Badminton

Historically we know that indians had played a similar game with a raquet and a ball but the origins of badmniton are british. British military officers created badminton with a Champagne cap and feathers upon their return from India and named it battledoor and shuttlecock. The first rulesbook was written by Isaac Spratt but no exemplar exist anymore. Badminton was considered as an olympic game in 1992.

There are two types of game : single and double.  The rules are very simple. First you have to engage diagonally after the first line and before the last one, in a double game the player has to engage before the second line, in every case of engagement you must engage under the hips. The side limits of the court are the sidelines, the first if you are a single player or the second if you play a double game. Now you have to touch the otherside ground with the shutllecock.

But sometimes it isn't as simple as the rules, like here in this match between China and Malaysia.

Now in single game the world champions are chinese and in double game Danmark for the men and malaysian for the women. The fastest shutllecock ever thrown had a speed of 416km/h !!!

Have a nice time playing badminton.

Francis

°Oo A go0d cake without gluten oO°

It soon the Day of the kings and i tried to make the cake :) and it was so delicious, i didn't think it was so easy to do it. I think it's a good idea to show you that is easy to cook without gluten, and everybody can eat like this.    For the puff pastry i bought it at the Coop. 

→ Ingredients:

- 250g gluten free flour

- 150g softened butter

- 2 heaped tablespoons of cream

- 1 egg

- 1 pinch of salt

- 1/2 gluten free yeast packet

- 100g brown sugar

- 25 g butter melted

- 1 rounded tablespoon of cream

- 100g ground almonds

- 1 egg + 1 white - keep the yellow to brown

→ For the frangipane:

- 100g brown sugar
- 25g butter melted
- 1 rounded tablespoon of cream
- 100g ground almonds
- 1 egg white + 1 - keep the yellow to brown

→ Preparation :

Mix softened butter with the egg, add sour cream, flour and yeast and the pinch of salt. Make a ball and refrigerate 1 hour.

Prepare the fragipane: combine all ingredients except 1 egg yolk.

Preheat the oven to 180 °C.

Spread half the pastry between two sheets of bakinf paper. Use a tart pan to cut the cake.

Remove the roll obtained on the hob.
Garnish with almond paste, leaving half an inch all around. Put 2 beans in the frangipane.

Then repeat a second round of dough to cover the frangipane. Make a few strokes with a knife and brush dough with beaten egg yolk. Putin the oven 25 min at 180 ° C. And you eat it warm !

Enjoy  ♥

                                                                                                                         ϳσγ

 

Kin ball

I’m going to speak about the kin ball. The kin ball is an activity that was invented in

Quebec in 1986 by Mario Demens, Bachelor of Physical Education.

Object of the game

The object of this game is to serve the ball to one of the opposing teams in such a way that the opposing team will not be able to catch the ball before it touches the ground.

For the receiving team the object is to lift the ball upward.

Match:

A match is composed of three fifteen minutes periods. And the area where the game is played is the gym floor.

A team:

Each team has four players on the court. And on the court there are always three teams.

The game:

To serve the ball three players of a team hold the ball and the fourth player of the team is the server.

The other teams are positioned in each quarter of the gym. The server has to shout « omniking » followed by the colour of one of the opposing team. And then hit the ball with one or two arms. The team who has been called becomes the receiving team. The receiving team has to control the ball with any part of the body before it touches the ground.

If the receiving team drops the ball, the serving team and the other one, become a point. If the opposing team caches the ball, they have to immobilise it and then re-serve it. If the team who serves the ball commits a fault, a point is given to the two others teams.

One this picture we can see that the ball is very big. We can also see the three different teams. We can see that the ball has just been served, because this man is in the serving position.

It’s not a sport very known by the people, but I think that it could be an interesting activity to do at school. In some other countries they have this activity at school, for example in France. It is easier then the volleyball because it’s not very technical. We have not to know how to hit the ball.

In Switzerland there is not a national team. But there are some clubs where it’s possible to play kin ball.

Leana

MR. Iroc(Aka Roca Dolla)

Mr. Iroc is my favorite rapper/producer. He's from Phoenix(Arizona).

