Laura's diaries

Friday 12 February 2010

Like every morning, I read the newspaper and the main title was: « When the local accent becomes an unavoidable thing for advertising. »
I read the entire article and I found that original because everybody has an accent. As for me, I also have an accent but I can’t hear it. I noticed it last summer, when I was on holiday. It was in France and a lot of French said to me: “I can’t understand you” or “Why don’t you speak normally ?”. I was shocked and I tried to explain to them that I spoke normally but they thought that I joked !
So, in this journal, they said that many companies use a local accent in their advertising to attract the people’s attention. (Like Robert Mailleux)
In conclusion, I find that amusing because everybody has an accent and each accent is beautiful and funny.


Saturday 13 February 2010

It’s 9 p.m. . I’m surfing on Internet and I’m reading an article about the swimming-pool in Marche. Yesterday, around 9.30 a.m., there was an explosion in this swimming-pool. Luckily, there are only two injured people. In fact, the swimming-pool was in renovation and apparently, an electrical apparatus was the cause of the explosion. All that to say that since one month, there are a lot of disasters in the world.
First, there is the earthquake in Haïti where more than 200 000 people died.
Second, there is an explosion in a flat in Liège. Here, there are 15 deaths and third, there is this explosion in Marche.
In summary, since the beginning of 2010, I find that the world goes wrong. In only two months, there were a lot of disasters.
Now, I’m going to hope that it will be better in the future.

Sunday 14 February 2010

Today, it was the St. Valentine’s Day but it was also the carnival in Bastogne? It’s midnight and I just have came back home. It was a pretty day. Moreover, I was with my friends. I’m going to describe this day:
First of all, I got ready at midday. I was wearing two jumpers and a par of tights under my trousers because there was a lot of snow. At 2.p.m., I left my house to go to Bastogne. The cortege began at 3 p.m.. There was a lot of music. Afterwards, we went to the marquee where the vibe was great. It was so a good day that I have never been feeling cold.


Monday 15 February 2010

As I said Saturday, the world is going wrong. Today it’s also a bad day. Effectively, in Halle, there was a collision between two trains. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear but investigators said that it maybe would be the weather, a human error or a computer error. But we know that it’s because one of the trains didn’t respect the traffic lights. At the moment, we don’t know more about the deaths.
So, I think that there is not enough safety. Moreover, the Belgian national railway company’s manager said that if the trains had automatic brakes, the drama could have been avoided.