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[ad-miral]

Ohh... Actually, I'm very warm-hearted and a softie, look at my homepage. I have drawn a picture of my fiancee doesn't she look nice? (Scroll the page down)
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If I say "I love you" to someone, then I also have to say "I also love everyone else inside you, I love the whole world because of you, I also love myself inside you." -- Erich Fromm, the Art of Love

[Cristi]

Hello guys!

It's been ages from the last time I posted anything... Please say welcome to me, I feel all confused, there are so many new things here! Dave's done a great job with the page

I'll need some time to get to know it again...

Oh well, hope you guys are all great.

Greets,

Cristina.
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�PURA VIDA! Carpe Diem

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
Mark Twain.

[beancurdturtle]

Hello Cristina,

Welcome back.
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Daniel

�Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.�
--Dr. Seuss

[Cristi]

[Pommezani]

Welcome back!!!

I've been myself quite busy and away from ESL... but I'm gonna try to be here more!! hehe

[ad-miral]

Welcome Christi! Happy Halloween!
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If I say "I love you" to someone, then I also have to say "I also love everyone else inside you, I love the whole world because of you, I also love myself inside you." -- Erich Fromm, the Art of Love

[Cristi]

Thanks guys!!!

Admiral, some people here, in Costa Rica, celebrate Halloween, but for me, it doesn't mean anything... But thank you anyway... Do you guys celebrate Halloween or don't mind about it?

See ya!
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�PURA VIDA! Carpe Diem

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
Mark Twain.

[ad-miral]

I'm too old for standing in front of a neighbour's door, wearing some costumes, asking for sweets.
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If I say "I love you" to someone, then I also have to say "I also love everyone else inside you, I love the whole world because of you, I also love myself inside you." -- Erich Fromm, the Art of Love

[Pommezani]

in France, we don't have Halloween, but a few years ago, it's started coming in France, and kids were asking sweets wearing clothes of witch etc and shops everywhere were orange and black.. But now, people start to think it's commercial day and we don't do it so much anymore... and the 1st of November is the day of dead people (catholic day-off) so we take more care of this day then Halloween...

[Cristi]

[Bob S.]

[ad-miral]

I hope a day will come, where all of us celebrate Chinese New Year.
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If I say "I love you" to someone, then I also have to say "I also love everyone else inside you, I love the whole world because of you, I also love myself inside you." -- Erich Fromm, the Art of Love

[Cristi]

Hello guys!

Bob, you're right, I don't have to be religious to celebrate it. Actually, we celebrate Christmas and all, but I just see it as a way to get the family united...

It's also true about importing cultures, that's what globalization is about, isn't it? All this has its roots on commerce and are the great companies the ones who make culture an industry on many aspects (clothes, food, interests, technology, language, work...).

It's good about your wife and you. Oh, by the way, I love Buddhism, for me is just sooo interesting. I get all excited about cultures and food and languages. I love all of them!

Our Christmas is interesting, because my parents are agnostic too so we go first to my granda's house (my mum's mum) and have dinner and all, in a very costarican way and later we got to my uncle's house (my dad's bro) and we dinner again.

For me is very cool, and I have so many cousins, like 25 on my mum's part, so it's quite crazy at my gran's and later I go to my uncle's and everything's quiet since my dad has only 3 brothers...

Anyway, I gotta go now...
Bye!!!!!!

Cristi.
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�PURA VIDA! Carpe Diem

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
Mark Twain.

[ad-miral]

I don't see the sense in religion. I don't mean that I don't believe in spiritual things, I only can't understand a church demanding "church-fees" from the believers here in Germany. God isn't greedy, I suppose.
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If I say "I love you" to someone, then I also have to say "I also love everyone else inside you, I love the whole world because of you, I also love myself inside you." -- Erich Fromm, the Art of Love

[Pommezani]

haha!! "church-fees" lol well, here in France, you can give money to the church, but the money goes for electricity of the church, buy candles for the church, and clean the church.. I'm not sure if a part of it goes to the prest, cause there is not so much people in churchs now in France so the church doesn't get so much "church-fees" lol

about Xmas, you can see pictures of Xmas on my blog (just type Pommezani on google, you should find it hehe)! Here in France, Xmas is about presents and family. We have dinner or lunch that last all day lol all together, and we get presents and offer presents to who we love! I love offering presents I always spend a long time put the decorative paper around and I'm always excited like I wanna see if my present will make this person happy!!

about Mc Donalds.. well we have a LOT of Mc Donalds, not so much Burger King or KFC (maybe only in Paris, and not so much..). But we have one called Quick, which is like Mc Donalds but better but still not really good for health hehe so for fast food, that's all we have. We have Pizza Hut too, but it's not a fast food right? hm. what else.

for Admiral: I did Zhong qiu jie last year!! but this year, any of my chinese friend told me so I missed it no mooncake for me in Sept and about chinese new year, people have party for it in Paris, not only chinese people. It starts to be popular in France