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Hello. Sometimes, I've the same problem but I know how to make it less often.
First, when you go to bed and don't succeed to go sleeping, let's say that all you've done in the day has importance and not only what you do just before going to sleep.
Stop all cafe and tea after noon.
That's sure your body need to have exercice but not before going to bed, it's too late. For me, I run for 10 km every saturday morning for example.
Do not have diner too late, at 19h is great so you have finish your digestion. Try to eat food luke vegetables or some that are easy for digestion.
Remember the worse thing to do for not thinking about something is to try to not thinking about it ! It's impossible ! Your brain is an engine for thinking. You can't switch it off. So, in my case, I've follow classes for relaxation therapy (in French, sophrologie). It's great ! I've learned not to stop thinking but to not follow my ideas, to let them coming, no catching them and let them going away and vanish.
One thing more is that you probably go to sleep to early. For me, I felt very sleepy at 21:00 but if I go to bed, sure, I woke up at 2:00 until 5:00 and be very sleepy all the morning.
Because I find some evenings annoying, I go to bed early but in my case, it's a bad idea. So now, I try to watch TV every evening and that works. I go to bed later with a story with an happy end like when I was a child (no programming stuff, I'm not at work) and sleep one good night and wake up in good mood at 6:00.
That's my own experience.
Have good nights !
0 votedNovember 9, 20150- Organising regular meeting to improve a language skills I'm a French man of nearly 50 years old. I travel a little so I've rarely occasions to practice other languages. But I always think to be opened to other cultures is very important so I want to be more and more fluent in English and Spanish languages. I think it is almost ten years, a friend of mine knowing my desire to be more fluent in languages invites me to join an informal group of friends that meet once a month in a café in the downtown of Nantes. It was a Spanish group with half of this people as native speakers. There was only one rule. We can speak about everything but only in Spanish. At the beginning, i found conversations very hard to understand. Despite I've been studying Spanish language at school for 9 years and being in Spain for 5 months, I quite understand nothing that was said. I though native speakers spoke very quickly without doing efforts to speak distinctively. I never spoke at the beginning because the time I need to understand what has been said and what I can add, the conversation has changed of subject ! It was so frustrating. But I stay and continue to come to the meetings. Several months later, I was able to follow what non native speakers were saying because they spoke slower and with the same accent as me but I was still saying so few words. And, one day, there was something that was unlock in me. I started to participate actively and spoke severals sentences. I felt very happy because I reached the point where I was able to understand what was said and to reply with new ideas. My friends were so surprised that I didn't spoke so bad. They were pleased too. I notice that I did a lot of mistakes and that I didn't use correct words but it didn't matter. The meaning of what I wanted to said was quite well understood. This is the mist important. And, often my mistakes were the ocasions of funny moments and sometimes of laughting ones. Surely, finding Italki communities give me, and you, to follow a similar method I used. And, with the help of Skype, we can easily create a small group of people that meet together once a month, once a week. Why not ? Only one rule : speak about everything but only in English for the first part then in French in the second part. Please, contact me if this idea pleases to you. Bye.November 8, 201530
Halloween
Coucou! C'était Cela fait longtemps depuis mon dernier post ici.
Le weekend dernier, c'était Halloween! Aux Bahamas, il ça n'existe pas vraiment. Oui, un peu de gens quelques personnes le célèbrent chez eux elles avec quelques amis mais ce n'est pas très courant. Cependant, ici, au Royaume-Uni, il semble que les gens se deguisent à la moindre occasion n'exigent qu'une raison de se déguiser : les fêtes d'anniversaires, Noël, les fêtes au travail...n'importe quoi! Et, cette année, j'ai participé.
En fait, il y a quelques année à la fac, que j'ai participé aussi. J'étais malade donc j'avaits beaucoup de paquets de soupe autour de dans ma chambre et je les ai attachés à ma ceinture. Puis, j'ai fait une petite casquette d'infirmière en papier pour finir mon costume et voilà! J'étais un super-héros pour les malades comme moi. Étrange? Peut-être. Effrayant? Pas du tout. Efficace? Absolument.
Bref, cette année j'avais un plan prévu de faire un effort! Dans tous les cas, je n'aime pas que les femmes soient prévu attendues (par les autres et eux-mêmes) comme devant d'être sexy. On doit être : une chatte noire sexy, une infirmière sexy (et saignant peut-être), une zombie sexy, etc. Nul.
Cette année, je voulais être un hibou(!) avec les « plumes », un masque et les ailes (tous en feutre pour que le costume soit solide et chaud). J'ai vu plusieurs tutoriels de bricolage et je n'avais besoin que de tissu. Malheureusement, mon copain (qui n'était pas prêt en avance!) nous fait marcher autour dans les magasins pendant si longtemps que je n'auraisavais pas plus beaucoup de temps pour faire construire mon costume d'hibou.
J'avais ai dû penser vite! J'ai acheté une paire de taies d'oreiller pour réaliser ma nouvelle idée...
Chez nous, j'ai couperé deux cercles en tissu jaune (qui j'avais déjà à cause d'un projet précédent) et, avec ma machine à coudre, j'ai je les ai cousus au milieu des taies d'oreiller. Pouvez-vous deviner ce que j'ai fait?
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J'étais un œuf! :D Voyez la photo ci-dessous prise avant partant le depart de notre apart'.
