November 28, 2006 at 5:20 pm (Uncategorized)
I would like to learn sign language. First, I like to learn new languages. Second, sign language is really not an ordinary language. And third, it allow us to communicate with people that are often left aside. I think it was really a great progress to create a language for the deaf. Before, they were forced to learn the normal language, to speak it, and to read on the lips of the others persons.
November 28, 2006 at 5:15 pm (Uncategorized)
I think being oneself is being different.For exemple, I really hate the fashion. The principle is that everybody must be like everybody. It’s the herd instinct: when one sheep throw itself over the edge of a cliff, all the sheeps of the herd do the same thing. So I would like to do something really different, that would follow no rule.
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November 28, 2006 at 5:06 pm (Uncategorized)
I always had the impression that our destiny is determinated. Even with good studies, we will not have a real future. We will just follow a path. It’s difficult, and sometimes impossible, to create his own path. Well, it’s my impression. Platon (I think it’s him) said that “there is no favourable wind for the person who doesn’t know where she goes”. But sometimes I would like to give up doing all the things I’m doing, and follow a road that goes nowhere.
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November 28, 2006 at 4:25 pm (Uncategorized)
I like the Inca civilization. It’s mayby a bit too warlike, but facinating, with all its gods, its architecture (thoses pyramids), its costums and foods. So if I want to visit Mexico it’s to know better this civilization. The history of Mexico city is also fantastic: the town was built on a swamp. At the beginning, nobody liked this region. And after a time, the Incas managed to turn it the capital of their empire. But know, I think the city was spoilt, with too much pollution, too much people, and too much ugly buildings.
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November 28, 2006 at 4:16 pm (Uncategorized)
Venezia seems to be a really beautiful city. And I think it must be fun not to have roads but channels. And as I read Stravaganza, which takes place in Venezia, I would like to see what the town is like.
November 28, 2006 at 8:19 am (Uncategorized)
You really must go to Chile. It so beautiful, and there are a lot of wild animals: fox, llamas, birds,… The persons are really nice, and you have security.
Here is a photo I took there. It’s a quite cold region, so you have to take a lot of pull-overs. And it’s also very expensive. When I went there, last year, I stayed in a kind of farm, with only one bathroom for four or six rooms, for exemple, and it was really expensive. So I can’t imagine the price of the delux hotels. In fact, Torres del Paine is a protected region, so the prices of the hotels are very high because the government doesn’t want to attract a lot of tourists.
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November 26, 2006 at 1:41 pm (Uncategorized)
I really love ancient civilizations, like Rome, Greece, Babylon, Indians, Amerindians, Aztecs, ancient China… So I want to go to these places to understand how these civilizations worked. I think History is likes stories. I seems like other fascinating worlds, with their own customs, food, architecture, art,… In Greece, I would like to see the Parthenon, the monuments,…
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November 26, 2006 at 1:23 pm (Uncategorized)
I really love reading, and I adore books. I always thunk that it would be better to enter a book than to live in the reality, why the reality has narrow limits, while the imagination has nearly no limits. Everything becomes possible, and it’s not just our boring everyday. As we say in French: “metro, boulot, dodo” (subway, work, sleep).
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November 7, 2006 at 8:20 am (Photographs)
Lagoa de GenipabuOriginally uploaded by Benedictem.
This is a lagoon near Natal city. The name Natal means Christmas. The city was created from a fortress named “Fortaleza dos reis magos” ( fortress of Wise kings). The city of Natal is in Northern Brasil.
This lake is called Genipabu lagoon. Just behind the dunes, there is the sea. The heat is incredible: more than 40º!
November 6, 2006 at 6:23 pm (Photographs)
“There are good photos and there are bad photos. But how do you take a good photo?
Some things in a good photo are interesting lines, clear, also there should be emotion in a photo. Most good photos are spilt into three. Taking a photo from a different way then we look at it like laying down and taking it from ground level makes you look at a whole different way. What do you think makes a photo ;looks good.” Elaine’s blog
Personally, I think qualifying a good photo is a matter of personal taste. But I think they are some criteria: good light, for example, determines if the photo is good or not. The angle is important too. I also think it must appeal to emotions like love, revolt, sadness, melancholy, …. A unusual photo is sometimes beautiful.
Moreover, I think the colours are really important. This picture represents Northern Lights, and I think that here the lights and the colours make the picture beautiful.
This one is pretty good because of the contrasts between the colours, and also because the subject is impressive:
In order to take a good photo, it’s necessary to train, and to take a lot of photos. You only manage to have some good ones out of many.
