The question was: Do you think that there is a segregation in life?
And yes, I do. In my opinion there will always be a segregation just because there will always be people who have more money than others. The people who are wealthier can live in a differant style than poor people.
For example: Neighborhoods. To buy a house in certain neighboorhood is more expensive than living in an other. That splits people in two categories: the people who have more money live next to eachother and the people who are less wealthy have their homes in the same area.
I think the amount of money which people have is one of the biggest reason, why there is a segregation. It differs people in so many things: where they go on vacation, in which school they are, what kind of clothes they are wearing, their cars... etc etc.
I think when a country is very poor like India for example, segregation is getting more common. You can see more the contrast between the rich and the poor people. In India they have different categories to differ people from each other depending how much money they have.
On the opposite the country where I am from, Luxembourg, is kind of a rich country because it's very very small. The segregation is not shown so obviously but there is still a segregation in other respects. Schools for example have certain clichees and people actually choose their school depending on these clichees. Certain schools are known for, that they have more 'snob' students. But generally the segregation is not so clear and obvious as in India or an other poor country, because all the people who live in Luxembourg have enough money to live a nice life. I'm very lucky to live in a country where the segregation is not so huge because when we went to Africa it let me feel bad when I saw that all the tourists were so rich compared to the inhabitants...
Some people like to live with the people of their categories. For example a lot of chinese people wanted to construct a chinatown because they liked to live in their lifestyle or habit even if they actually live in a completely different city or country. So we can see that it's not always a bad thing to live in segregation because there are some people who prefer that.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
[RE] Chocolate
My post respond on Lotta's free post from last week about chocolate.
So I'am the friend of her who started with her the three-weeks-without-chocolate-challenge:D
We are doing that just for fun and to look if we are strong enough to resist the temptation.
Actually I have to say that it is so much easier to do that with friends. When I'm trying to eat less chocolate and I do it on my own, it never works because I never pass through the temptation.
For sure I miss to eat chocolate and it kills me when my sister sits next to me with a huge brownie and I'm just thinking: Alright Claire, only two weeks more...
I think nobody can exactuely tell us, why we just need sometimes to eat a piece of chocolate, it is just like it is. And nothing else can replace it. I personally can not eat something instead of chocolate when I want something sweet. Then I prefer to eat nothing with sugar and set a day where I can eat as much calories I want to eat:D
I'm happy that I'm not alone because as I said, I could never make it on my own:P I'm really looking forward to our chocolate evening because then we can enjoy all our calories we missed the last weeks and be proud that we made it. That sounds like I'm a bit weird, of course most of the time I eat chocolate without bad feelings, like everybody else, but I think it's fun to try this out. But only for 3 weeks, that's for sure! :P
So I'am the friend of her who started with her the three-weeks-without-chocolate-challenge:D
We are doing that just for fun and to look if we are strong enough to resist the temptation.
Actually I have to say that it is so much easier to do that with friends. When I'm trying to eat less chocolate and I do it on my own, it never works because I never pass through the temptation.
For sure I miss to eat chocolate and it kills me when my sister sits next to me with a huge brownie and I'm just thinking: Alright Claire, only two weeks more...
I think nobody can exactuely tell us, why we just need sometimes to eat a piece of chocolate, it is just like it is. And nothing else can replace it. I personally can not eat something instead of chocolate when I want something sweet. Then I prefer to eat nothing with sugar and set a day where I can eat as much calories I want to eat:D
I'm happy that I'm not alone because as I said, I could never make it on my own:P I'm really looking forward to our chocolate evening because then we can enjoy all our calories we missed the last weeks and be proud that we made it. That sounds like I'm a bit weird, of course most of the time I eat chocolate without bad feelings, like everybody else, but I think it's fun to try this out. But only for 3 weeks, that's for sure! :P
[FREE] My future plans
I think the 'future plans' topic is always a huge subject to talk about. How should my future look like? I think that is always one of the most difficult questions because to decide how I want to spend my life is kind of complicated.
It should be a mixture of our dream and a realistic job. It's not always the best idea to pursue our dream job because with certain works, earning money is easier, as with others.
