So antithetical is a word. Who knew?
Well, apart from Microsoft spellcheck. My English teacher too, hopefully, else the intelligent feel I'm aiming for in the commentary I'm writing for her won't work.
The funniest thing happened the other day- my friend and I were discussing the possibility of doing a road trip across Europe for our gap years in Art. Hours later, I got home and decided to watch Anastasia for the first time ever, and while my inner history geek was cringing...
...seriously, guys, I had no idea there was a road trip across Europe in that film. I felt like it was giving us its blessing.
So that was fun. xD
The centrepiece was a thing called 'Take Care Of Yourself', or 'Prenez Soin De Vous' (well, it is French). I'd not realised just was the formalised wording of the French title meant- the vous form is usually used with someone you don't know all that well, or with someone older than you, hence it's pretty formal. You don't normally refer to your lover with it, even in a breakup letter like the one that was the thing the exhibition revolved around.
Basically, Sophie's lover sent her an email saying that their relationship could not continue. She didn't know how to respond to this, and so decided to send it to 107 females around the world (as you do) to analyse it for her. She then collected their responses, with some absolutely beautiful photos of their very first reaction to it, and put them up under the name of 'Prenez Soin De Vous', which was the last line of the letter.
The first one we came to was one of the funniest, with a video of Brenda the Parrot's reaction. No, really. She was an actual parrot, and her response was as follows:
Hand: [gives letter]
Brenda the Parrot: OMNOMNOM
[pause]
BtP: [produces mohican]
___-[ruffles feathers]
___-[proceeds to headbang whilst screeching 'take care of yourself' in an unidentifiable language]
Seriously, we stayed there a good five minutes watching this play over and over again, and it never got any less funny than the first time.
The range of people there was was pretty amazing, actually. They had Camille, Feist, a criminologist, an SMS language translator (yes, really), a children's author who turned it into a fairytale, a proofreader who highlighted different bits, and even an expert markswoman who used it for target practice, which we found quite funny, since in the video she regarded it at the end with a look that quite clearly said 'much better'. One of my definite favourites was a sarky old French lady who read the whole thing whilst sitting at a table, cigarette in hand as she indirectly tore into the writer's attempts to cover up for himself. There was also a Spanish lady who seemed to be simultaneously chiding Calle and her lover "Darling, you can't put conditions on love. It is either unconditional or it is not there" is not a sentiment I agreed with, but I did like her frankness.
The schoolgirl's was possibly the most poignant though. She wrote a few short lines like it was any other homework- this letter is from a man to a woman and so on- but it was all so honest and innocent that it pulled on every heartstring I had. I think the man loves the woman really was one bit, and it must be quite sad for the man and the woman because he says he wishes it had been better.
All together now: AWW.
So yeah, that was fun. I'm going back next week too, with the friend I was discussing road trip stuff with, since she wasn't in my French class and thus wasn't invited to go along today.
Today, my church youth group had an early Christmas dinner, which was lulzy, endorphin-fuelled and left us all collapsed on the sofas with that 'Christmas Day Evening' feeling. The major laughs came from being a Hetalia fan at the moment when the boy next to me, during a discussion on Anglo-Franco relations, summed it up like this:
"It's like a love-hate relationship: we do the hating, they do the loving, the stupid frogs."
I rather think Arthur would have been proud of him. I know I was- though the length of time I spent laughing worried him a little, bless him.
Also, there is a seriously freaky new campaign to stop people (mostly women) from taking unlicensed cabs. I've never been scared by a pictorial advert before, but... yeah.
C'est tout. Apart from this, which is lulzy.
The funniest thing happened the other day- my friend and I were discussing the possibility of doing a road trip across Europe for our gap years in Art. Hours later, I got home and decided to watch Anastasia for the first time ever, and while my inner history geek was cringing...
...seriously, guys, I had no idea there was a road trip across Europe in that film. I felt like it was giving us its blessing.
So that was fun. xD
The centrepiece was a thing called 'Take Care Of Yourself', or 'Prenez Soin De Vous' (well, it is French). I'd not realised just was the formalised wording of the French title meant- the vous form is usually used with someone you don't know all that well, or with someone older than you, hence it's pretty formal. You don't normally refer to your lover with it, even in a breakup letter like the one that was the thing the exhibition revolved around.
Basically, Sophie's lover sent her an email saying that their relationship could not continue. She didn't know how to respond to this, and so decided to send it to 107 females around the world (as you do) to analyse it for her. She then collected their responses, with some absolutely beautiful photos of their very first reaction to it, and put them up under the name of 'Prenez Soin De Vous', which was the last line of the letter.
The first one we came to was one of the funniest, with a video of Brenda the Parrot's reaction. No, really. She was an actual parrot, and her response was as follows:
Hand: [gives letter]
Brenda the Parrot: OMNOMNOM
[pause]
BtP: [produces mohican]
___-[ruffles feathers]
___-[proceeds to headbang whilst screeching 'take care of yourself' in an unidentifiable language]
Seriously, we stayed there a good five minutes watching this play over and over again, and it never got any less funny than the first time.
The range of people there was was pretty amazing, actually. They had Camille, Feist, a criminologist, an SMS language translator (yes, really), a children's author who turned it into a fairytale, a proofreader who highlighted different bits, and even an expert markswoman who used it for target practice, which we found quite funny, since in the video she regarded it at the end with a look that quite clearly said 'much better'. One of my definite favourites was a sarky old French lady who read the whole thing whilst sitting at a table, cigarette in hand as she indirectly tore into the writer's attempts to cover up for himself. There was also a Spanish lady who seemed to be simultaneously chiding Calle and her lover "Darling, you can't put conditions on love. It is either unconditional or it is not there" is not a sentiment I agreed with, but I did like her frankness.
The schoolgirl's was possibly the most poignant though. She wrote a few short lines like it was any other homework- this letter is from a man to a woman and so on- but it was all so honest and innocent that it pulled on every heartstring I had. I think the man loves the woman really was one bit, and it must be quite sad for the man and the woman because he says he wishes it had been better.
All together now: AWW.
So yeah, that was fun. I'm going back next week too, with the friend I was discussing road trip stuff with, since she wasn't in my French class and thus wasn't invited to go along today.
Today, my church youth group had an early Christmas dinner, which was lulzy, endorphin-fuelled and left us all collapsed on the sofas with that 'Christmas Day Evening' feeling. The major laughs came from being a Hetalia fan at the moment when the boy next to me, during a discussion on Anglo-Franco relations, summed it up like this:
"It's like a love-hate relationship: we do the hating, they do the loving, the stupid frogs."
I rather think Arthur would have been proud of him. I know I was- though the length of time I spent laughing worried him a little, bless him.
Also, there is a seriously freaky new campaign to stop people (mostly women) from taking unlicensed cabs. I've never been scared by a pictorial advert before, but... yeah.
C'est tout. Apart from this, which is lulzy.