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Theo Black
The alarm's bell cut through the silence of stale darkroom, audible from a phone which was based on a wooden nightstand. Near it was an old, squeaking with slightest touches bed, on which lay, seemed dead body. The young woman lay around in bed, hugging her toy's shark. Seemed like nothing could ruin her sleep, except by ringing a mobile device. When the sound reached her ears, she jumped up, starting to look around. Perhaps, that action was completely nonsensical, because she was in her house, in the place, which is called safe. But not for her. Every time, when she wakes up, she automatically does the same actions: looking around, sniffing, doing all to make sure that she is out of danger. Theo is used to doing that since her terrible past.
March 7, 2021
English and Japanese
I write this entry after prewriting it in Japanese for the first time. I guess it's more difficult to translate Japanese to English than just to write in English. The word orders of Japanese and English are almost reversed, so it's confusing to think in Japanese and English at the same time. Many people tend to read English sentences from the back and translate them into Japanese when they start to learn English in junior high school. However, it takes a lot of time and it's useless when listening to English. I think I had to study for ages to understand English as it is.
March 7, 2021
Journal
Today was Sunday, and the weather was beautiful. I could feel that Spring has finally come.
Today, I went to Itaewon to meet my college friend, J. Itaewon is a district in Korea where many foreigners reside. Because of the population that frequent the area, it has a unique, hip atmosphere to it. If you walk around the streets in Itaewon, you soon find yourself surrounded by artsy-looking people in very creative and fashionable garments. It’s quite a different experience from taking a stroll in other populated places, like Gangnam or Hongdae.
My friend and I sat in a cafe, and each engaged in our work separately for several hours. Then we took out some salad from a vegan restaurant.
It is kind of far from where I live, but I really like this area. Visiting the places there is always refreshing.
I should come again soon, to grab some Kebab next time^^
March 7, 2021
March 7, 2021
Eating meat: Is it worth it?
Yesterday I was at home eating my meal, when my mother comes and see me throwing a little of the food out. She decided ask me:
"what is the point of get vegan if you are throwing food out?"
I didn't understand the meaning of that doubt. Maybe just a try of convence me to get out of the veganism, but I wondered for myself:
"how many food do I waste and how many food do a person who eat food waste?"
So I decided to do the math.
A cow eats about 55 pounds of food everyday and live for 30 months till the
slaughter. If we make 55 x 30 x 30, we will get the number of 49500 pounds of food.
After 30 months a cow will reach the weight of 660 pounds, after the
slaughter just 50% of the weight will be available, so we will have just 330 pounds of food. That means 49170 pounds of food will be wasted.
A american eat about 273 pounds of meat per year. What is 82% of 330 (the weight of meat we get after throwing out 49500 pounds of food), so per year a american eat just 82% of one cow. If we make 82% of 49500 pounds, we will get the number 40590 pounds, minus 273 pounds (the food we didn't waste) equals 40317 pounds of food throw out!
Now, a human eat about 4 pounds of food per day, times the whole year, equals 1460 pounds of food.
So, if I throw out all the food I should eat I were wasting 1460 pounds a year, what means 38857 pounds less than a meat eater!
I am not a mathematician nor a native english speaker, so maybe the way I expressed myself and the math was not the best, but is a north to see how eat meat is not worth.
March 7, 2021
The best present ever
Since I was a little girl, I love to read. For me it was always easy to get access to books. My mother and father red a lot, and they oftenly had for us (my sister and I) the newest books for kids.
I never gave up on books. As I grew up, I found the way to keep reading. The books became my friends, and I felt strong and happy if I had one in my purse. I think about it now, and it's almost ridiculous. I carried a book even if I knew I did'nt had the time to open it.
But, in the last years, I had to shorten my time with them. I missed my reading a lot, but other responsabilities came on, and priorities are important in life. However, even if one can survive without a hobbie... it's truly important to make the time and keep doing things that make you smile.
A few years ago, my sister suggested to me that I should buy an e-book, and read again. And I confess that I felt an inmediate rejection to the idea. How on earth an electronic device ever take the place of the real thing? I couldn't imagine myself holding one. So, my life continous with the urgent things demanding the time of the important ones.
It was until a friend of mine, sent me an e-mail with a book, in PDF. I was "forced" to read it on my laptop. And it was uncomfortable and unpractical... but the book was something else: deep, interesting, and surprising.
And, that's when I realize that the magic of a book goes far beyond its appearance. A few months after I red this particular book, my husband gave me an e-book as a present... the best present of my life.
