The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 - Press Release

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 - Press Release

The pupil formerly known as YaYaTamTam...

Hello guys !
 Let's introduce myself. 
I'm Elise alias Honey. 
Last year I was Yaya Tamtam but I changed, it was so long. I prefer Honey, it's cutest :) 

I am in terminal L and I'm 16. 

I love reading books and listening to music. 
I listen to several kind of music: reggae, a bit of rap etc... 

I want to talk about a book that I really appreciate, I read it twice. 

 It's "Les yeux jaunes des crocodiles". 

Don't judge this book by its cover and title. 

It is about life, love, work and maybe philosophy. 

 It's the story of a woman very simple, she lacks self-confidence, she lost her husband, her sister is so rich and beautiful, she writes a book, there is a big liar, she falls in love, she is lost in her mind, her daughters grow up, she talks to the stars, her mother is cruel. 

She could be anyone in real life. 

This book is funny, touching, sometimes sad, but mainly it is hoping. 

Katherine Pancol (the author) wrote 2 books for the hangers-on who are so good too: "La valse lente des tortues" and "Les écureuils de Central Park sont tristes le dimanche". 

Anyway, I can say that there are one of my favorites books.
 I recommended them for people who aren't scared by 600 and 900 pages  books  :p

   ~Honey~

We welcome Primrose...

Hi,

         First of all I am Primrose ( or Prim ). 

I think most of you already suppose I took this pseudonyme from "The Hunger Games" series.

 I chose it because, in the books, Prim seems to be the sweetest girl in the world, and I am nothing near sweet. I love what is dark, and she is just so light, almost shinny.

I live with my mother, sisters and brother in Bourges. 

We moved in almost two years ago; before that I lived near Paris. 

I like it here because there are not too many people, I enjoy the silence when I can reach it.

         I have a real passion for  reading and writing. I wanted to become a writer when I was a young girl but I changed my mind growing up, I became more realistic. I suppose.

I think I love reading because it makes me forget everything else, only a few people can understand how much it is good to just read, and stop thinking. I love escaping reality sometimes, just get myself lost in a world which is not mine, even if it only exists on paper.

This article is for my English class so I guess I will write about a British book. One of my favorite is "The picture of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde. It is one of the most amazing British novel for me.

         It is the story of Dorian Grey, a wealthy young man who tries to discover the world by himself. He is really charming and attractive, but he doesn't even know himself and that's what I think is making him so different.

Suddenly he met a man who changed his life, forever.

This older friend made him explore dangerous ways into decadence. Drug, alcohol, prostitutes, simply every sins he knew. He enjoyed it, like young people who are too curious to stop discovering new pleasures. But the pain and scars he inflicted  on himself didn't affect his body, only his soul, which he sold to the devil and got stocked in a picture of him to keep his body young, forever.

I won't tell the end, I don't want to spoil it, but I recommand that book, it is a really beautiful piece of work, and Wilde was just a genius !

 To finish my presentation, just a little quote from my favorite German play, "Faust" by Goethe.

" The deed is everything, the glory nothing. "

Prim

Somethingintheway is back...

Hey everybody !!!!!

I’m somethingintheway ( in link with the song of Nirvana) I’m 19 , I’m here for the third year because I'm repeating a year .

Since this summer I moved in Bourges next to the Auron lake.

I have some hobbies , I’m a volunteer fireman andI spend the majority of my time with headphones listening to music: I listen a lot to rock, metal and folk metal .

One of my favorite band is Motörhead .

 [this is a song I particularly enjoy! Mrs P.]

 I like to read: my favorite books is from Maxime Chattam ,it’s “autre monde”, and I really like TV series and movies .

This time I chose to present you my favorite  movie ,it is based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk : it’s the story of Jack who just hopes for one thing  : escape from his monotonous daily life. 

He will meet Tyler Durden a soap seller with an anarchist and disturbing philosophy. 

Together they decide to create a thing with eight rules who will be organized all around the world .

But this movie has a list of rules which prohibit to say what it is and it would be sad to break the rules  ,  so I will give you the rules and maybe you will find what is the name of this movie:

- The first rule is, you do not talk about it

- The second rule is, you do not talk about it

- The third rules is, if someone yells stop, goes limp, top out the fight is over

- The fourth rules is, only two guys to a fight

- The fith rules is, one fight a time

- The sixth rules is, no shirts no shoes

- The seventh rules is, fights will go on as they have to

- The eighth and final rules is , if it’s your first night you have to fight .

[Eh! That sounds like a game! Mrs P.]

I hope my article appeals to you , don’t hesitate to leave a comment (please !!! it will help you and me to get some points cause it’s difficult to get extra credits )

See you soon.

Somethingintheway

Sometimes, we just don't know what to do...

Shake, on football, friends, and food...

Hi everybody and welcome to the news readers of this blog ! 

My name on the blog is Shake. 

I was 17 years old  2 months ago and this year, I do my last year in Alain Fournier high school I hope.

 I have got 2 sisters and I might speak about them but it's not the most important otherwise my article will be too long !

 I love to play my favorite sport with my friend which is  football, during a few hours  a week.

But there isn't also football in my life, there are 2 other things whick are very important for me :

–                    Already friends, because for me, in high school, we want to just have fun when we don't have class for example.

–                    Just one word to understand me : FOOD. I think I'm not alone to eat between meals. 

I'm very greedy of nutella for example. I'm a person who is rarely replete.

Now I introduce a group of metal music which is SlipKnot.

 I love their kind of music. 

There are 9 members in the group : Sid Wilson (DJ), Paul Gray (bassist who died in 2010), Joey Jordison (drums), Chris Fehn (drums), James Root (guitar), Craig Jones (sampling), Shawn Crahan (drums), Mick Thomson (guitar) and Corey Taylor (singer).

This group have a feature.

 Nobody or almost have seen their faces because they have masks in their lives or video clip. 

The kind of music that they play is based on the skill, for example Joey Jordison, during a drum solo, plays really fast, and for me it's the best drums player in the world ! 

Thanks for reading                                                      

                                                                                     Shake

Carter loves scary series...

Hi, it's Carter !

I was already here last year in Extra English with Ms P. 

I have written some articles and now for the new ( and last I hope) year, we must start with a personal cult movie, TV series, song or anything else.

I'm a huge TV series fan, so, I've decided to speak about a serie, but … I love so much series so that's hard to choose one ! First I wanted to speak about one of my three favorites series: NCIS, ER or Dawson's Creek. 

But they are famous so I've been thinking about others I really love but which we don't hear much like The Tudors, The Walking Dead, Orphan Black, Bates Motel...

And I choose Bates Motel !

 I don't know if this motel reminds you of something but it's really famous. 

Bates Motel is a new TV series about Norman Bates life, the psychopath killer in Psycho, the famous Alfred Hitchcock's movie. 

In the serie we see Norman when he is a teenager and we see his strange relationship with his mother Norma. 

This serie turns around murder, love and strange relations. 

There is only one thing which shocked me, in this serie they've got phones whereas in the movie ( when Norman is an adult ) phones didn't exist.

I really advise you to watch this series which is really good. 

The actors are amazing and Norman is really strange …

Thanks for reading !

     

  -Carter-