Re: beddy time!
> > ça va, Suzanne?
>
> > tu sais que j'ai beaucoup aimé ta carte...
>
> yes. i try my best.
tu as fait ton meilleur et ça m'a fait très heuruex...
>
> > well, I think I have said something about it to you, that I
> > would begin to have English conversation classes.
>
> > Well, now I pay for one of my School students to give english
> > conversation classes to me.
>
> > My spoken English, of course, is not good but I was surprised
> > she could understand everything I was saying!
>
> heh. well, it also helps when you come from a country with people who speak similar to
> you anyway.
>
> a friend of mine agreed with me when she said that she could understand other
americans
> or the English when the spoke french, but when the french spoke it, she couldn't
> understand it.
this is true. I remember a brazilian president who spoke in french somewhere and a
deputy said he could understand just the french spoken by the president and not the
french spoken by french people...
>
> because we english speakers like to break up our words into easily distinguishable
> phrases. all the latin based ones like to run all of the sounds together.
what???
oh, I have to disagree!
you english speakers run all the sounds toghether to me...
you see, I think the difference between us is that I speak portuguese and you english...
our languages seem clearer to us...
>
> > mmmm... I don`t know... but it must have been a difficult
> > decision... Which one you've made?
>
> scrounged up some things from the kitchen, basically. i was so tired ya know. i'm
tired
> now, but procrastinating in the worst way since i have to mix up what i'm taking to
work
> tomorrow.
I understand you - procrastinating is not good at all. If we do what I have to do we
feel much better the next day.
> > oh... I really felt for you...
>
> > talking about this Morrissey song, it really seems a friend of
> > mine will be sued because there`s an old and crazy woman in the
> > building I live in. She just want to be bad with everybody
> > around her.
>
> why does she want to sue?
it seems my friend's son was eating on the table because the woman's dog was scaring
him. So the woman made a complaint against the man who works in the building because my
friend's son was on the table! So my friend wrote some things against the woman, and the
woman wants to sue her...
>
> > Oh, this made me really happy. I think you've been loyal to her
> > despite everything she did to you - perhaps she finally
> > recognized it.
>
> no, i think she's happy that i'm back to doing my old desk again. that was pretty much
> my entire function in her eyes.
ok, but... she was gentle to you before you went to Europe, isn`t it? And did you bring
the Gummi "from German" she asked you?
>
> > I really felt for you again...
>
>
> > My parents had recently their house invaded by assailants and
> > they stole the few jewels my mother still had (her other jewels
> > had been stolen more than 10 years ago). She said the sensation
> > of having her house invaded were still worse than the robbery
> > itself.
>
> yeah, i feel weird sitting in my car. there is no sound because my stereo is
completely
> gone. i get over the feeling until i have to get back in the car and go somewhere and
> every step of the way i look down and see that gaping hole in my dashboard. i think of
> those CDs i had spent years picking out and listening to now
this is really terrible, isn`t it? We are normally so attached to our prefered cds.
>in the hands of someone
who
> probably thumbed through them and said, "what the hell is this @#!!!?"
oh yes, this is what my mother told me - she thought about the hand's men in their room,
budging everything, and what he would do with the jewels she was so attached because of
particular reasons.
Anyway it had a good thing in it: finally my father bought an alarm system to his big
house. We are all more calm that way.
>because they had
> decided that when they got in the car, they were going to take everything that wasn't
> bolted down and worry if it was worth something to them later on.
yeah...
i don`t know, but it`s difficult to understand why a person do a thing like that...
>
> speaking of CD's, i still hadn't made it to the post office yet. i hadn't gotten off
> work until 7 tonight. it should have been nearly an hour sooner had the system been
> working correctly.
oh, I am sorry I made it to you... they have promised me the cd would go to your
house...
anyway, i am sad now because I can`t record cds anymore. I have to call someone here (a
guy gave me instructions that didn`t work) and this always worry me.
>
> > around here where? in internet?
>
> yes.
but it wasn`t in the discussion board, was it?
>
> > but how this strange thing happened?
>
> f.uck if i know. i look like being Morrissey, right?
oh really?
well, as for me... I... kind of... copy some of his ways...
but discreetly, you see?
>
> > this is funny indeed...
>
> > heheheh...
>
> > Oh, and be sure I was not the guy who did it!
>
> heh. well you know how it is. i'm sure everyone hopes they can find the real Morrissey
> lurking under an assumed name somewhere around here.
yes, and we both now he probably is here...
>
> > Do you really like French more than other countries? I used to
> > be that way...
>
> > ... that`s why I learnt French before I have learnt english.
>
> > But this is really really amazing, you know?
>
> > But you know, if you were looking confused in front of me I
> > would like to help you indeed...
>
> yes, i know that all too well
this make you sick?
oh, you don`t need to answer if the answer is yes...
))
>
> > I really don`t know what to say about French people. I knew some
> > of them in the History and Litterature course I did in the end
> > of my French course, and some of them were nice and some of them
> > not.
>
> well, that's people in general.
yes. Anyway we are treated a little bit as inferiors, you see?
It seems they never let us forget they are superior and we are not...
or perhaps Brazilian people are a little be susceptible about these kind of things...
> > perhaps they were affraid of Germans because of the WW II, and
> > then they think if they treat Germans well they won`t be invaded
> > again...
>
> no, it just shows you what they think of americans!
heheh...
>
> > Anyway, I was remembering the 1982 Soccer World Cup when France
> > was defeated by German after being winning in the extra-time by
> > two goals of advantage...
>
> > were they still affraid of Germans?