March 7, 2021
El club de libro en español
Hoy estaba mirando el sitio web de la biblioteca y vi que hay un club de libro en español que reúne cada mes por videollamada, y sólo se tiene que mandar un email a la líder para unirse al grupo. ¿Crees que debería este email en inglés o en español?
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Hola XXXXX,
Hoy vi por el sitio web que hay un club de libro en español virtual y me gustaría aprender más sobre lo que consisten los reuniones y cómo participar.
Me gustaría practicar mi habilidades orales y conocer a otros miembros de la comunidad.
Un saludo,
Cordero
March 6, 2021
March 6, 2021
¿Colonizar Marte? (1/2)
Recientamente, he mirado algunas videos de vulgarización científica en YouTube. Uno de sus temas era la colonización del sistema solar, una cosa que aún pertenece al ambito de la ciencia ficción, pero que podría hacerse realidad en las próximas décadas.
Casí todos los proyectos de colonización espacial se tratan de Marte, y no es difícil entender porque: es la planeta más próxima de nosotros. Sin embargo, si organizaramos el concurso del nuevo hogar para la humanidad, no sería muy probable que Marte lo consiguiría. En resumen, Marte es un gran desierto steril, sin atsmofera ni fuentes de energía, al contrario de otras cuerpos celestes como las lunas de Saturno, donde hay literalmente mares de combustible. Seguro, hace muy frio en Marte, aunque al lado del ecuador, las temperaturas son bastante agradables para que humanos puedan sobrevivir.
Marte tiene otros problemas. Por ejemplo, no da ninguna protección contra las radiaciones solares muy nocivas, porque Mars no tienen ningun campo magnético. Además, por la gravidad más debil de Mars, nuestros huevos podrían restractarse, debilitándo nuestros cuerpos también. ¡Naturalmente, no hablo de todos los problemas psicológicos que sucederen con el sentimiento de solitud en una planete ubicada en más o menos 55 miliones de kilometros!
(Acabaré de hablar de Marte en una publicación futura, ya que mi texto está bastante largo)
March 6, 2021
March 6, 2021
Percy Jackson
« Percy Jackson » est une série des livres très populaire aux États-Unis. Je l’ai récemment commencé à lire en français. C’était un de mes préférés série des livres de mon jeunesse.
La série est basé sur le mythologie Grec. Les dieus ont des enfants avec des mortels. Ces enfants sont demi-dieu, une moitié Dieu et une moitié humaine. Ils ont des pouvoirs magique grâce à leur héritage. Les caractères principaux sont les demi-sangs qui sont chassés par des monstres, alors ils vivent dans un camp spécial. Ils ont envoyé sur des missions, comme sauver le monde.
Le principale caractère, Percy Jackson, est le fils de Poséidon, le Dieu de la mer. Il a beaucoup d’aventures.
La série est bonne écrit et est encore agréable, même après des années. L’histoire est amiable et engageant.
March 6, 2021
about medical drama TV series
Among many medical drama TV series I would like to write which I like and why.
First of all, there is « Doctor House » which the main actor is Hugh Laurie. The story tells us the professionnal life of the king of the sarcasm, a brilliant doctor but also a kind of teasing man, a man which is always on the border line between a dark mysanthropy and a very specific love of humankind...
Different is the serie « Nurse Jacky ». Here we are following the complicated life of a nurse, Jacky, character played by Eddy falco, marvellous actress discovered in the Mob serie « The Sopranos ».
Jacky is a brave woman, totally committed to the patients, mother of two pretty daughters. Her life is complicated because she is also a great lover, cut between her husband and other men. But her huge issue could be her addiction to the novocain and other drugs. Obviously, it could be too much for this very nice person The serie gives us a delicate, tricky balance between real comedy and drama. I liked it !
With « The Knick » we are invited to get in the History of the modern surgery. The story, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and with Clive Owen as main actor tales us the story of a doctor who, in the beginning of the twentieth century, is going to make great, amazing discoveries in medical science especially in surgery. Among many discoveries and amazing inventions he was going to create the tools which will save the pregnant women when they were in great issues. Unfortunately he is addict in drugs. In fact, here we find again, I could say always, the same theme in medical series. In « The Knick », the pleasure comes also from the description of the twentieth society. It's a medical story, a story about blood, flesh, love, violence. I have always been sorry about the fact that only two seasons were directed by Soderbergh. Maybe in the future could we get the pleasure of a sequel ?
