Picasso's Gentleman with a Pipe and Flowers

Pablo Picasso Gentleman with a Pipe and Flowers, 5.11.1968 Oil on canvas. 145,5 x 97 cm Rosengart Collection, Luzern, Switzerland Isn't it very colourful? I like it because it looks funny. I like the curly hair, the eyes are in their place, (Picasso's paintings usually show eyes in very funny places) and the colours are very vivid. Do you like it?

Jane Eyre - My latest book

 

Jane Eyre is a plain-looking orphan with a fiery spirit. She is being raised along side her three cousins under the watch of a cruel aunt who despises her. When Jane tries to stand up for herself, she is shipped off to Lowood, a low-end boarding school for the underprivileged. Conditions at the school were so horrible that many of Jane’s classmates died of consumption and other diseases.

After many years at Lowood, Jane decides to venture outside of the academic world and to seek employ as a governess. She is brought unto staff at Thornfield manner, under the peculiar and secretive Mr. Rochester, in order to supervise the master’s young French ward, Adele. Jane meets Rochester under odd circumstances. She continues to be both intrigued and baffled by her master. Eventually, her curiosity turns into feelings of love. The reader will find herself believing that Jane’s affections for Rochester are returned, though there is no clear evidence of how he is feeling.


The book is a romantic novel which will be enjoyed by both teenager girls and older women.  I don't think that the book is of any interest to boys as it looks like today's love stories, thought writtern in a very elaborate language.



 

I am back

I haven't written for a long time but that doesn't mean I'm not here. I just had wonderful summer holidays and they didn't include any internet. I travelled to many places and I had the time of my life. But now school has started and I'm back at my desk ready for a new school year. I love holidays but I also love school (Not the exams, though).

I'll be with you soon friends with all my news. I 've caught a cold and my nose is a bit of runny. Let's hope it's not catchy.

Be back soon

 

Thank you

my teacher in English has written two posts for me so far. You can read them here.     Thank you.


http://ekfrasi-edu.blogspot.com/2011/11/passage-to-india.html

http://ekfrasi-edu.blogspot.com/2011/09/bloggers.html

a passage to india

I haven't blogged lately because my teacher of english gave me a book to read. It is called the passage to india by Forster.

The book is set in India and it tries to explain the relations between the Indians and British colonists. Two British ladies visit India and one Indian doctor suggests a trip to some caves. However, an unfortunate event destroys the excursion and friendship between the Indian doctor and the British ladies is destroyed.

Here is the summary of the novel taken by http://classiclit.about.com/od/passagetoindia/fr/aa_passage.htm


The main incident of the novel is the accusation by an English woman that an Indian doctor followed her into a cave and attempted to rape her. Doctor Aziz (the accused man) is a respected member of the Muslim community in India. Like many people of his social class, his relationship with the British administration is somewhat ambivalent. He sees most of the British as enormously rude, so he is pleased and flattered when an English woman, Mrs. Moore, attempts to befriend him.

Fielding also becomes a friend, and he is the only English person who attempts to help him--after the accusation is made. Despite Fielding's help, Aziz is constantly worried that Fielding will somehow betray him). The two part ways and then meet many years later. Forster suggests that the two can never really be friends until the English withdraw from India.


In total I have to say that it was an interesting book. One can clearly see the feelings of the indians who were conquered by the British. Indians loathe the discipline and cold heart of the British and the British colonists hate the emotions which rule the lives of the Indians. The end is quite sad and as the writer suggests there is no future in the relations between the two nations unless the British leave India.

It took me a lot of time to read it and I can't say that it was very enjoyable but it helped me a lot with my english and it was something different.

You can find some more information here 

and I'm in love!!!

You won't believe this!

I was at this party on Friday night with my friend K. when this guy came and started talking to me.  Everything seemed to be going so well that I gave him my phone number.  But as I was typing the phone, I wasn’t thinking and accidentally put my dad’s number in his phone!  The next morning my dad woke up to a text saying, “I had a great time with you last night at the party!” I got in soooo much trouble, and that guy thought I deliberately tried to blow him off by giving him my dad's number.” K. laughs at the memory of me typing the wrong number and chuckles everytime I call her for advice. She thinks my story is for a laugh but I want to have the last laugh.

HEEEELP!!!!  what can I do? Help or I will be in conflict with my parents for the rest of my school years.