>
> > Well, just kidding.
>
> > Anyway, do you think in fact French people hate americans?
>
> i think they hate the idea of many of them.
I think they are jealous of americans...
you see, when I was younger I put a great importance to France...
but i don`t know. Today I just prefer States...
what do you think about all that?
>
> and as i read somewhere, imagine your city being flooded with thousands of people who
> not only disrupt your daily life, but become very demanding because they don't think
> enough attention is paid to them.
Well, I don`t know how Americans behave in USA, but I do think if they don`t want
tourists they had to refuse their money too...
>
> > I think brazilian ones are horrible too.
>
> > I remember when I went to Europe how I was ashamed by my
> > compatriots' behaviour.
>
> > They simply spoke too loud. The brazilian guy who helped us in
> > Paris said he helped a brazilian soccer team and he admonished
> > them all the time because of the way they behaved in Paris.
>
> that's soccer players for ya. i assume they're going to act like that everywhere.
I think so.
Well... I`m not so sure nowadays. Most of them are religious or too rich... perhaps some
of them have some education...
>
> > Some people think they can do everything because of their money,
> > isn`t it?
>
> look at George W. Bush. he might be the next prez all because of his money and
> connections.
>
> at least Al Gore can claim something.
what?
well, I can`t like this guy...
>W. basically set up the educational system in
> Texas to ensure that the poorer students don't improve their situation one bit.
what kind of thing did he in educational system?
> I
> thought the point of school was to get kids out of the ghettos, not keep them there.
how did he do it?
>
> > oh... I was always ashamed when my compatriots acted like that
> > in Europe...
>
> > I remember when we were in a bus watching some French beaches
> > where it`s possible to make a topless. Well, all brazilians in
> > the bus made such a spetacle, taking photos of the girls and so
> > on that I had desire to ask for asylum in France...
>
> take asylum on the beach? :^)
hehehe....
you have a bad idea of me, isn`t it?
>
> > I don`t know, it seems French people are so more elevated
> > someway, isn`t it?
>
> not to me. they seem pretty laid back in a way that I can handle.
laid back like what?
>
> > oh yeah - brazilian people in foreign lands act always like
> > that.
>
> > Japanese people seem to walk always toghether, isn`t it? But i
> > wouldn`t be ashamed of them if I were japanese...
>
> i would huddle with other americans if i went to japan. i don't know any of the
language
> or the customs necessary to get around.
heheheh... i have never thought about it...
>
> > i have never heard about it...
>
> > Well, you can imagine my surprise: I studied in the School
> > (called Cefet)I give classes nowadays from 15 to 18 years old...
> > and when I ask my students most of them say the year I entered
> > in Cefet they were one or two years old...
>
> it sort of sneaks up on you, doesn't it?
yes - there`s a time in life when you perceived it. We always think we have te same age
someway... but we are not.
>You go for so long being the one who doesn't
> have a clue and then one day, you look behind you and think, "have i really been
around
> for that long?"
this is exactly what happens...
perhaps everybody passes by it, but I`m not that sure.
>Mentally, I think i will always be about 15. my brain doesn't want to
> accept that i will be dawdling around in a nursing home somewhere, shuffling very
slowly
> as some teenagers go running past me down the hall to see their grandpa.
yes... but all we can do is hope our days of old will be fine.
I see my grandma for example who forgot almost everything... at least she seems happy...
>
> ...i can't imagine i would ever have any grandchildren....
>
> > translate an american into French? this newsreport was from
> > whom?
>
> This was on French TV.
but they asked you for opinions?
>
> > but this was bad? and French meals were really around $20?
>
> no they weren't. I think they went to some really touristy-type places.
>
> i mean, you can tell. when you talk to her and compare against what you find in Paris,
> it's obvious she really didn't do anything outside of her group.
When I was in Europe I stayed most of time with my group... but three days without it in
Paris were great!
Unfortunately I didn`t return... well, just by internet!
>
> > i went to Paris in 1982 and I really saw the streets full of
> > painters... but frankly I thought all the thing a little bit
> > pathetic. They all painted the same picture!
>
> The eiffel tower?
yes... parisian scenes... and tourists portraits... water-colours always with the same style...
>
> Well, at least that's more of the image of Paris I had thought at one time existed.
and it was a deception!
>It's
> very strange. Here is this place known for its cheese, wine, fashion, artistry,
>writers,
> and what do you find when you walk in a souvenir shop? t-shirts! miniature replicas of
> the eiffel tower! coffee mugs!
yes... I always remeber a brazilian writer who wrote he was in a café in paris wanting for respiring the same air of Camus and Sartre... with lots of tourists around trying to respire the air of Camus and Sartre...
Paris n'est plus la même!
>
> everyone kept wanting me to bring them back something from France, but I bought no
> souvenirs there because what you could find was really insulting.
hehehe... i liked your description...
>
> > Oh, the world belongs to America!!!
>
> > this is fine...
>
> > but this is strange, isn`t it?
>
> > I think I would be affraid...
>
> > Anyway, normally people don`t act like that with men...
>
> > I understand - this is a really scaring experience.
>
> I was more mad than anything else. Besides the fact that it was so crude to act in
such
> a way, it just chalks up one more point for the jerks. and i hate to say it, but when
> something like that happens to me, i become more curt with all guys in general. it's
not
> on purpose. it's just a reaction.
and I understand you - it's a rather normal reaction.
But you see, some guys just aren`t like that...
>
> > oh... you know very well I`ll be very happy if you`ll do it.
>
> > I really enjoyed your post!
