mardi 24 février 2009

Scotland

Which ideas do you have about scotland?




The most popular idea about scotish people is the kilt, actually yes they still wearing it but only on important day, like weddings.
But do you really belive they are naked underneath?
Check that!!!



What else?

Are they all really playing bagpipes?
Look so difficult to play that thing!! But did you know that the instrument is originally from Egypt? It just appeared in Scotland in the year 1000 and got really popular in the French Brittany and on the west of Spain too.

Did you know that scottish tartan's had a special meaning?
Any tartans are different and they used to represent a scottish family just like a coat of arms,
So it wasn't any kind of dress up for them, was really symbolic and all the village of the clan was wearing it.


Which other thing do you associate to the country, scotch? castles? the loch ness monster? Where did you get all those images from? family, friends, media?


lundi 16 février 2009

Guess...about which country am I talking about ?
A country somewhere in Europe.












It is not far from South and East of France - Switzerland - Greece...
















Beautiful cars and crazy driver

Gorgeous food.......





Weird towers........





I am sure you have found by now !



I am coming back soon to talk about it !

samedi 14 février 2009

Well, Lucie, Austria has a frontier with Italy. The next time you go to Italy, you can modify your route and stay some days in Austria. So you can discover a beautiful country and people, who are either proud or sceptic and sarcatic. The most of them like France although they were hard critisized because of their political choice in 2000.
Next time I speak about the Germans. But you can begin the debate when you have some prejudices.

vendredi 6 février 2009

A travel to Austria

Hello!

Do you like this house ?
Where is it? Did you hear from this architect, who has created such houses with plants and strange shapes? Are you surprised to get to know, that you can see this house in Vienna? This artist was called Hundertwasser and was an active and provocative ecologist.
This building had council flats but it was old and the municipality charged Hundertwasser renovating it in the 80's years.
The rents are not really expensive and everybody can get a flat there.

But I think you have other ideas about Austria and his inhabitants.



Perhaps the girls think of the Empress Elisabeth, who was so beautiful and so thin. Or they think of her love story with the Emperor, who was supposed to marry her sister Helena, but fell in love, as soon as he saw Sissi.





What do Austrians cook very well and like to eat?

What do they like to drink?
Coffee? Tea? Wine? Beer?

What about a "Wiener Mélange" with a " Apfelstrudel?" at "Café Demel" and a chat with your friends?


What else?

Austrians can ski as soon as they come into the world but they are bad footballplayers.
They all play music very well because they are Mozart's, Schubert's and Strauss' descendants.
They carry a tyrolean hat and leathertrousers.
They waltz around the room every evening.
They are xenophobe.( to us because we guillotined Maria-Antonia and kidnapped Maria-louisa for our Emperor Napoleon, I.)

Perhaps you know something in this way about the Austrians. I would like to read your comments.
Good bye!
What do you think of Polish people ?

Even if I have a very…difficult (to pronounce) polish name, I’ve never been to Poland, and I don’t know a lot of things about this country and his people.
I’m wondering : why Am I writing this article ????

But I have some prejudices about them :

- Polish people are hard workers;
- they drink a lot of vodka and have a good sense of humour;
- they are sometimes racists (you do not meet black people in Poland);
- their food is very good;
- they are very religious (even too much for some people);
- they like to party (a weeding party can last 3 days !)
- they are friendly and hospitable;
- the country of Poland has an extraordinary history of oppression;
- the Polish language is rather difficult to pronounce;

What about you ?
Do you know Polish people ? Have you ever been to Poland ?

I have a joke for you :

A Polish man moved to the USA and married an American girl. Although his English was far from perfect, they got along very well. One day he rushed into a lawyer's office and asked him if he could arrange a divorce for him.The lawyer said that getting a divorce would depend on the circumstances, and asked him the following questions:
Have you any grounds?Yes, an acre and half and nice little home.
No, I mean what is the foundation of this case?It made of concrete.
I don't think you understand. Does either of you have a real grudge?
No, we have carport, and not need one.
I mean what are your relations like?
All my relations still in Poland.Is there any infidelity in your marriage?
We have hi-fidelity stereo and good DVD player.
Does your wife beat you up?
No, I always up before her.
Is your wife a nagger?
No, she white.
Why do you want this divorce?
She going to kill me.
What makes you think that?
I got proof.What kind of proof?
She going to poison me. She buy a bottle at drugstore and put on shelf in bathroom. I can read, and it say: "Polish Remover".

I’m waiting for your comments !

Marilena Andrze…jewski – Petronelli – I will go on with Italian people….

jeudi 5 février 2009

something to think about...

lets have a look on that website, i think is quite interesting and match perfectly our subject...

french saw by british...

How british people saw us...

French people don't wash themself, they're all dirty...
French peole have weird tastes: they eat snails, frogs, and horses...
French people are rude...
French people are lazy...
French people should be thanksful, british peole same them from nazis...

Do you know more prejudices?
Are we really like that? honestly!