When he was at highschool, he was interested in rap and he began rapping pretty young. Mr.Iroc set up a studio in his room. After a short time, he moves his studio in a building and called his studio: "Iroc Records".

Mr. Iroc formed the group "The Product Click" with his friends Big Dame, E-Dog, Swim Tha Hardcore & The Music Doctor. Together they will record the first Mr. Iroc's solo album called "Finally On Tha Map".Before released the album, he released(only on tape) the single "Memories" dedicated to a dead friend.

The Album was released in 1995/1996 on Iroc Records and took the first place of the arizona charts without radio playing. This album is 100% Gfunk with dark track(like One 4 the money,Str8 Flowin) sad ones(like Memories, I Wish They Come Back) and more festive(or funky) ones(like Already Knowin,Tha Product). It contains wonderful chorus singing by men and women, the talkbox is used on the tracks "I Wish they Come Back" and "Humpen" and my favorite track of all the time is on this album: "Already Knowin" that is a ode to Gfunk with his beautiful chorus by Deon and his verses by Mr. Iroc,Big Dame & Swin Tha Hardcore. Mr. Iroc produces all the tracks.
Finally On Tha Map is one of the rarest and most wanted g-funk album. The only chance to get one is that a collector put it in auction on Ebay. 4 copy of this albums has been sold this year on Ebay.(respectively for 75$, 124$, 52$) and I won the last one for "only" 37$.

Then Mr. Iroc had one son and one daughter.
He produced then for Bookie's album "Stressin".

In 2001, he released his second album "The Release"

The Product Click is on this album too. I already download this album and it's very good but if I got the possibility to buy it next year on Ebay, I will do it. The Release is available on all the amazon(.com, .fr, .de, .co.uk,etc) but it's really too expensive.

In 2008, after changed his name to Roca Dolla, he released a double album "Roca Is A Classic" on  5 Fifth Coast Records

This album sounds no more Gfunk but its one of the best of 2008 for me. Some veterans are on the album like Bookie, AZ Mike Mill or Big Dame and a lot of new and unknow rapper from Arizona. This album minimum cost is 35-40$ used.


Now Roca Dolla produces news Arizona artists like Killy Kill and directed a lot of video clip

(PS: next time I will try to don't speak about Gfunk...)

Dylan

Battle Royal - The worst movie ever !

Battle Royal is a 2000 Japanese movie with Takeshi Itano as main star.

Story
Towards 2050 Japan is part of an Empire in Asia where teenagers are more and more violent. So the government decides to vote a law named Battle Royal. The law is to take, at random, a class of students and send them kill each other on an island. The story begins with Shuya Nanahara a student of the Kanagawa Prefecture who is selected with his whole class to participate to Battle Royal. They thought going on a school trip, but when they woke up they were on the island.

After that, their professor explains them the rules of the game with the help of an interactive video. They have around their neck a necklace that tells the teacher where they are. Every six hours a new zone of the island is forbidden so that at the end, all the students will be at the same place. If, at the end of the three days two or more students are still alive their collar will explode.

So begins the carnage. The film focus on some of the students and how they will die... But some of them will rebel against the authority, and the government's plans will be compromised...

My personal opinion
I think, this movie is one of the most funny and stupid I ever seen! The actors are so bad! Sometimes Japanese's way of acting is a bit strange or not conventional, but these actors are so bad that the whole movie becomes so comic! There are so many inconsistencies that we don't understand some parts. And the end is just epic. I won't reveal it because the film would lose his interest!

If you have time to waste or friends to make laugh, don't think too much, just show them Battle Royal!


- David -

Montecaos

We are in december, soon Christmas... So it's time for COOKIES!

It's not really "Christmas's cookies", but they are really, really good!

Those biscuits called Montecaos. They are from Algeria, and are shortbread.
I found this recipe at the show "Un dîner presque parfait" on M6. I will try it because at the TV they seemed very good! So, I went on the website (http://undinerpresqueparfait.m6.fr/) and I checked the recipe. I try it and it was wonderful! In the kitchen it smelled good and the cookies were perfects!
There are variants but I try only this one!

