A different way of life

Friends readers, Hello!

Today we are going to speak about people, a little bit special and different from us, the Amish. This population, native of Switzerland, Germany and Alsace, was created in 1693 by Jackob Amman. Furthermore, they practice the Protestant religion. They take seriously the biblical orders. The church isn’t with the state. They are thus anti-modernist. For them, the modernization takes away them from God. 

These people live as in olden days, in the Middle Ages. They don’t wish to get modernized. They plough their farmlands with horses and moves only in carriage or on foot. Moreover, they don’t have electricity. It is a jump in past ! Surprising ! Clothes also mark this delay in the society. The women have no right to have the clothes of the men and conversely. Who would like to live without telephone, computer, music ? Who would like to get dressed as everybody? Today, nobody!

If we ask you to go to this community, which you would say? Will you be near to change your habits? For my part, that would not be possible to live all my life like that. Maybe 2/3 days but no more.

Between 16 and 20, during a few days, the young people have the right to go into town to know the modern society. They have the right to drink alcohol and to smoke. For us, it is the daily life. But for them, it is exceptional ! For them, it is the "rite of passage". At the end, the teenagers can ask to be baptized. In this case, they will stay all their life in the community.

What also shocked me ; it is that people of the same family get married between them and only in November. Personally, I would not like to get married to my cousin and what we choose me my own wedding date. There are risks for the future babies to have diseases because of that and they don"t realize

 it ! Strange, no ?

On one hand, it is true that the modernization can damage with regard to our health, but to cut itself of the world to be self-sufficient, I find that it is extreme as idea.

But I agree with them! The education is very important! They learn the mathematics, English, sciences, geography and history. The teachers also come from the Amish community. At the age of twelve, they leave the school, but continue to become enlightened.

Samuel Mullet, 66 years old, social leader and monk of an Amish community and his members are guilty of having made the resentful crimes on members of their community. They cut the beard of the men but also the hairs of the women were shaved. They "attacked them physically, and cropped them as animals ".

Mullet had taken himself for a God over the laws by ordering to the members of his clan to make a campaign of terror against nine members who showed him signs of resistance. Five attacks were spent at night. The aggressors violently took out of the bed the victims.

These attacks aimed at humbling the victims, the beard being the symbol of the man. It must not be any more cut when the man had got married. 

They wished that their victims return in the Amish community.

A story from Greece

Hello my dear love,

You aren’t in this world where I lived at present, and it makes me very sad. I miss you so. I me languished to see you, to return underground with you. But I cannot live without my mother. I chose and I hope that you understand it. That is why I decided to live six months with her and six months with you. It is for the happiness of all. I have to live with two loved ones which I so love; I cannot live without one of you. I shall never have thought that one day I would fall in love with you, you which come from another world, world which formerly frightened me. But I learnt to know you and to appreciate you, and today we are married, and I’m enjoyed. I remember me all the moments crossed with you, our meeting, and our marriage. How to forget them? Impossible! When I miss you, I think again these moments and I say to myself that very soon, we shall be together; hand in hand. It reassures me. I say to myself that we left to find ourselves better. I love you and I miss you so.

Your Persephone who loves you.

What's wrong with our education system?

I. Questions

1) Katherine Birbalsingh believes that the "system is broken because it keeps poor children poor". The system of education doesn’t want that pupils become bad with bad mark. Students stay on the bottom of the social ladder because they are poor on the social background.

2) Students have to make a success of their exam. But in contrary, teachers give excuses if they do not make a success of their exam. She says that it is a "culture of excuses", because teachers give excuses to excuse the students for their bad behavior at school because students aren’t responsible of themselves. It’s that why, this problem on this education exists. For the education, teachers are responsible of children and education. But teacher can’t help all children because the government doesn’t help teachers. 

3) This government ministers think that the discipline is very important and he supports teachers. They think that certain schools aren’t equal comparing to others schools. Consequently, they want help teachers.

The future teachers don’t learn to manage the behavior of the pupils. I think that the government will be better if he decides to prepare the professors to become good teachers.

4) Katherine Birbalsingh says:
- to be responsible for yourself,

- looking after everyone all the time,

- having a job for life no matter what you do

- having your place at school no matter what you do

- don’t think to the future, to leave the present time

5) She wants to give more power to teachers. Moreover, she wants to try to stop the fall of the level of the examinations. Teachers should be honest.


II. My opinion

In French, the system of the education is difficult for certain pupils who don’t manage to follow the course. That is why, they decide to stop the school early. What is not a good thing to do, I think. 

In the French system, there are many reforms in the education. Consequently, the pupils have to follow the movement even if that doesn’t please them. He has to adapt himself with the government. Every generation knows modifications in the system. What is disturbing for the pupils, what don’t know any more as studies. For example, my relatives hadn’t the same system that me and my children will have a various of mine.

Today, even if we continue our studies and even if we have our diplomas, we aren’t sure to find a work. Thus, for what that serves to make long studies if we don’t find a work? When we have to meet a boss for a work, he says to us that we have enough qualifications. But if we do not give us our chance, how to have qualifications? It is a sort of vicious circle.

Mr. Bean

I. Mr. Bean

At the beginning, Mr Bean is pressed to go to take his exam. Then, he doubles a car, which has an accident. He arrives 2 minutes before the beginning of the exam.

When he goes into the class of examination, he sits down next to an unknown. They begin both to discuss about this exam. He isn't stressed and begins to laugh with his companion. Indeed, he is relaxed and confident. That takes out a pen of its pocket. Mr Bean does the same. His companion takes out a pencil and Mr Bean in pose also one on the table. Then he takes out some of it, as well as his soft toy and his alarm clock. He planned everything to take his exam; and maybe make a success of it. 

When the exam begins, Mr Bean opens his envelope and sees the subject. Then, he begins to be stressed. His companion, him, writes. Mr Bean tries to look at his copy to have the answers. He is then going to get closer to him little by little. But his neighbor refuses to show him the answers. Mr Bean is going to make everything to know the answers, but he'll not arrive there. When his neighbor wishes to see what Mr Bean wrote, this one hides the copy. He makes as his companion. He is maybe ashamed to have written nothing on his copy, because, he doesn't know his lesson. Little before the end of the examination, he begins crying by thinking that he will have a bad mark.

Once the examination was finished, the professor asks to the pupils to return him three papers. But Mr Bean saw only two. He quickly takes out the third paper of his envelope and begins then to write fast. But he doesn't have time to finish his exam that he has to return him.

II. Me

The day before the examination, I believe to have forgotten everything. Consequently, all day long, I revise completely my courses to be sure to know everything.

The next day, before the examination, I'm afraid. Fear of not making a success, of having a bad mark. I ask then some questions to my companions to know if I know well my lesson.

When the professor gives me the copy, I take time to read, one by one, all the questions asked. Then, I begin to draft my answers, certain at first in the draft, the others directly on the copy. 

But from the beginning to the end, I do not trust me.

My passion

Since I'm 5 years old, my passion is the equitation. 

I have my gallop 4 and wait to return at home to cross the 5 and maybe the 6.

I'm in the stables of the Supernova. A family stable.

I went every week there before moving in Grenoble.

At the end of the year, we make a show by disguising us on a theme.

It asks for a lot of work, but at the end, it is magnificent. 

My presentation

Hello everybody, my name is Virginie.

I was born on November 18th, 1992. 

I left my little village of the Var, Nans les Pins, to study German LLCE in Grenoble.

I've two little brother, Olivier and Guillaume.

I'm in couple with Olivier for 1 year. I love him.