Parlez vous francais?

Bonjour a tous! J’ai decidé de faire un effort d’ecrire ici sur ma blog, en français. J’ai besoin de pratiquer mon francais ecrit, car ca fait très très longtemps que j’ai pratiquer mon ecriture dans la langue francaise. J’ai aussi assez de confiance maintenant que je suis capable d’ecrire en francais.

J’etais toujour une des meilleurs etudiants dans mes classes de francais. Une des choses que je ne comprenait toujours pas, c’était qu’il y avait des etudiants qui après 9 ou 10 ans d’immersion français, pouvait pas construire une phrase en français. A mon école tout les etudiants en immersion francais ont du, prendre les examens du BI(baccalaureat International) en fracais. Moi et quelques autres on pris les examens plus difficile du niveau supérieure, et moi j’ai reussi très bien.

Depuis que je suis a Ottawa, j’ai eu quelques opportunités de pratiquer, j’ai pris un cour de traduction, et je trouvait que c’etait assez facile pour moi de traduire de français en anglais, mais j’ai eu beaucoup de dificulté avec l’ecriture en français. L’autre opportunité etait quand j’ai commencé a travailler dans une environment bilingue. J’étais chanceux car les personnes dont je travaillait avec m’ont aider beaucoup.

J’ai encore besoin de continuer a pratiquer, je pense que je vais prendre un cour en ecriture francais, cela aidera beaucoup. Je pense que faire l’effort de essayer de m’exprimer ici sur ma blog va m’aider aussi. Alors je vais essayer de ecrire en francais quelques fois par mois.

Tim hortons and what it says about canadians...

Tim hortons is not Canadian, first of all. Like many canadian icons it has been bought up by the Americans, which tells us, that Canadians like money, preferably American money.

Secondly Tim hortons is now moving into the US market. Even though it's not Canadian anymore, this tells us that Canadians are not afraid of competing on the world stage anymore. (This is a big chance from the late 1980s and the fear of free trade.. or it's the fact that free trade has been forced down our throats and we now have to accept it.. or they tell us we do..)

Third, Canadians like to feel comfortable. That's why people go to tim Horton's. Not because the coffee is good, but because we know it and like it.

Fourth, Tim Horton's is dominant in the east, but not as much in the west, at least until recently.. So it tells us that the people in eastern Canada, dominate this country.

That's all for now..

Thinking about a perfect robbery...

I just watched inside man. Interesting movie. I recommend it, if that's worth anything.

I am usually not much of a movie person, that means if i see a movie i am usually bored, or the movie is interesting enough to put my butt in a seat. My brother is the movie buff in the family. Most of the time i'd rather read a book.

Anyways nothing much else is new here, still slogging my way through Atlast Shrugges. It's a monster of a novel, the one thing i don't like is how hard it is to hold. I carried it with me to New Zealand and Australia and back, and hte only problem is that the cover is starting to rip. Not an airplane friendly book(too big).

I read the intro to Jeffrey Sachs book, and i'm curious to see what it contains. For someone who advised Russia on shock therapy, something which wasn't really all that successful and someone who talks about his success in stabilizing currencies in Bolivia(i think)i'm curious what he has to say about the developing world. He seems to be a fairly orthodox economist. Now i am not anti-market, far from it, i think that the market is a very useful and successful tool. I don't think it's more than that, which many economists proclaim. The funny thing is that i read Ann Rand's books and i don't have too many complaints with her goals, i just think it's hilarious to see how much the society we have today, made in some part in her image and how much it differs in results.

I think that ultimately that is the problem with the people like her who push this libertarian view. They don't understand human nature.