Exercice de style
Posted on October 26, 2011 by admin
J’adore apprendre. Je sais ça sonne cliché dit comme ça, mais c’est vrai en fait. J’ai toujours adoré l’école, les documentaires, la lecture, les découvertes, les voyages. J’suis une grande curieuse en quête de toujours plus de connaissances. Depuis cette année je prends des cours du soir à la prestigieuse université de New York NYU (oui, comme dans Gossip Girl). Ils ont des centaines de programmes super originaux, enseignés par des professionnels. En un mot, ça défonce. Depuis que je vis à NYC j’ai toujours voulu aller à la fac, améliorer mon anglais et mettre mon temps au profit d’une cause, d’une passion ou d’une curiosité. Au final j’ai pris des cours de business, d’entertainment, et depuis samedi, je prends des cours d’écriture du voyage. Prometteur n’est-ce pas quand on voit le nom de mon blog. Hum. Notre prof, journaliste gay new-yorkais, a plein de conseils en tous genres… Il a fait le tour du monde et s’est retrouvé dans des contrés improbables. Un livre tout aussi improbable est sorti suite à ses déplacements, Gay Travels in The Muslim World. Oh well. La session ne représente que 12 heures de cours, mais c’est assez pour booster mes pensées et me donner envie de vous raconter ce qu’on y a fait…
Déjà, prendre des cours en anglais c’est balaise. Mais n’importe quel cours en fait. Même à la salle de sport, je galère. A la fac, c’est un peu moins compliqué que de déchiffrer un cours de yoga in english, mais ça reste challenging. Et puis il faut t’exprimer. Ce sont souvent des petits groupes ou chaque élève a un rôle important. On se présente, on échange, on fait des exposés etc… Et pour ce cours, basé sur l’écriture, fatalement on écrit. Puis on lit. J’ai jamais eu à écrire avec style en anglais. Jamais en tout cas pour que ce soit lu devant toute une classe. Alors voilà, après s’être présentés, notre professeur nous a demandé de faire deux travaux d’écriture… Pour chacun, on avait 15 minutes. Évidement, je parle de New York dans mes écrits, alors que les autres étudiants parlent de tout sauf des États Unis… D’ailleurs, ils fantasment totalement sur Paris, mais disent que les Français ont des odeurs corporelles bien trop fortes parce qu’on n’a pas l’air conditionné et qu’on met pas de déodorant. Ils étaient très sérieux hein quand ils m’ont sorti ça… Mais bon. Je les ai calmé en lisant le texte ci-dessous. Je préfère puer des aisselles et avoir des valeurs justes.
Exercice : écrire ‘Something that says everything about a culture‘
People in Paris, and France as a whole, are not really friendly. That’s Ok because they’re known for it. They’ve even been called the “worst traveler in the world.” Or “the most annoying,” I don’t remember. In Paris, if you want to buy something from a shop or order a café at a bistrot, you’ll barely get a “hello” and a “thank you” from the staff. After living there for 22 years, I got used to unfriendly service. So when I arrived to New York, I was shocked by this bonne humeur, shinning all over the city. I was like “where is the trick?” Why is this waiter always checking on me at the restaurant, refilling my glass of water and giving me fresh pepper…when I could do this myself? Why is this lady at H&M helping me find the right size to fit my petite frame. Why do I see smiling faces in every business I go into? Those people cannot be that happy to serve me. Then I realized that good customer service is the key to good business in New York. Because at the end of the day, YOU’re the one with some cash in your pockets. You’re the one that will pay this meal and ad a tip to this waiter. And that’s mainly why he is smiling like in he is auditioning for a toothpaste commercial. Hum..maybe also because they like the French accent. In the Big Apple, I realized very quickly that when you’re ready to spend money, everybody will smile at you. Because yes, America is a society built on consuming. It’s a society built on profit. Almost everything here is about money. Well, not everything. Sometimes you can actually find real human emotion. But you gotta pay it first.
L’exercice 2 était rigolo. Il fallait décrire un repas à New York utilisant les 5 sens…
Getting food in New York is pretty easy. You can’t walk anywhere without bumping into a halal cart, a diner or a salad bar. Getting GOOD food in New York is a bit more challenging. And with my 30-minute lunch break at work, I have to chose what I eat very quickly and carefully…. And today I feel like getting a soup. The ‘Pret a Manger’ on my office’s block has a large choice of healthy meals. But don’t get it twisted. The name sounds French… but the taste has nothing to do with France. The soup du jour is the tomato basil. I’m already picturing a delicious red liquid, tasty, hot and full of flavor from Italy. Well, I always do that, imagine what the meal I’m ordering would look like in its original country…but it rarely tops my expectation. Anyway. I’m daydreaming about tomatoes and time flies. I now have 23 minutes to eat. After giving me a bowl of soup and a hot pita bread, the beautiful Indian lady working the cash register gives me back my change and tells me, “Bon appetit.” Well, I guess that’s what she said. I go and sit in the park, as usual. A bit of green in my grey routine. The soup is grassy but at least it tastes okay. Two pigeons look at me like I’m kind of a life-saver, while throwing them pieces of my bread. Weirdly, after eating half of the meal, I feel full like as if I ate I just ate a Big Mac combo meal from McDonald’s. I wonder what they put in it, but it’s obviously it’s not only tomato and basil. Noise of constructions and horns in my ears, smell of a NY street in the nose and half of my pita in the hands, I think it’s time to end this break. I throw the rest of my pita bread on the floor. Hey no disrespect at all. But I know I just made the day of those two pigeons.
Signée The Travelin Girl zarma bilingue
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