For this recipe you need :

-90g. icing sugar
-15cl oil
-100g. almonds
-250g. flour
-1/2 packet of backing powder
-Some cinnamon powder

Preheat oven to 170°C.
In a recipient, mix oil, sugar and almonds. Add the backing powder.

Make small balls, sprinkle with cinnamon and flatten the balls with a fork.

Put your biscuits in the oven for 15 minutes.

Sprinkle also with cinnamon and just enjoy!

If you like to cook, try it! And more, the recipe is very easy to make and veryfast!







Audrey

Bob Marley

Lucien Rosa Samuel Ethique

Bob Marley

We are going to speak to you about Bob marley, simply because it's one of our favortit singer !

His life and his musical career

Bob Marley was born on sixth of february ninteen-fortyfive in Rhoden Hall near to Nin Miles Jamaica. His real name was Nesta Robert Marley, he took the name Bob when he was famous.

Bob had a difficlut chilhood, he had never really known his father because he worked as a plantation overseer but he was a captain too, he travelled a lot for his work and when he was in Jamaica, he worked at Kingston. Bob was six years old, his father wanted than Bob came to Kingston for study. His mother didn't recieve any news of his son, she decided to come to Kingston and she found Bob in the street. When he was a teenager, Bob left the country side to live in the ghetto of Kingston. There he met Neville Livingston and Winston Hubert Mclntosh. Our three friends began to sing in the street, Bob recored two songs but he didnt have success. In nineteen-sixtythree, they created a band with Junior Braithwaite, The Wailers!

In ninteen-sixtysix Bob has got married to Rita Anderson, he began to interest himself to the ''religion'' Rastafari. It's Mortimer Planno, a jamaican's rasta, who had learned this culture to Bob.

The next years were hard for the Wailers because the Rocksteady song wasn't very like by the public. They began to be a little famous in the Usa thanks to Johnny Nash. They made a lot of songs in Jamaica and in England but they weren't very recognized. Bob created a personal label Tuff Gong and they recorded their first album Trench Town Rock, it was their first local success.

With their new producteur, Blackwell, they played and made tour in England, but Neville Livingston and after Winston Hubert Mclntosh left the band. He needed to reform a groupe and he found many musicians and chorists as his wife, Joe Higgs, the Barrett's brother, Tyrone and more. The Wailers was hencefoth the name of the accompanying.

The eightteen July nineteen- seventyfive, They made a live at London and Bob sang No Woman No Cry for a wife in the public who cry because the violence in the ghetto. It was their first international succsess! After that Bob chained the success with his song like I shot the Sheriff.

The three december ninteen-seventysix, Bob, his wife, his productor were attack by terrorist. Bob received many bullets, Rita was touch on the head but she survived. Two days after, Bob mad the big concert ''Smile Jamaica'', he showed his injury to the public, he sang for the freedom of Jamaica and black people and it's his certainly his biggest performance in his life! When the reporter asked him: '' Why do you made the concert despite yours injury'' he responded: ''the people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?"

Marley came out of Jamaica for England in at the end of the years nineteen-seventysix. He made two albums Exodus and Kaya, Exodus was on the top chart for many weeks( fivtysix exactly ). Bob was very engaged politicly and he came in Africa for making concert, one for the independence of the Zimbabwe. During this periode of his life, he sang his most famous songs Jammin, African Unite, wake up and Live, Redemption Song, Forever Loving Jah and of course Buffalo Soldier.

Bob hurted himsefl at a match of football and he had a infection. His doctor advised him to do an amputation but because his religion he can't. In nineteen-eighty Bob had got five tumors whose three at the brains.

Bob made some tour in Usa, in New-Zeland, in France, he played his last concert at Pittsburgh in september. After that, he went in a hospital in Germany, he converted to the Ethiopian Orthodoxy.

Bob wanted to die in Jamaica but during the fly to the Usa his state worse and he went to the hospital in Miami he died the eleven May of the year nineteen-eightyone at the ago of thirtysix years old. His last words to his son Ziggy was ''Money can't buy life."