In Luxembourg you decide a direction kind of early because after the 4th year of highschool, you have to choose a 'section'. A, B, C, D, E, F or G
At the moment I'm thinking to take the C-Section. It is for science subjects like Biologie, Chemistry and Physics. I have the advantage that my strengths are kind of the same than my interests so it allows me to realize my dream job.
I'm interested in Medecine but I know that to study it takes a very long time and it's hard, very hard. In Europe, they make big selections at Universities, so they only take the people with the best grades. I don't know if I'm strong enough to get on well with that pressure for all these years.
When I would decide to study Medecine I would be finish with my studies when I'm around 30 years old. One the one side is it kind of late to have children. One the other side, is it only the beginning when you want to make a career as a doctor so 30 would be the earliest possibility to raise children.
It is a very difficult question and at the moment I decided to look forward step by step and everything what's coming when I'm 30, I won't think about these questions right now.
It should be a mixture of our dream and a realistic job. It's not always the best idea to pursue our dream job because with certain works, earning money is easier, as with others.
In Luxembourg you decide a direction kind of early because after the 4th year of highschool, you have to choose a 'section'. A, B, C, D, E, F or G
At the moment I'm thinking to take the C-Section. It is for science subjects like Biologie, Chemistry and Physics. I have the advantage that my strengths are kind of the same than my interests so it allows me to realize my dream job.
I'm interested in Medecine but I know that to study it takes a very long time and it's hard, very hard. In Europe, they make big selections at Universities, so they only take the people with the best grades. I don't know if I'm strong enough to get on well with that pressure for all these years.
When I would decide to study Medecine I would be finish with my studies when I'm around 30 years old. One the one side is it kind of late to have children. One the other side, is it only the beginning when you want to make a career as a doctor so 30 would be the earliest possibility to raise children.
It is a very difficult question and at the moment I decided to look forward step by step and everything what's coming when I'm 30, I won't think about these questions right now.
[CE] Kidnapped French woman dies in Somalia
My third post responds this week on the current event : Kindnapped French woman dies in Somalia
When I read this current event, I was so schocked... An innocent, old laddy was at the the beach of a Kenyan Island Resort and got kidnapped. Actually it wasn't a lonly place so usually there wouldn't be a reason to worry or to imagine about such a horrible thing.
I'm always asking myself why people do that to other humans... I mean, it is obvious that they weren't interested in money because when the French woman told them that they could take all the stuff from the house, they just ignored what she was saying. They only took her away.
The article says also that it was planned, targeted attack, according to witnesses because we can see on the way how she kidnapped her that it was not important for them to hide the kidnepping from other people.
I think this current event shows us again that you can never take enough care of yourself but actually there will never be a garanty for totally safety. That scarres me a bit because the old laddy from France didn't do something wrong... I think that is also very hard for her family because it's nobody's fault. It is not the case that she brought herself in a dangerous situation and I think that is the most difficult part to accept, that it's nobody's fault...
Some French authorities tried to get the medication she needed to her and the place she was located. She had cancer so she needed her medecine to survive. The saying goes that she died because she didn't get her stuff...
Everything what I can say about this event is that it's horrible and I think there was no chance to save her...
When I read this current event, I was so schocked... An innocent, old laddy was at the the beach of a Kenyan Island Resort and got kidnapped. Actually it wasn't a lonly place so usually there wouldn't be a reason to worry or to imagine about such a horrible thing.
I'm always asking myself why people do that to other humans... I mean, it is obvious that they weren't interested in money because when the French woman told them that they could take all the stuff from the house, they just ignored what she was saying. They only took her away.
The article says also that it was planned, targeted attack, according to witnesses because we can see on the way how she kidnapped her that it was not important for them to hide the kidnepping from other people.
I think this current event shows us again that you can never take enough care of yourself but actually there will never be a garanty for totally safety. That scarres me a bit because the old laddy from France didn't do something wrong... I think that is also very hard for her family because it's nobody's fault. It is not the case that she brought herself in a dangerous situation and I think that is the most difficult part to accept, that it's nobody's fault...
Some French authorities tried to get the medication she needed to her and the place she was located. She had cancer so she needed her medecine to survive. The saying goes that she died because she didn't get her stuff...
Everything what I can say about this event is that it's horrible and I think there was no chance to save her...
Friday, October 14, 2011
[CE] Bhutan celebrates royal wedding
I choose to write about this current event because I'm actually a big fan of royal weddings.