Encore, oui, ce n'est pas effrayant. En fait, mon copain était le tueur en série, Patrick Batemen (le personnage principal d'American Psycho), alors je le j'ai trouveé amusant qu'il était soit accompagné par un œuf hihi
Mais, à mon avis, ce n'est pas important si on est effrayant ou pas même-si c'est Halloween. J'étaits un peu unique (je ne voyais pas un d'autre œuf!) et nous passions une soirée pleine de bonheur avec quelques amis.
Ensuite, j'attends ma fête préférée : Noël!
:)0 votedNovember 7, 20152- Let's have a walk in the centertown of Nantes With near 600.000 inhabitants in the city and the suburbs, Nantes has the faciliies of a big town but not its problem. In comparison with bigger city, Nantes seems to be a big village. Nowadays, the centertown is around a large street whose name is "Cour des 50 otages". Two lines of tramways pass there (numbers 2 and 3) and cross the first one which number is number one and was built in 1986. So, there is a lot of people that come there for going to work or to have a walk or to do shopping. It depends of the hour of the day ! Let us have a walk around "Le château de la Duchesse Anne de Bretagne" (the castle of the duchess Anne of Bretania). It is at 500 m from our start point. It is a fortified castle and was built in the years 1500 in its most actual form. But the first castle on this place was started to be build in 1207. It was Anne de Bretagne which marry Charles VIII then Louis XII that give the actual form of the castle. She was well known for being at the origin the unification between France and Bretania when she marry Charles VIII, king of France, at the castle of Langeais in december 1491 when she was 15 years old. The walkway on the ramparts is free for visiting and is pleasant. It is approxmatively 500 m long and give the impression to go back in the past. There is a restaurant in the tower of the old dungeon which which name "oblivion" (Les Oubliettes) must not afraid you ! The site is loaded with history. There is also an interesting museum and an ancient building used for exposition. Near the castle, there is the cathedral, symbol of the religion power. Between the castle and the cathedral, the is a large empty place named "Cour Saint-André". And between it, and the carhedral, the garden if the cathedral, a small one, hard to find but so romantic with a beautiful tree in the center a large circle of grass. In the start of my adult life, I've rent a little appartment near this place and it was very stressless to take a walk in these places.November 7, 201551
- A beautifull city, Nantes In the West side of France, the biggest city is Nantes. But it is not so big that we can lost in it. There isn't motoways like inside Marseille. There is only one centertown and it is pleasant to walk there. The river La Loire cross an other one L'Erdre that is smaller but more beautifull. The two rivers make a structure for the town. Many people do jogging on the Erdre's riversides. It is possible to go on the top of the only one tower of Nantes which name is "Tour Bretagne" and is 104 meters high. There, we can see all the town. We see very well La Loire and quite well L'Erdre and the bridge "La Beaujoire" and the well known stadium with the same name for playing soccer at the East side. If you look at the in the West-South direction, you'll see at the thin radio antenna that is twice higher than the tower Bretania. Then, going to the South-East side, you follow the river La Loire and you'll find the airport. Sure, the time you're standing, there'll be at least one airplane landing. If the weather is clear with no humidity in the air (no rain, no fog but no heat that makes condensation), you'll probably see in the West direction the two "pilier" (piles ?) of the bridge of Saint-Nazaire which are tall. It is at 60 km from there, in the sea direction. Then, if you look to the North, there is only one construction to see, as high as a tower with 27 floors but that is a block whith one thousand appartements and a lot of offices, Le Sillon de Bretagne. But, the better to see in the North side is near the foot of the tower, with the (quartiers) that can be identified and the tramway that pass at the foot of the Tour Bretagne and go at the foot of Le Sillon de Bretagne, 8 km far away. The top of the tower has a café which name is Le Nid (The Nest). People like going the, specialy young people like students. The is a very long bird inside the café whose neck seems to be 25 m long ! If you are aware during the walk arround the café, you will see at pictures of fallen eggs on the buildings roofs ! Surprise, it seems that some bird's eggs has fallen from the roof of the café at the 32th floor (;-)) There is an active cultural life in Nantes where Jules Vern was born. The town give the money for the project "Les machines de l'île" (the island's machines) that seems to came directly from Jules Verne mind. So, I like this town wich I live for 43 years now. It is pleasant to walk is the street by day or by night. There is also a night life...November 5, 201510
introducing myself
My French is way to basic for this, so I used a translator, but I'm trying to get a introduction that I can memorize and use to help me start talking more. If anyone could help me fix the grammar in this, that would be great :)
Mon nom est Rachel , je serai étudiante de troisième cycle à l'Université de Georgetown partir de cet automne, où je vais étudier les relations latino-américaines . Je veux travailler dans la Défense et la politique de recherche pour promouvoir une meilleure politique étrangère américaine en Amérique latine.
Je vis avec mon copain à Arlington , en Virginie, près de Washington DC. J'aime vivre près de la ville, car il y a des choses intéressantes à faire et des endroits où aller .
J'ai une grande famille. Mes parents sont divorcés et ils sont tous deux remariés . Du côté de mon père, j'ai un demi-frère, une demi-sœur et un demi-frère. La femme de mon père est coréenne. Du côté de mon père , ma mère se remarie à un homme américain. J'ai aussi une sœur, Ruth, qui est l'une de mes meilleurs amis .
J'aime voyager. Je vécu en Argentine pendant six mois, et au Honduras pour un mois auparavant. Pendant que j'y étais , j'ai étudié l'espagnol , mais j'ai aussi appris ce qu'il en est de la politique et de la culture de l'Amérique latine, ce qui est la raison pour laquelle j'ai décidé d'étudier les relations latino-américaines à l'école d'études supérieures.0 votedNovember 4, 20150