Bob Marley Family

During his life Bob had got many children with his wife or other woman. Now the most famous are, beacause they make reggae music, are Damian Marley, Ziggy Marley, Ky-mani Marley and Stephane Marley. In total he had twelve Kids!

Conclusion

Bob Marley is the biggest reggae songer of all time. He had to do discover the world of reaggae music at everybody, if one person was reponsible for breaking the barriers between reggae and pop world Bob Marley is your man!. He sells two millions album in the world!

If you would like a resum of the life of Bob Marley in french for a best comprehension I advise you to listend the song Marley by Danakil. 

 

 

Denmark

I am goig to talk about a beautifull country that I very like and where I spent my summer holidays few years ago. This country is Denmark.

The country of Denmark is composed of a peninsula called Jylland located at the north of Germany and fourhundred islands. Eigthy-two of them are inhabited. Zealand and Funen are the biggest. The language spoken there is the Danish and the national currency is the Danish krone.

The capital and biggest city of Denmark is Copenhagen, which is located on Zealand,you can find there the most famous monuments of Denmark. The little mermaid, for example, is the most visited monument of the town. By the way, she no longer wears her original head but a new one, because someone decapitated her and stole her head in 1964. The Amalienborg palace is a beautyful example of european architecture of the 18^th century. Of course, you can find numerous museums However, the best known place is probably the Tivoli Gardens. It is the very first amusement park of the world and also a wonderful botanic garden. Despite its age it is still very attractive for young and old because continously new thrill rides have been added to the old ones.

From the 8th to the 10th century the Danes were known as Vikings.

Denmark is a constitutional monarchy actually governed by queen Margrethe II. She was crowned the 14 January 1972.

Denmark is member of the European Union since 1973 (initially the European Economic Community).

Besides tourism, Denmark's economy includes agriculture and small-scale industry, such as breweries. The best known beer brand is perhaps Carlsberg.

Although infrastructure and public transport is well developped, the bicycle is the king of Denmark. Everywhere you can find cycle lanes and the Danes use them to such and extend that there are more traffic jams on them than on the roads.

If you don’t know where to go on holiday, I advise you to go there and visit for example the Tivoli Garden, that I found beautifull and entertaining.

Leana

D-Block and S-te-fan

If you know a little bit of hardstyle, you have to know D-Block and S-te-fan, one of the best DJs in the world I think.

D-Block is Diederick Bakker a man from Holland who was born in 1988.
And S-te-fan is Stefan den daas who is from Holland too. He's 5 years older than Diederick

They met in 2004 after they were yet good DJ with high influence from the "happy hardcore" and other master of the big party (like :Qlimax, DefQon, Decibel, Q-base, Reverze, Misteryland, thrillogy).
Their music is caracterised by big bass and melody. they have many inspirations like (I know it's strange) Bob Marley, Deepack, DJ isaac, Axwell and many more.
They remix a lot of songs

Actually they are classed in 73th position of the best DJs, a list made by Dj mag wich regroups every DJ in the world.

They made the Qlimax Anthem in 2009 (an anthem is THE song of the nights and is elected by loads of people) and they have also participed at all of the big events of hardstyle around the world and they will continue.

Valentin

A typical cake of the English-speaking countries

As excellent cook i will give you a recipe to make CHEESECAKE !
I know it's something very special but when you eat that you are just in the paradise.

You will need:
-175g any sweet wholemeal biscuit
-70g butter
-2 eggs
-340g mascarpone or other cream cheese
-115g fromage frais or soured cream
-85g caster sugar
-1 tablespoon cornflour

What to do:

First set the oven. Break the biscuits to make them into crumbs.
Second melt the butter in a saucepan over a low heat. Turn off the heat and stir the biscuit crumbs into the butter.
Third Grease the cake tin. Tip in the biscuit crumbs and press them down evenly to make a base. Now make the filling.
Fourth whisk egg yolks, mascarpone, fromage frais, sugar, and cornflour in a bowl until smooth.
Fifth wash and dry the whisk or electric mixer, then whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they are stiff and form peaks.
Sixth add the whisked egg whites to the cheese mixture. Fold them in gently with a spoon until they are well mixed.
Seventh spoon the filling on the base and bake for 50 minutes in 150 degrees.

