An uncanny story

When I was a child I used to live in the family’s country house all my summer’s holidays. Very often I felt unhappy because I was away from home and I missed my family, especially my mum. That means I was homesick. In fact, I hadn’t any reasons for feeling bad because my grandmother and my aunt made me feel comfortable at home by doing all that I wanted and even buying me all I asked for. Although I was only nine, I can remember perfectly how they pampered me all the time. My cousins made fun of me about my sadness, specially, my cousin Maria used to tell me scary stories and silly tales in order to make me laugh.
One day, we were sitting down on a bench opposite the house, the sun was going down and there were wonderful colours and lights in the sky when several insects began to fly around us. Suddenly, we saw a humble-bee and Maria said: “you are lucky because this humble-bee is brown and a good thing will soon happen. But take care when you see a black humble-bee because then a bad thing will happen”. Although her words sounded as a joke I paid attention to her and I thought: “I wish my parents come soon!”
It was no longer than past eleven when I went to my room to sleep. Suddenly I heard a car. It stopped in front of the hause and after a while I could hear my mum’s voice. I jumped out of my bed and I run to give her a great big hug.
Some days after, in the evening, we were playing in front of the house again when I saw a black humble-bee flying around the light. I felt very bad and I was afraid for my family. After dinner my aunt was on the phone for a long time and when she finished she told me that my mum was in the hospital because she had had an accident.
Was it a coincidence or do you believe that some kind of animals can announce you positive or negative events?

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

Following the advice from the teacher and the classmate Island Castaway and Generation X, I decided to watch a film last week end. I think it is really useful in order to improve my English and besides it is amusing and interesting. In fact, I have never practiced so much like this course, writing on the blog, reading the texts from my classmates, watching films, and so on.
While I was looking for a film I though that I could be practical and watch the film “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” because I needed to watch it in order to make a comparison with the book.
To understand the film was not very easy for me, but I soon realized that in this film the silences, the looks, the light…were more important than the words. Watching the film, the feeling is the same as making a tour in a gallery of paintings, to enjoy repeatedly the beauty of light and shadow and colours. Most of the feelings and sensations of the characters are transmitted through the looks and expressions.
Soon the two main characters –Johannes Veemer and Grief – were involved in the same wavelength and they became very close. The most representative quote about this is when Grief, looking to herself in the painting, said “you looked inside me”.