Amy Buzzlightyear

language learning, english teaching, welsh, lithuanian, small houses, music, politics, thoughts. sometimes I blog in full sentences at amybuzzlightyear.blogspot.com.au

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Ice Skating in Central Park

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The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.

Helen Bevington (via petitbabelfish)

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"When they say you can’t. Then you must."

[amybuzzlightyear]

reading a language: wow i'm fluent

writing in a language: ok this could be better

listening to a language: why

[observando]

Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

Tim O’Brien (via observando)

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I swear this language flows like an ocean when you write. some of my favourite words

[hannigraham]

William Shakespeare, everyone’s heard of him. You’d have to be stuck in a cave on Mars with your eyes and ears closed shut to not of heard of him.

Adaptations of original works

R O M E O  A N D  J U L I E T || [read]

Romeo and Juliet (2013)

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

H A M L E T || [read]

Hamlet (2000)

O T H E L L O || [read]

Othello (1995)

A  M I D S U M M E R ’ S  N I G H T  D R E A M || [read]

Were the World Mine (2008)

A Midsummer’s Night Rave (2002)

Get Over It (2001)

A Midsummer’s Night Dream (1999)

M A C B E T H || [read]

Macbeth (1948)

Macbeth (2006)

Macbeth (2009)

T H E  T W O  G E N T L E M E N  O F  V E R O N A || [read]

A Spray of Plum Blossoms (1931)

T H E  T E M P E S T || [read]

The Tempest (2010)

T H E  T A M I N G  O F  T H E  S H R E W || [read]

The Taming of the Shrew (1994)

The Taming of the Shrew (1964)

K I N G  L E A R || [read]

King Lear (1971)

Other works that I couldn't find adaptations for

Sonnets

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Julius Caesar

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

Inspired by Shakespeare

Warm Bodies (2013)

Isi Life Mein! (2010)

Hamlet the Vampire Slayer (2008)

Hamlet 2 (2008)

She’s the Man (2006)

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Pizza My Heart (2005)

King of Texas (2002)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

The Lion King (1994)

Prospero’s Books (1991)

China Girl (1986)

Tempest (1982)

West Side Story (1961)

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"The best revenge against bullies is absolutely, resolutely, never to let them change who you are. Know that whatever bullies say or do – it comes from their weakness, not yours." —Tom Hiddleston [x]

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Tasiilaq, Greenland

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Most honest book review ever.

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When students encounter teachers who see things in them that they have not yet discovered in themselves, they remember those teachers. Those teachers helped them become who that they were meant to be. These teachers didn’t train them; they educated them.

Education builds character (via gjmueller)

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Video

[decemberpaladin]

I love how she almost drops it until she smells it and that flashbulb memory hits.

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“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real … Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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Notice she says “who” it was and not “what” it was.

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I don’t give a shit what anyone else says; plush toys have souls.

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AFGHANISTAN.

The Kunar province is green and fertile. Agriculture here is very productive. Today, people still cultivate olive trees here - a good alternative to poppy fields. 

Credit: The Other Afghanistan by dw.de

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[unconditionedconsciousness]

When the time comes for you to make a change, to grow, to do your life in a different way, the universe will make you so uncomfortable, so unhappy, you will eventually have no choice. If you insist on staying in a place you no longer belong in, if you do not grow the courage to do what is necessary to propel yourself forward, you will suffer the consequences, whatever they may be.

Iyanla Vanzant (via unconditionedconsciousness)

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[amybuzzlightyear]

I want to see mountains again

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In various schools in Uganda, and some other parts of Africa, children as young as five are punished for speaking African languages, indigenous languages and mother tongues at school. The modes of punishment differ. The most common one in Uganda is wearing a dirty sack until you meet someone else speaking their mother tongue and then you pass the sack on to them. In some schools, there are specific pupils and students tasked with compiling lists of fellow pupils and students speaking mother tongues. This list is then handed over to a teacher responsible for punishing these language rule-breakers. According to Gilbert Kaburu, some schools have aprons that read: “Shame on me, I was speaking vernacular” handed over to an offender of the No Vernacular rule, who then is tasked with finding the next culprit to give the apron. Most of the punishments, in their symbolism emphasise the uselessness of the African languages. Commenting on a photo of two children in Uganda wearing dirty sacks as punishment for speaking their mother tongues, Zimbabwean writer, Tendai Huchu says: “That sums up our self loathing and inferiority complex. Junot Diaz once said we do a better job of enforcing white supremacy ourselves than white supremacists ever could. I should add, notice how the punishment consists of wearing sack-cloth. The image is telling. You are rags if you speak your own language.” Halima Hosh, agreeing with Tendai Huchu opines: “It’s outrageous. What a slave mentality that a colonial language is considered higher or better/more worth than their own local language. Unbelievable. Do the Europeans learn any African language in school? No. Why not? Because we are not proud of our heritage, not proud of our languages, not proud of Black African history. These teachers need to be fired.

This is a serious problem. Read the entire article here: http://thisisafrica.me/schools-punishing-children-speaking-african-languages/ (via linglife)

Languages don’t generally become endangered because people just don’t really feel like speaking them anymore: it’s often much more brutal. And similar methods for repressing indigenous languages happen all over the world: this reminded me of a memorable quote from a man in Alaska “Whenever I speak Tlingit, I can still taste the soap.” 

(via allthingslinguistic)