do have friends and family.
For 3 days now, I have had no contact with anyone. No phone calls, no emails, no sms. I have been out just to see and to hear people, isn't that just sad? I was in the tram yesterday evening on my way home from the cinema. Next to me was seated a lad, 19/20 opposite him as mate and a girl. All chatting away. What happens to us as we grow older. Sometimes I look about me and I see older straight couples and I wonder if I shouldn't have been straight just to grow old with someone and to share things with someone. I wouldn't even have thought of this a year ago!
I have a boyfriend but we live in two different countries and the separation seems to be becoming longer and longer.
Oh quelle vie de merde en ce moment!!!!
Parties!
Party. Here is a definition that I have come up with from (all those prepositions!!!!) the net:
A party is a gathering of persons who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, and recreation. A party will typically feature eating and drinking, and often music and dancing as well.
Thinking about it, parties are for all sorts of reasons: birthday, special occasions, non special occasions.
I love parties!
A party is a gathering of persons who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, and recreation. A party will typically feature eating and drinking, and often music and dancing as well.
Thinking about it, parties are for all sorts of reasons: birthday, special occasions, non special occasions.
I love parties!
Invictus, the film
In this film we see how South Africa began on the road of full integration after the election of Nelson Mandela.
The Man in the Arena
The actual text given to François Piennar by Nelson Mandela was the Man in the Arena, taken from a speech made by Theodore Roosevelt in 1910:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
This is the poem from the film 'INVICTUS' directed by Clint Eastwood
Friday, 5 March 2010
Teaching salaries - Teachers of the world: UNITE
Yes, I am a teacher and at the moment am looking for new challenges but in teaching new challenges means having to do quasi missionary work. Already teachers are not exactly overpaid.
We work hard nurturing the worlds young people, looking for their talents and developing and nurturing them. We also spend hours of non contact time in preparation, marking, meetings and yes, just thinking about what we are doing (evaluation) and what we could do to encourage our charges to develop.
Anyway, I have just been on the Times Ed jobs site and found this:
When I first saw it I thought 'Hey yeah, teaching English and French in India, great!' then I saw the 'benefits'!!
Postgraduate/graduate level: well that means that you have already studied for at least 3-5 years (loans, student jobs etc).
The candidate should be fluent in English - well if you are not a native speaker this doesn't come at the wave of a magic wand.
Levels: basic to advanced: so you have to deal with child and adult beginners to almost fluent speakers, hey, how much experience do you have to have had to do that?
Then you see the salary! Whenever they start Accommodation, Food ... that means that you are going to be working for nothing or peanuts. You are going to do this because you are 22 and you want to see the world. How do you have any experience to really do what they want?
There are places, NOT FRANCE, where teachers are respected, where wisdom and knowledge and qualifications are respected: A friend of mine worked in Japan for 2 years and managed to save £10,000. She then came to France where in 10 years she has had to spend ALL this money and can make enough to survive!!
When will the world and TEACHERS realise that we need to get together and to be paid a real salary for what we do. I am not talking silly money but enough money to pay our way and to have a little left over????
TEACHERS OF THE WORLD - UNITE!!!!!!
We work hard nurturing the worlds young people, looking for their talents and developing and nurturing them. We also spend hours of non contact time in preparation, marking, meetings and yes, just thinking about what we are doing (evaluation) and what we could do to encourage our charges to develop.
Anyway, I have just been on the Times Ed jobs site and found this:
Postgraduate/graduate level: well that means that you have already studied for at least 3-5 years (loans, student jobs etc).
The candidate should be fluent in English - well if you are not a native speaker this doesn't come at the wave of a magic wand.
Levels: basic to advanced: so you have to deal with child and adult beginners to almost fluent speakers, hey, how much experience do you have to have had to do that?
Then you see the salary! Whenever they start Accommodation, Food ... that means that you are going to be working for nothing or peanuts. You are going to do this because you are 22 and you want to see the world. How do you have any experience to really do what they want?
There are places, NOT FRANCE, where teachers are respected, where wisdom and knowledge and qualifications are respected: A friend of mine worked in Japan for 2 years and managed to save £10,000. She then came to France where in 10 years she has had to spend ALL this money and can make enough to survive!!
When will the world and TEACHERS realise that we need to get together and to be paid a real salary for what we do. I am not talking silly money but enough money to pay our way and to have a little left over????
TEACHERS OF THE WORLD - UNITE!!!!!!
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Liberté
See the trailer here: http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18941702&cfilm=137350.html
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