Finally, the last serie that I had had the pleasure of discovery is « New Amsterdam », story who takes place in an hospital in New York, nowadays. The distinctive characteristics of the story is 1) that it happens in a emergency department and 2) that the chief doctor had decided to welcome every patients whatever would be the cost of the interventions. From that point of view it's really fascinating for a French man to see how works, or not, the medical american system. It's fictionnal, of course, but nevertheless like many series « New Amsterdam » is realy, totally addictive ! So I'm waiting the season two with a great imatience !
March 6, 2021
March 6, 2021
China hasst Bitcoin
Circa sechzig Prozent aller Krypto-mining passiert in China. Acht Prozent von diesem Teil passiert in die Innere Mongolei Region, wo Strom sehr billig ist, aber das wird bald ändern. China kündigte ein Krypto-miningverbot in der Region an, unter Berufung auf Umweltgründe und Energieeinsparung. Bitcoin zu handeln in irgendeiner Weise in China ist schon verboten, und deshalb ist das neue Verbot wirklich keine Überraschung. Es ist ja nicht so, dass China Kryptowährung hasst, was es wirklich hasst, ist die Idee der Dezentralisierung, die damit einhergeht. Das Land hat Pläne, seine eigene Kryptowährung in Zukunft zu implementieren, den digitale Yuan, aber alles wird natürlich strikt reguliert und die Regierung wird von allen Transaktionen wissen. Am Ende wird es der KPCh nur mehr Autorität und noch mehr Kontrolle über politische Dissidenten geben.
March 6, 2021
Dziesięć zdań
1) Amerykańscy astronauci doleciali do Księżyca w 1969 roku.
2) Dzisiaj zjadłem jabłko.
3) Rak to albo zwierzę albo choroba.
4) Jesienią liście spadają z drzew.
5) Rekin to morskie zwierzę, którego wiele ludzi się boi.
6) Brzoskwinia ma słodki smak i skórę jak aksamit.
7) Studenci medycyny uczą się przez wiele lat, nim staną się lekarzami.
8) Oboje kobiet i mężczyzn nosi spodnie, a tylko kobiety noszą spódnicy.
9) Słoń to wielkie zwierzę, które mieszka w Afryce i Azji, i ma bardzo dziwny nos nazwany „trąbą”.
10) Mówi się, że gdy komety spadają, powinno pomyśleć życzenie, a gdy mówisz do kogoś życzenie, się nie spełni.
March 6, 2021
Danser
Je n'ai jamais été un grand danseur. En fait, j'avais beaucoup de honte (et je l'ai encore) quand mes tantes m'invitaient à danser « salsa ». Ces jours je ne suis pas non plus un grand danseur, mais je peux faire quelques mouvements sans me voir trop ridicule. Je crois que danser dans ces jours est plus facile, tout le monde connais ce « TikTok mouvements» et les répètent en chaque chanson. Mais quand il s'agit de suivre les pas d'un rythme plus difficile ou d'improviser, je crois que ma génération l'aura mauvaise.
Un de mes projets pour cette année, c'est de m'inscrire dans un cours de danse. Je crois que le tango et sexy et très amusant de danser avec quelqu'un... mais, j'ai besoin d'un partenaire effectivement. Peut-être j'inviterais une amie à l'apprendre avec moi, ça serait une option intéressante pour améliorer notre relation. Deux personnes qui dansent ensemble, restent ensemble !
March 6, 2021
Müde
Ich habe keine Lust mehr zu denken. Ich will einfach nicht mehr an jede einzelne Dinge oder jedes einzelne Detail denken. Ich will das Leben genießen, ohne jeden Moment uber jeden Quatsch, der bei mir passiert, nachzudenken. Es nervt einfach and ich bin deshalb gestresst.
Es wäre so schön, ein freies Leben führen zu können.
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March 6, 2021
March 6, 2021
Svara på insändaren om snus.
Kära "en fräschare vardag".
Du skriver att man borde förbjuda snus i kollektivtraffiken. Jag är inte särskilt säker på att det är rättvis att begränsa folks regeringsskyddade frihet. Varför ska någon få bestämma över vad man gör på bussen om de inte skadar någon? Du säger att det luktar illa. Okej då, ska vi förbjuda också surströmming? Vad sägs om tonfisk? Bannnlyses det också? Får vi alls äta mat som luktar? Vad händer om någon känner sig irriterad av att folk pratar på kollektivtraffiken, behöver vi alla sitta tystna på tåget? Nej, att pendla tar inte så mycket tid av den genomsnittliga person. Gradvis blir man faktiskt van med obehaget.
