Hope your week is going well, everyone, and you're not working too hard :) . This week I'd like to know what you were like as a kid with food. I don't remember having too many problems with food when I was young. Whatever was in front of me I usually ate, unlike my brothers who hated most vegetables and would go to any length to hide bits of cauliflower or carrot under furniture, which my mother would find a few days later, often covered in mould :( . I do remember finding the taste of tomatoes very strange and it took a long time before I grew to like them. They were an acquired taste. I love them now of course. Beer was another thing I turned my nose up at. When I first tasted it (I must have been about 14) it was so bitter! Now, there's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot summer's day. One thing that I hated and I still hate is pickled beetroot. Absolutely revolting.
What about you?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
TV
I don't have a television myself, or rather I have one but it is not connected to cable or an aerial so I can't watch TV even if I wanted to. I don't miss watching TV as I have plenty of other things to occupy my time. But I do admit I occasionally watch it when I go round to a friend's house when they might already be watching CSI, National Geographic Channel or the news. Thirty minutes to an hour is all I can manage - after this I become a bit like a zombie :) . When I was young (many many years ago) I think I used to watch quite a lot of TV: soap operas, documentaries, sports programmes, music programmes. What a waste of time that was! There was a children's programme called 'Why don't you...', which began with the song 'Why don't you....why don't you.....why don't you go and turn the TV off and do something else instead?'. Very good advice but a bit strange as I wouldn't have been able to watch that programme if I had turned the TV off.
Anyway, what about you? What do you watch?
Paul
Anyway, what about you? What do you watch?
Paul
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Reading
Hello again everyone,
Hope your week's going well and you're not working too hard :)
This week I'd like to know what kind of things you like to read. I wouldn't call myself a prolific reader but I like to read a book every now and again. I can never seem to read at night time, which for me is a time for watching films, cooking and relaxing with friends. Morning is the best time of the day for me. I like a book that makes me think, that is not too easy to read and that I can put down every so often and think about the story. If I am able to read it very quickly then it's not worth reading. I like thrillers and anything with an unexpected twist. Romances, like Barbara Cartland novels, are not for me :) . I really like travel literature, where I can lose myself in a faraway exotic place......tropical island with lots of palm trees.....
Anyway, how about you?
Hope your week's going well and you're not working too hard :)
This week I'd like to know what kind of things you like to read. I wouldn't call myself a prolific reader but I like to read a book every now and again. I can never seem to read at night time, which for me is a time for watching films, cooking and relaxing with friends. Morning is the best time of the day for me. I like a book that makes me think, that is not too easy to read and that I can put down every so often and think about the story. If I am able to read it very quickly then it's not worth reading. I like thrillers and anything with an unexpected twist. Romances, like Barbara Cartland novels, are not for me :) . I really like travel literature, where I can lose myself in a faraway exotic place......tropical island with lots of palm trees.....
Anyway, how about you?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Food shopping
Hello again everyone,
This topic isn't really connected to what were are doing in class but it's been something I've been thinking about recently. Where do you do your food shopping? Do you look at labels to see where the food has come from? I never used to but now after noticing that garlic in Pingo Doce comes from China, asparagus comes from Peru and peppers from Morocco I've started looking for things that are from Portugal - more difficult than it seems! What about you? Do you care about what you eat and where it comes from?
Looking forward to reading your entries
Paul
This topic isn't really connected to what were are doing in class but it's been something I've been thinking about recently. Where do you do your food shopping? Do you look at labels to see where the food has come from? I never used to but now after noticing that garlic in Pingo Doce comes from China, asparagus comes from Peru and peppers from Morocco I've started looking for things that are from Portugal - more difficult than it seems! What about you? Do you care about what you eat and where it comes from?
Looking forward to reading your entries
Paul
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
You and your family
Hello again everyone,
Hope you're all having a good week and you're not working too hard :)
This week's task is to write about you and your family. Are you like certain members of your family or are you different? Are you the black sheep of the family? Do you look like your mother or father (or none of them)? Do you take after any of them? Do you spend a lot of time with them or do you see them only every now and again?
Can't wait to read about you
Paul
Hope you're all having a good week and you're not working too hard :)
This week's task is to write about you and your family. Are you like certain members of your family or are you different? Are you the black sheep of the family? Do you look like your mother or father (or none of them)? Do you take after any of them? Do you spend a lot of time with them or do you see them only every now and again?
Can't wait to read about you
Paul
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Do you like an easy life?
Hi everyone!
Would you like to have the security of an easy life, where everything is predictable and you do the same things day after day and week after week? Or do you like to do something different every now and again to add a bit of spice to your life? Perhaps you do a dangerous sport, or change your partner every now and again :) (only joking!). Would you find life boring if there was no danger anywhere?
As for myself, it's a bit of both. I have to confess that for the most part my life is routine. But saying that, I do like to visit new places every year, try new food and meet new people when the opportunity arises. I think one of the things I would like to change, sometimes, is to leave everyday chores until the last minute, or even do things late, to leave time to do other things, I don't know whether it's a fault, or a British quality, or both (!) but I always tend to be on time for things.
Anyway, what about you?
Would you like to have the security of an easy life, where everything is predictable and you do the same things day after day and week after week? Or do you like to do something different every now and again to add a bit of spice to your life? Perhaps you do a dangerous sport, or change your partner every now and again :) (only joking!). Would you find life boring if there was no danger anywhere?
As for myself, it's a bit of both. I have to confess that for the most part my life is routine. But saying that, I do like to visit new places every year, try new food and meet new people when the opportunity arises. I think one of the things I would like to change, sometimes, is to leave everyday chores until the last minute, or even do things late, to leave time to do other things, I don't know whether it's a fault, or a British quality, or both (!) but I always tend to be on time for things.
Anyway, what about you?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
A film I have seen recently
Hello everyone!
This week is about films and it would be a good idea if you could write about a film you saw recently.
I don't often go to the cinema and it's more usual for me to rent a film from Blockbusters or, if I like it, I might buy one from Amazon. Anyway, a recent one I bought from Amazon was 2046, a Chinese romance, by the director Wong Kar Wai. The cinematography is amazing and it's just like a piece of art, good art. The cast includes some of the most famous Chinese actors and actresses, like Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang and Tony Leung - I don't know whether you've heard of them. The plot is based in the future but it's really about the past and this can make it difficult to understand. It makes you think, though. I'd give it 5 stars.
What about you?
Paul
This week is about films and it would be a good idea if you could write about a film you saw recently.
I don't often go to the cinema and it's more usual for me to rent a film from Blockbusters or, if I like it, I might buy one from Amazon. Anyway, a recent one I bought from Amazon was 2046, a Chinese romance, by the director Wong Kar Wai. The cinematography is amazing and it's just like a piece of art, good art. The cast includes some of the most famous Chinese actors and actresses, like Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang and Tony Leung - I don't know whether you've heard of them. The plot is based in the future but it's really about the past and this can make it difficult to understand. It makes you think, though. I'd give it 5 stars.
What about you?
Paul
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