Now i challenge, the one who makes me enjoy the best cheesecake.
Good Luck ;)



                                                    Nadia

Twinz - Conversation(1995)

 Tracklist: 

01) Conversation

02) Round & Round
03) Good Times
04) 4 Eyes 2 Heads
05) Jump Ta This
06) Eastside LB
07) Sorry I Kept You
08) Conversation #2
09) Journey Wit Me
10) Hollywood
11) 1st Round Draft Pick
12) Conversation #3
13) Don't Get it Twisted [ft. New Birth]
14) Pass it On     

In 1990's, The G-Funk become more and more famous, thanks to Dr Dre's "The Chronic" And Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Doggystyle" albums. 

After the big succes of his album "Regulate ....G Funk Era" on  Def Jam label, Warren G decides to produce a CD for the group Twinz on this same label.

Twinz is a duo formed by Deon "Tripp Loc" & Dewayne "Wayniac" Williams that come from Long Beach,California. In 1995, they release their first and only album: "Conversation". This album is a G-Funk classic. It lasts only fourty minutes.

Warren G,who produce thirteen track on fourteen, puts his best productions for this CD, with deep bass , acute melody & funk and soul sample.

One of the higlights of this album are the chorus, they are amazing on every track(for me the bests track are Eastside LB, Journey With Me & Good Times, but all are great)

I decide to speak about this album because it's for me one of the best ever made. I like relaxing on G-Funk CD and this one is perfect for that. For me the best def jam release, followed by Warren G's "Regulate...G-Funk Era" & Rihanna's " Rated R"

this photo is a photo of the copy that i buy.This album is rare: you can find used album for a very good price, but you can't find a new(sealed) under 65 dollars!

Dylan

It is the second solo album Soprano, (because in fact it is part of a group called "Psy4 de la rime"). I love the music even if it's more pop and a little electro. The lyrics are really well recognizes the writing of Soprano.One of my favorite songs is "Hiro" she talks to Hiro and he would do with his power in the series Heroes.

Early,  the album was to be called "la colombe et le corbeau", but he cut in two album because there were too many texts is the first album and the second "le corbeau" to be released in 2011.

 

 

The list of songs: 

01 La Colombe Et Le Corbeau
02 Crazy
03 Darwa
04 Sur la lune Feat Constantine Windaman
05 Hiro
06 Starting Block Feat Redk (Carpe Diem)
07 Chateaux De Sable Feat Awa Imani
08 Je Rêvais
09 Ce qu'on laisse a nos mômes
10 Speed
11 Je serais là
12 On A Besoin De Toi Feat Amadou et Mariam
13 A La Hussen Bolt Feat Psy 4 de la Rime -
14 Accroches toi a mes ailes

Zinedine Zidane : Return on an exceptional career

Zinedine Yazid Zidane is born the 23rd of June 1972 in Marseille. He's a French international footballer and named among the biggest football players of all time and listed among 125 better still living worldwide players in 2004. Playing the post of offensive middle, he was the compere of prestigious European clubs, as Juventus of Turin and Real Madrid, with which he won many national and international titles.

He played in four different clubs during his career. In Cane since 1988 to 1992, in Bordeaux since 1992 to 1996, in Juventus since 1996 to 2001 and in Real Madrid since 2001 to 2006.

Zidane comes of an Algerian family. He is married to Veronica Lentisco and is father of four boys. He signs his first licence in 10 years in a club near his cartier. He played in France since his seventeen years.

Famous number 10 of Overalls, he puts an end to his career further to the World cup in 2006 , in the course of which he distinguishes itself and gets title of better player of the worldwild.

He becomes quickly the idole of all supporters and is wooed by all patrons.

The 9th July on 2006, he plays his last match on the occasion of the final of the World Cup comparing Italy in France. He shows himself in a ambivalent way by registering his 31^th purpose under the French vest by a successful "panenka", but also by his eviction on red card this time for a headbutt to Marco Materazzi's thorax.

