I admire Michael Jackson because he had a difficult childhood but it's
made him a really generous person. It doesn't mean that someone who
had a bad childhood will be made better, but Michael wouldn't let a child living a
poorchildhood like him.
Michael loved nature, animals and children (friendly speaking - please
no bad joke about it, it's boring... >.< ) .
For example :
The famous song "Billie Jean" was the first video clip of a
black singer on MTV : it was a great event for that time !
All the money that this song brought was given to an association
helping black students for their studies.
He wrote in 1984 the song "We are the world" with Lionel
Ritchie gathering many singers : "USA for Africa" was born.
His amusement park Neverland was free to let poor children and
disabled people who couldn't pay for ithaving
fun like everybody else.
He created an association named "Heal The World Fundation" and
all the money of the Dangerous World Tour was given for it.
(I saw him in concert during that tour. The not so young Mrs P.)
He dreamed of equality and peace around the world, good health for
everybody, and keeping our planet as wonderful as it ever was !
I love Michael Jackson (and his music !!!!!!!!!! <3 ) don't you ? ;)
I precise before starting, I think
it’s stupid to admire someone you have never known. It’s logical to admire our
own family. However, you can have models of life. Mine is Kurt Cobain.
Kurt Cobain was the lead singer and
guitarist of the band Nirvana. He was born in 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington.
Kurt loved punk rock and decides to create a band called Nirvana. They produced
3 studio albums from 1989 to 1993.The
band became famous with one song from the 1991 Album Nevermind which is Smellslike teen spirit, I think you could have heard this once.
Kurt was very different from the other
rock singers of that period. He behaved and thought differently too. He always saw
the negative point of view so, like this you’ll never be disappointed. Yes,
that’s a negative way to see life but I like him because he did everything
by his way. He created his own world made out of music and art like painting
and sculpture, to have an idea of his “world” let’s watch the music video of
“Heart shaped box”. He said that all these images came from his dreams.
Personally I love the movie clip.
But, he killed himself at the age of
27, the 5th April 1994. He was depressive, he couldn’t stand to be
famous and his stomach was sick, he was addicted to drugs and didn’t want his
daughter to take him as model and other personal reasons. Now he belongs ,as the
legend says, to the 27 aged club which includes Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim
Morrison, Brian Jones and Amy Winehouse because they all died at the age of 27.
I would have liked to meet him but it was too
late. But I gave myself an idea of what he was by books and videos but he might
be different of what I imagine him. The trap is with celebrities you see only
one side of their personality and in general it’s the commercial side of the
entertainment industry.
Want to know more about an American young woman's view on our part of France and why your two hands come handy (lol!) when you're from Michigan?!
Last Tuesday the Extra English 1st Year class invited Ashley Gordon, for an interview.
She's from Detroit, Michigan and it's her second time in France (she was here before, to study in Orleans when she was 21) and now she's an English Language Assistant in our school.
She has launched an English club where pupils can learn to bake cookies, play games like Taboo, and watch cool TV series like How I Met your Mother.
She likes our school and the pupils (and the teachers too)
When she introduced Mighigan to us, she put her hands up this way:
She explained the particularity of Mighigan which is composed of 2 separate peninsulas that look roughly like 2 hands:
We also learnt that Special K cereals are from Michigan too...
She has traveled a lot (to Italy; England; Ireland; Israel...).
She doesn't know what job she wants to have yet but she knows she wants to go on speaking French...
She has been to Paris at least 20 times and she loves it there but she finds it exhausting!
She also told us that American people have clichés about us: they imagine us wearing a beret, a Blue and white stripped T-shirt and holding a baguette (and a Camembert cheese!)
Ashley is close to her family and she misses her nephew (Bradley) and her dog (Rocky) a lot.
She's got 2 sisters and one brother. One of her sisters is an artist, the other one studies Human Resources and her brother is an obstetrician.
Her parents came to France to visit her for Christmas this schoolyear and the last time she was in France.
It was very nice to interview Ashley, who has so willingly answered our questions. Thank you again, and know that you will be missed when you leave.
