Kiss shocked India

Maybe many of you have heard about Richard Gere´s exaggerated gentleness. But in my opinion not only is this action exaggerated also the reaction of some groups of men is really excessive.

His kisses on the cheeks of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in an event to promote Aids awareness caused shock and sparked protests in India. Many saw the act as an outrage against Shetty's modesty and Indian culture, though Shetty dismissed the protests as an "over-reaction" that made India look silly.

Groups of men kicked and burned even effigies of Richard Geere in protests agains India. From my view this reaction is really exaggerated because the action of him was not that terrible or harassing.

fun...

Yesterday in the evening Julia, Hermine, Kristel, Alex, Maria and I met in the Propeller for a drink and had decided before to speak English. Before we met I had thought that it would be a bit strange and embarrassing because it is not a typical place for speaking this language, but it was really funny and the situation was very relaxed. We were there for about two hours and spoke about different themes. Some very serious the others entertaining and of course there was the typical girl talk. All in all it was a very nice evening and we all together decided to repeat this as soon as possible. I think all of us had a blast.

vocabulary

Yesterday Alexandra and I elaborated some vocab which will be HOPEFULLY useful for our test tomorrow. We chose some from the first chapter from the book which might be important and also some from the script. I hope we caught the most necessary ones and they will help us to pass our exam!

learning...

Today I spent some time on working on the vocabulary which we need for our test on Thursday. I worked out some from Jaywalking and from our script. Moreover I read about twenty pages of David Monagans book, but to be honest I still can´t cotton on to this book (we are not friends yet). :-) As the first day after the holidays was quite exhausting I think I go to bed now, tomorrow is another busy day.

Good night!