Danish Girl Student

1. Look carefully at Antonio’s speech in 3.4.316-321.
2. Paraphrase it (put into your own words).
3. Comment on it.
4. Give some of your own examples of what he is talking about. Use experiences you’ve had, seen, or heard about.

2.  What a deceiver you turned out to be! You personality does not live up to your beauty. You may look good, but really, you’re bad on the inside, which is where all natures real flaws are. Only really mean people can be called deformed. Virtue is beauty, but some one cruel and beautiful is like an empty trunk decorated by the devil himself.

3. I think in this speech, obviously, Antonio is extremely angry with ‘Sebastian’ for not giving him the promised amount of money. And he’s saying that good looks aren’t everything when you have a bad personality, but can be hidden for the most part.

4. Not only in lots of movies, but for instance when I was younger and we used to go to christmas parties my dad would be dressed up like santa and I thought it was the real santa, but now when I think back I realise how wrong I had been.

When I was in zimbabwe and I was starting in the fourth grade and there was a new teacher this year. The first day of school we was really nice and was trying to get to know us all, but by the second day of school she was alot harsher and didn’t seem to care about yelling at us even after only knowing us for only one day.

You can’t answer the question: “Where are you from?”

You speak two (or more) languages but can’t spell in any of them.

You flew before you could walk.

You have a passport, but no driver’s license.

You run into someone you know at every airport

You have a time zone map next to your telephone.

Your life story uses the phrase “Then we went to…” five times (or six, or seven times…).

You speak with authority on the quality of airline travel.

National Geographic (OR THE TRAVEL CHANNEL) makes you homesick.

You read the international section before the comics.

You don’t know where home is.

You sort your friends by continent.

You realize it really is a small world, after all.

You feel that multiple passports would be appropriate.

You watch a movie set in a ‘foreign country’, and you know what the nationals are really saying into the camera.

Rain on a tile patio – or a corrugated metal roof – is one of the most wonderful sounds in the world.

You haggle with the checkout clerk for a lower price.

Your wardrobe can only handle two seasons: wet and dry.

You automatically take off your shoes as soon as you get home.

Your house looks a little like a museum with all the “exotic” things you have around.

Half of your phone calls are unintelligible to those around you.

You go to Pizza Hut or Wendy’s and you wonder why there’s no chili sauce.

You know the geography of the rest of the world, but you don’t know the geography of your own country.

You have best friends in 5 different countries.

It takes 24 hours to reach home in a plane

You can only call your parents at 8am and 8pm

You never really use a seatbelt

Your high school football team had to play against itself.. if it had one

You got sick a lot and often had food poisoning

It wasn’t unusual to find a lizard or cockroach in your house

You got to go home twice a year …thats if you’re lucky

You are a pro packer, or at least have done it many times

Living out of a suitcase, you find, has it pros

You bump into your old teachers all the time

Family photos you sent every year took months to arrive and often were in front of some exotic statue or endangered animal no one has heard of

When you return to the your home country, you are overwhelmed with the number of choices in a grocery store ( I stood by the chocolate syrup for about 20 min. because there was a whole row)

You literally have real friends (not facebook friends) from different schools all over the nation on your friends list

Everyone had a ’staff’; maid, house cleaner, driver and babysitter

Most of the 1st graders have cell phones

You get excited when a relative sends a video tape of regular TV with commercials.. its in ENGLISH!

There was only one grocery store.. usually at the embassy that resembled the ones at home.

Once you get home you miss your adopted home and visa versa

You are never content in one place, be it city, state or country for long. You’re a mover.

You never had a part time job until you reached college

Blackouts are quite common, yet after a while no one seemed to notice and sometimes you would find yourself doing homework to the light of your phone or flashlight

Class reunions.. are not at your old school.. not even close

Your passport has more stamps than a post office

When the power cuts out and you sit there wondering when the generator is going to kick on… only then you realize there is no generator

When you carry converters because you actually realize there are different types of outlets

When people give you funny looks because you are a gold or platinum elite member of your airlines

When you constantly feel like you have to catch up with TV programs, actors and other people or songs you are not familiar with

You don’t think its strange that you haven’t talked to your best friend in a couple years, but you know you will always have a unique bond

You wake up in one country thinking you are in another

When a friend talks about their dreams of traveling to across the world to a secluded country and you can give them all the best restaurants and places to visit. You’re like the traveler guidebook.

You don’t even bother to change your watch when traveling

You hate subtitles because you know there is someone that can make an accurate translation.. you!

When you have little or no contact with the locals but are best friends with people across the globe

When you think everyone else is a foreigner in a county foreign to you

When your friends take you to an ‘ethnic’ restaurant as a joke and you can read the menu, order food for them and actually stomach the meal

When you start introducing yourself followed by your country of origin….

Your yearbooks are all different; made of fabrics known to that area and have stuff like elephants on them. Its your favorite keepsake.

Famous people like Uma Thurman went to your school and you had no idea until you researched (AES)

You have to change your passport because it’s full… not because it’s expired… and this several times during your school years

Paying a cop is not considered a bribe

You start to keep your experiences overseas to yourself because people look at you as though you are spoiled for having the opportunity to indulge in a new culture.. sad

You are afraid to go back to visit your school because you know no one will be there that you used to know, they all moved

Ants never sleep.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with “MONTH”.

The human brain is 80% water.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Singapore has only one train station.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet.

Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.

Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The tune for the “A-B-C” song is the same as “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

On Sesame Street, Bert’s goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

One April Fool’s, I thought it would be funny to put the salt in the sugar jar and vice versa. So, my sister skipped into the kitchen, eyeing up the packet of rice krispies. This was quite a big deal for us, having ceral because in Zimbabwe things like this were barely ever accessable, and every couple of weeks when we knew a box of cereal would be awaiting us in the mornings, it was the only thing that got us up. So she poured herself a large bowl while I was sitting at the kitchen table, with the ’sugar’ bowl in the middle, and had already frosted my rice krispies with the correct topping.

She sat down, and I pushed the jar across the table towards her. She used her spoon to load a mountain of ’sugar’ onto her cereal. I watched as she closed the jar and dug in. Her face quickly  twisted from excited to bitter. She looked at me, and I burst out laughing, “Kay !” she growled.

A parallel between the two pranks, is that both the pranksters (my self, and sir toby, sir andrew and fabian.)are watching eagerly as the prank unrolls itself, waiting for the final result.

Not only this but the pranks that they used are to do with something that never really happens, i.e people don’t often fall in love with malvolio, and we barely ever get cereal, so they used something that would really upset them.

 List of epithets

“rascally sheep-biter” (2.5.4-5)

“…comes the trout that must be caught with tickling” (2.5.18-19)

“overweening rogue” (2.5.25)

“contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him” (2.5.26)

“Marry, hang thee, Brock!”  (2.5.87)

“This wench” (2.5.150)

“Noble gull-catcher” (2.5.154)

“most excellent devil of wit!” (2.5.170)

This is

Translated into english this means Denmarks most beautiful festival. It occurs once a year for 4 days during the summer in August.

I have gone to since I was only little, and it is my favourite festival. It is held in a MASSIVE forest, and has around 3 stages set in different areas where performers come and sing, and there are hundreds of stalls, little food cafes set up, everything.

What I love about it is that it is so open, all you do is buy your ticket for how many days you want to go, then once you’re through the gates with your special arm band on you can access anything. So for instance, the main stage is surrounded by little bars and stalls so even if your not in the crowd watching the performance directly infront of it, you can be sitting at one of the bars and still be watching the show.

The stalls are set up in one main area, and they sell everything from clothes, to jewlery to CD’s to food.

Another thing I love about  this festival is that they have a system that mainly only the kids follow to earn money, where you go around collecting used glass bottles like beer,coke, etc. And you return them to this one stall and they give you money in exchange.

But to be able to really enjoy it, you have to wish for good weather, because if it rains, it can get really messy.

I don’t really think that there is a MAJOR difference, but I think that when a woman loves somebody she is more discrete about it, and likes to keep it in, and not make too much of a fuss, especially if the person they love is not mutual with the feeling. But for men, they seem to be really out there and very up front about it, and not really to fussed on whether anyone hears, and I think they feel like they need to prove it and show it to a large extent. But maybe this just depends on the person, but generally i think it is equal, apart from the relationship girls have with their friends. With girls they are quite emotional and have lots of feelings and so girls connect better in that sense because they have that in common, but guys tend to stay away from hugging and getting to emotional with their ‘buddies’ because they want to stick to having a manly and tough reputation.

I think Orsino expresses himself similar to what I said about guys being very upfront about it and needing to prove their feelings. Orsino is constantly talking about how much he loves Olivia and sending people over to her house to explain this, whilst Viola is very secretive about it. Maybe that’s because she wants to keep her identity hidden because if she doesn’t and reveals herself and her feelings, he might reject her and so she will be risking to much, which is another thing different about men and woman loving. Woman tend to be very careful when they love someone, always thinking about what the consequences might be and so on and so forth.

“Say that some lady as perhaps there is,

Hath for your love a great a pang of heart

As you hath for Olivia. ” (2.4.85-87)

I liked these lines alot, because like I said before woman are alot more careful when it comes to love, they like to maybe dip their toe into the waters before they dive in, and that is sort of what she is doing here. She says she’s talking about any woman but really she is talking about herself but in quite a conspicuous way without him realising, and is aswell finding out the answer to her question.

Nineteen Minutes is a novel written by Jodie Picoult.

I am not going to give away the ending or the main details but I will explain the main storyline.

It is a third person book that explores the lives of different people all living in the area of Sterling and are connected by one thing: A high school massacre.

You find out in the beginning of the book that there has been a shooting in the school of Sterling High, 9 kids were killed and one teacher. The twist is that the killer is none other than one of the students.

During the book each chapter either goes backward in time before the killing happened so you could see what happened to the killer to make him want to kill nine of his peers one of his teachers, it goes as far back as seventeen years even. It also shifts to after the killing happened so that you can see how his trial works out.

You alter between the different characters roughly every page and a half, and explore how they deal with the tragedy and also how they took part in the leading up to the decision of the Peter (The killer.) to shoot people in his school.

In the book you grow to love characters but then hate others, and sometimes even changing your mind when you find out about their past through the alteration of time.

It is a really powerful book that captures your attention greatly, it has alot of strong metaphoars and really makes you think. The description is also really well done.

I recommend it.

This is a relationship between the characters of Twelfth Night.

Sebastian is the twin borther of Viola.

Antonio is Sebastians friend

Orsin is madly in love with Olivia, but the feeling is not mutual.

Viola is madly in love with Orsino.

Cesario is the messenger for Orsion.

Orsino thinks that  Viola is a man (Cesario.)

Maria is the gentlewoman of Olivia.

Sir Toby and Sir Andrew are best friends

Fabian is Olivias servant

Maria likes Sir Toby as a friend

Feste is Olivias fool

Maria hates Malvolio

Malvolio is the steward of Olivia

Olivia is Sir Toby’s niece

Sir Andrew is the suitor countess to Olivia

Valentine is the courtier of Orsino