He is now the sponsor of the European Association against Leucodystrophies

( ELA ). Since 2001, he is also "Ambassadeur de Bonne Volonté" of the Program of United Nations for development beside Ronaldo with whom he organizes since 2003: the Match against Poverty, match of football which unites the biggest names of football and the harvested funds of which finance plans of conflict against poverty across the world.

Zidane, a player in the impressive honours list and a personality who stays and who will stay in the heart of the French.

He thinks now of the possibility of becoming coach. Anything is still made but the thing who is sure is that Zizou is always there!!!!!

                                 MARION

Jeux d'enfants

Jeux d'enfants is one of our favourite movie! It's a french romantic comedy directed in 2003 by Yann Samuell. The two principal actors are Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard.

Yann Samuell is a French film director and scriptwriter. He was a storyboard before becoming a director. He has first realised a few short films but Jeux d'enfants is his first feature film.

This story talks about two children : Julien and Sophie, both being 8 years old. Julien must live with his mother's disease who has a cancer and Sophie is rejected by her whole classroom because oh her origine. Naturally they make friends with each other and become inseparable. They decide to create a game (named cap ou pas cap) where one gives a challenge to the other and it's relative to tricking the adults and so on.

This will continue until they grow up but Sophie begins to be tired of these little challenges who are more and more cruel. On the contrary, Julien refuses to become mature and to recognize that they fell in love with each other. Finally they decide as a last challenge not to meet during ten years.

Both begin a new life ; Sophie is married with a famous rich footballer while Julien has a wife and two children. In spite of their great and comfortable life, neither of them can forget the other. But the day passes. Ten years later they meet again, start playing again their game and they won't quit anymore.

We have really loved this movie because it’s romantic and funny. We know since the beginning that the characters have to be together but they can’t tell each other that they are very in love. We can feel their emotions and at the same time it’s very funny because of the game, sometimes dangerous and cruel ! We can see their evolution from the beginning to the end. The end of the story is very surprising, you’ll see but so romantic, too.

Manon & Induja

Sonisphere Festival Jonschwil 2010

Thursday, 17th June 2010. Everybody was sleeping at home and taking advantage of a well deserved rest. But not us. We had an appointment at the railway station of Lausanne at thirteen o’clock and then took the train to Jonschwil, a little village (3000 inhabitants) in the canton of St-Gall. Here took place the Sonisphere Festival, a very important metal festival, which takes place in many places in Europe every summer. The “Jonschwil edition” took place on a field; 70’000 metal fans replaced a few dozens of cows during two days.

(Jonschwil on Google Maps: http://maps.google.ch/maps?hl=fr&q=jonschwil&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Jonschwil,+Wil,+Saint-Gall&gl=ch&ei=6CHETJK7A4GXOoHM8f0L&ved=0CBoQ8gEwAA&z=13) 

24 bands were scheduled on two days:

-          6 on Thursday for a “Warm Up Party” (The Sorrow, Job For A Cowboy, 36 Crazy Fists, Unearth, Over Kill, Airbourne)

-         18 on Friday on two stages (Smoke Blow, Devil Driver,  Hell Yeah, Atreyu, As I Lay Dying, Anthrax, Bullet For My Valentine, Alice in Chains, Stone Sour, Slayer, Megadeth, Motörhead, Rise Against, Metallica, Volbeat, Amon Amarth, 3 Inches of Blood, Dear Superstar)

It was the first time in history that the “Big Four of Trash”, the four most important trash metal bands (Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica) played in the same day on the same stage.

Already in the train, we met many other metal fans who we were ready to pass three mad days.  We ate potato chips, drank beer and sang metal songs during the whole journey. Some people in the train were a bit scared by seeing all these young fans dressed in black. Finally, after a 4 hours-trip and after walking for a quarter of an hour, we arrived! The “Devil’s field”, where we would see many of the biggest metal bands of all times!

Just when we arrived at the ticket check, the rain began to fall. And, of course, the nice green meadow started to turn into mud… It quickly became a real mess. We installed our tent and then walked in the direction of the stages.

