#4 Discovering new culture (and ourselves) by food Lately I’ve been studying food through social sciences. I’ve learned many interesting facts and it helped me to understand our relationship with food. As a dietitian, you really need to fully understand the person that comes to you for advice. You cannot say to a French person that he needs to stop eating cheese. You’ll touch his identity as a French person. Claude Fischler, French sociologist, explained it by his concept « the principle of incorporation » . Indeed, food is the only things (and the medicine) that is incorporating to our body and deeply in our soul. Think about the food’s restrictions on multiple religion, it shows the power of food to change or maintain the identity of someone. In some tribes or in our modern society, when you eat the meat of another animal, you take his strength and abilities. Your food contains a story and many symbols. Personally, one of the things that I enjoy the most when I am travelling is the culinary culture and the food of the country. You can see the different habits of eating, smell and taste new flavours. I love that. But I can understand that it might stress out some person and you might go to the same restaurants as there are in your country. For example, I’ve travelled with a friend and she was really afraid of eating new food. She would prefer eating at McDonald because they served the same menu with the same ingredient as there are in our country. And you, what kind of foodie are you ? Thanks a lot for your correction :)

#3 Murders of horses: sacrificial rites or gratuitous cruelty? Part.2 Here’s an update of the investigation. It seems that the murders of horses started in December 2019 but it became more important since April. Maybe it stops because of the lockdown due to the COVID 19, who knows … but one thing is sure : the investigators found that in Germany, there is the same crimes. At this point, they started to collaborate to resolve this matter. A lot of questions are still unanswered … some investigators think that it might be a sacrificial rite for satanic parties. They found a voodoo doll in one scene crime and sometimes they take 8 or 10 litres of blood from their victims. As I said in the last article, the victim can be any horses from the pony that worth €300 to a racehorse of €100,000 and they only take the organs sometimes but every time, they take the right ear. Through historic facts they found out that same thing happened in the USA and Great Britain in the early 70 and 80. i'll give you some updates next time. Thanks a lot for your correction :)

#2 Returning to School in an Epidemic Situation in France We have still a few days before returning to school again. But the situation in France has never been so vague for parents, children and teachers. Nowadays, there are over 6,000 contamination in 24 hours and the government is still saying that the back to school will be normal again. They told us that wearing a mask will be mandatory but the social distancing won’t be a problem anymore. So, the children will play together on the playground and they will have lunch together. My little brother is 14 years old and he will go back to school on Thursday. In my case, I’m a student from a university in the south of France and there are about 40,000 students on the campus. I can’t imagine how the situation will be, ahahah *nervous laugh* I have a friend from Turquey and another one from America who told me that they will have online classes. In Turquey for example, she said that you can go on the campus if you want but the courses are online. I think that it’s a great thing to manage the courses like that and it could make the situation less stressful for everyone. In my case, I’m familiar with courses online cause I already did one year online in 2017 and I really enjoy managing my time as I want it. Maybe it’s because of that feeling that I’m not comfortable with this idea of returning to school in such a mess. And you ? How will the situation be at the start of the school year? ;) I'll give you some updates next time. Thanks a lot for your correction :)

#1 The mystery massacre of horses in France In recent months, around twenty horses have been killed and mutilated all around the french territory. It can be a normal horse or a racehorse and the culprit would kill the horse and take one organ as the heart or damage the body. It started in May 2020. The link between all of those crimes is the right ear which is cut off and taken away each time. The police cannot identify if it's the crime of one person or a group. Since yesterday, they made a robot portrait of the main suspect. This true story gives me goosebumps. i'll give you some updates next time. Thanks a lot for your correction :)