Tilläggaför det, snus är rökfri. Man blir inte sjuk av att anda in snus. Att man gillar lukten av snus eller inte handlar om personligt preferens. Ett förvånansvärt flertal gillar lukten av bensin och rök. Så det betyder att du är antagligen av fåtalet som avskyr snus. Det är ganska oresonerade att reglerna behöver ändras för alla bara för en person som har en märkligt hat för snus.
Snus är en viktig del av svenska kulturen. X skriver att hen tycker att äktenskap kommer ökas om snus motverkas, men jag håller inte riktigt med. Snus ger mycket glädje till folk och hjälper dem slappna av. Det finns kanske hundra anledningar till varför svenskarna gifter sig inte så mycket som i det förflutna. Dessutom är det inte ens en dålig sak.
Du har rätt i att spotta ut snus på gatan är verkligen ofräscht. Kanske borde det faktiskt förbjuds. En bättre idé vore att uppmuntra folk att inte äta mat som luktar illa eller att inte ta upp snusdosor. Men vi kan inte förbjuda det helt och hållet, det är inte rättvis och det är svårt att stoppa folk att göra vad dem vill.
March 6, 2021
Russisch
I liebe Russisch. Ich glaube, dass es eine wunderbare Sprache ist, weil es so schön klingt. Viele Leute haben die Ansicht, dass es sehr krass klingt. Das stimmt nicht. Als ich jünger war, konnte ich Russisch sprechen, aber leider habe ich alles vergessen. Das macht mich sehr traurig, aber ich hoffe, dass ich in Zukunft wieder lernen werde, russisch zu sprechen. Dann werde ich nicht nur Deutsch, sondern auch Russisch sprechen können.
March 6, 2021
Frasi 3.6.21
È quasi passato un anno da quando mi sono ributtata sull’italiano.
In quest’anno ho fatto dei progressi enormi per quanto riguarda il mio livello di italiano.
L’arabo è difficile perché é una lingua molto diversa della mia madrelingua e non ci sono delle parole affini a qualsiasi lingua che ho già studiato.
Invece, non devo impegnarmi molto per imparare lo spagnolo, siccome assomiglia molto l’italiano. Posso partire in quarta guardando subito delle serie tv per imparare la lingua d'una maniera informale.
March 6, 2021
Diary: NFT (pt.2)
Several weeks ago, I wrote a article about NFTs, which is the first time I saw these strange letters. It was because Mike Shinoda, one of the Linkin Park members, used NFT to sold a short video - this kind of item can also be called cryptoart. It shocked me that Mike said that Linkin Park wanted to try to sell goods through blockchain a few years ago. But fans aren't ready for it. Nobody's going to buy it. When the time comes this year, he begin to try. And recently I have seen more and more things about NFTs. The first band (sorry, I forgot the name) released an album through NFT. The music production sub on Reddit also saw a lot of people asking questions about NFT. I read two articles about NFTs tonight, one claiming that NFTs are a dangerous trap, and the other discussing environmental issues brought by cryptoart.
March 6, 2021
Boca a Boca
Já acabei Boca a Boca, uma série brasileira que está disponível no Netflix. (Não se preocupe: eu não dou spoilers nenhuns.) A série se passa na pequena cidade de Progresso onde a maiora ocupação é a criação de gado. Apesar do seu nome, esta cidade é conservadora e isolada, que é uma tensão central na narrativa.
Há uma doença misteriosa que ameaça os adolescentes da cidade. É transmitida pelo beijo e rouba as suas vítimas de todas sensações e emoções. A propagação da doença é fomentada pelas festas raves na beira da cidade onde os jovens beijam-se como qualquer meia-orgia.
Esta série envolve muitas temas: as diferenças de classe, as redes sóciais, a homofobia, e a pandemia. A narrativa faz muitas perguntas das quais não todas estão resolvidas no fim. Eu achei-a muito interessante e espero ver uma segunda temporada.
March 6, 2021
6. Marz - Helene Fischer
Ich habe HF das erste Mal auf YouTube gehört. Die Video is sehr dumm und kitschig deswegen habe ich auch gedacht dass das Lied dumm ist.
Aber habe ich nochmal gehort ohne dem Video und eigentlich ich finde das Lied war sehr gut. Sie kann sehr gut singen und die Melodie war auch sehr gut.
Ich habe vor dieser Stunde Helene Fischer und Tom Jones, SexBomb auch geschaut - wow sie hat wirklich ein schöne Stimmer.
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