From the end of the afternoon, the first bands started to play. At one hour in the morning, the Warm Up Party was finished. All the metal fans went under the tents where there was…metal disco! And many metal fans, dressed like cow-boys, Angus Young, Devil or anything funny, sang and danced on AC/DC, Metallica, and others big groups. It was really funny and friendly. Everybody spoke with everybody, drank beer, spoke again, and drank again and again. At 4 o’clock AM, we went to our tent and tried to sleep with our wet, cold and disgusting clothes. We slept five hours.

At 9 o’clock, we got up and went back to the stages. We stayed there all day listening to the bands, drinking some beer, eating sausages and buying a few T-Shirts. It did not stop raining between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon.

At last, around 6:00 PM the rain stopped falling, and, before the Motörhead show, we moved to find a good place near the main stage for their show, and also for the Metallica show, for which we had been waiting for several weeks. So, after the Motörhead concert, which was absolutely great, we waited another hour with the band Rise Against.

Finally, at 9:00 PM we could hear the song “The Ecstasy of Gold” from the film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, which is used as an introduction to every concert of Metallica. And the band (Lars Ulrich – drums, Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, Robert Trujillo – bass and James Hetfield – rhythm guitar + vocals) appeared on the stage. Then followed 2 hours of pure awesomeness. They played a lot of their old hits, like Fade To Black, Master Of Puppets, Enter Sandman and many others and some songs from their last album, Death Magnetic. Although our feet were stuck in 15 centimeters of mud, the atmosphere was more than great.

(The song starts at 1:00)

After these two epic hours, we stayed to listen to the last bands of the festival, especially Amon Amarth (Sweden) and 3 Inches Of Blood (Canada). During these last two concerts, we burnt the last drops of our energy before going back to the metal bar for the last time. At 4 o’clock we walked to our tent and decided to sleep a bit, but we couldn’t sleep in the tent because we were too muddy. So we tried to sleep on a military tarpaulin placed on the ground, but the rain began to fall again. In consequence, after checking the trains’ timetable, we dissembled the tent and took the first train to Lausanne at 6:00 AM.

The return trip was quite an adventure too, as we didn’t want to dirty the coaches. Consequently, we had to stay in the little space at the extremity of a coach for the whole trip. And when we had to change trains in Biel, it was quite hard to run on the platforms while carrying our bags, the tent and the big (25 m²)  tarpaulin... But we finally got back home and slept to recover from these two crazy days. 

The field before the festival

 

The field during the festival, with the two stages

The camping after the festival, on saturday morning

Robin & Jules

Les petits mouchoirs

Les petits mouchoirs is a movie realised by Guillaume Canet.

Guillaume Canet is an actor, a movie director and a scriptwriter. He is french, and he is 37 years old.
We are used to see him in movie, like Jeux d'Enfants, Joyeux Noël or Ensemble C'est Tout. But this time, he is behind the camera. It isn't his first movie as a director, but it's the first that I see.

The movie is at the cinema since the 20th October 2010, and the actors are Marion Cotillard, Jean Dujardin, François Cluzet, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Laurent Lafitte, Valérie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot, Joel Dupuch and Anne Marivin. Guillaume Canet wanted to make a movie with some actors that he well know.

This movie tells a story about a group of friends living a drama. Ludo (Jean Dujardin) has an accident in moto, and he is seriously injured. But his health is stable, so his friends decide to go on holliday like every years in a house beside the see.
But the stay don't happen like usual; some secrets, confessions and olds conflicts back to the surface and this people haven't relaxing hollidays.
The title mean that the characters have to remove their softs that they put on their secrets and their lies.

I really like this movie. It's emovant, funny, ironic. We can identify to them,  feeling their sorrow and their joy... Every character is interesting, every have his own problems. They are all connect to Ludovic, they all think about him.

Guillaume Canet put a dramatic surrounding at the beginning and the end of the story, but between there are a lot of jokes, funny scenes and we laught during the movie. But we also cry. I cry a lot of time! I'm sensible, it's true, but everyone cry in the cinema. The end is really surprising.. But I won't say what happening, go to see the movie! ;-)

Pauline