You can see in the video that people from Bhutan have a totaly different way to celebrate their weddings. Clothes, traditions and the whole ceremony is different.
The King saw his future wife when he was 17. At that time she was 7 and I think it was kind of weird for him to see his wife when he was so young.
Honestly I'm against previewed weddings because I think people should choose their own partner because they have to live with each other at the end, not the person who matches the couple.
On the video both of them don't look very in love and that is missing. Smaller ceremonies are maybe not so big and decorated nice but it has a natural beauty because you can really see that the couple loves each other and that's actually the reason why people should get married.
I think its very cute that all the people are rushing to congrate the royal couple for their wedding.
It's always a big event in the whole country when the royal couple gets marry but I think it's not very fun for the couple. They are very stressed because a whole nation is looking at them and all the videocameras are there. The King's wife doesn't look very happy and I think that's too bad. Actually it should be her special day but she doesn't get the chance to enjoy it because all the people are staring on them.
For example at the royal wedding in England, people were talking about the royal kiss and I think you can not enjoy at all the moment were you get married when everybody is just waiting to see a mistake to have new gossip to talk about.
[FREE] Scuba Diving
It's getting harder and harder to find every week a topic to write about in my free post:) So this week I wanted to write about something I always wanted to try in my life but never got the courage to make it real.
Something, I always wanted to try out is Scuba Diving. Friends who went diving told me that's so amazing!
The fact, that everything is quiet around you and you can watch the different kinds of fishes is a great feeling. When I see all these pictures, which were taken by people who went scuba diving, I'm aways thinking that I would love to try it but actually I'm too afraid to dive under the water surface.
Maybe it's the case because when I was younger I had bad experiences of diving.
I would really like to try it but always when I'm deap under the water surface, I'm feeling pressed... It's weird, I know:)
3 years ago we went to Jordan, next to the Red Sea. My parents went scuba diving and my sister too but I couldn't join them because I was ill and diving is dangerous when people are sick.
I think I'm going to start to learn it first in a swimming pool, before I'm going to the sea because that takes me the fear of the depth.
During the Thank's Giving Break I'm going to Hawai with my hostfamily, so I hope I will have enough courage to overcome my fear and make my dream comes true.
Something, I always wanted to try out is Scuba Diving. Friends who went diving told me that's so amazing!
The fact, that everything is quiet around you and you can watch the different kinds of fishes is a great feeling. When I see all these pictures, which were taken by people who went scuba diving, I'm aways thinking that I would love to try it but actually I'm too afraid to dive under the water surface.
Maybe it's the case because when I was younger I had bad experiences of diving.
I would really like to try it but always when I'm deap under the water surface, I'm feeling pressed... It's weird, I know:)
3 years ago we went to Jordan, next to the Red Sea. My parents went scuba diving and my sister too but I couldn't join them because I was ill and diving is dangerous when people are sick.
I think I'm going to start to learn it first in a swimming pool, before I'm going to the sea because that takes me the fear of the depth.
During the Thank's Giving Break I'm going to Hawai with my hostfamily, so I hope I will have enough courage to overcome my fear and make my dream comes true.
[RE] I wonder what the person I'm going to marry is doing right now
I decided to write a respond post on Sharon's free post about her future husband
I think the questions which Sharon was asking herself are very interesting and I've never thought about it in that way.
Well, so what is my future husband doing at the moment while I'm writing my free post in English right now? How old is he? Where does he live? When I started to think about all these questions, I started to get more and more curious.
Actually, we have often situations where we recognize that one year ago we could never imagine how things would turn out one year later...
So I'm sure that when I will be marry, I can remember the days where I was thinking about how and who my husband would be... I think it's funny when people are standing at a point where you have all the answers of the questions we asked ourself a few years ago.
When people have boyfriends in high school or college they always imagine to stay with them forever, raise children etc... but actually when we look over that in a realistic way is it hard to stay forever with that person. In life we will meet a lot of peopl so the risk, that we meet someday a person who matches better with us, is big.
But that's not only the case when you're young. Even when you are an adult it can happen that you meet someday another person which you like more. That makes me a bit nervous and so I'm not sure if I want to marry a person. So here we get the next question. Will we ever get married or is it enough to have only relationships nowadays?
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