This is Chicago’s mascot. Everywhere, all the time!

Sorry I m really late for my blog. I ll try to actualize it during the long winter days.
This article in the below talk about my trip in the New Orleans this summer.

On sunday we went to the church and not just any church. First you shoud look at the picture carefully. Baptist CHRUCH unbelievable.How is it possible to make a mistake as big as that? I have no answer.

The night before we met french people in the street and one of them was telling us about this one because she had lived in New Orleans and she knew a friend who played guitar for the gospel singers. Also we followed her advice and we weren’t dissapointed. It was amazing, the church  was small inside. We were the first one to arrive on time. We settled in our chairs and were dumfounded by the spectacle. There were just african american people inside and every 10 minute a new group of people went inside and enthusiastically greeted theirs friends, hugging people. There was a warm ambiance before that the priest comes.

The music was too loud, the guitar and the battery were electricals.
after thirty minutes, the ambiance was surrealist. I can remember one of the african bunch was beautiful. She held her baby with one arm and with the other one she moved on the music’s rythm, singing . ” Oh my god….”
Few moments after this scene, an old women who seemed to be the boss of this place brought to me Bathroom’s paper telling me that I should put this in my ears for protecting my ears from the loud music.
After 5 minutes we did it most People got this and were singing with pink paper in theirs ears.

It was cherry on the cake ( I know it’s a french idiom but I try to use it and I  saw that  it works in USA as well.) For the end I can see that it’s one of my favorite moment in the New Orleans may be because it was a true and authentic moment.

Just to keep in mind that there were a lot of amazing scenes of life to pay attention.

This guy was sitting here all the day like a lot of people, who are pay up to stay in the street to show an advertisement for a pub or a shop.

I like the wall.

It’s this to be fashionable in New Orleans. Look at the customize car!

This guy seems happy. I stole this picture and in the same time he was looking me proud for getting a tatoo.

Tatoo are really fashionable. A lot of american people have one or more. I saw when I was in Denver some hispanic people with a tatoo on the face : a tear and for differents gang it means that you have kill someone. “Charming “when you are in the bar and that one person with that carry you  a cofee. I even saw an american girl with a big tatoo on her breast “Pierre qui mousse n’amasse pas mousse” really freak , does it?

Still an article … but I would like to keep my souvenir

Agnès and François

keep going… a small surprise

I love it

héhé my cowboy

without comments …

Baptiste surronded by the jungle … so risky ( small talk about your skill to swim like a dauphin. Ok more discuss about this because it’s funny. One day we were in Michigan during the summer where there were beautiful beaches with big dunes. We passed our time to enjoy the sun and the sea and fortunately there were big waves and I followed baptiste to swim in the waves. He slided on the top of the waves. After 10 minutes I was behind him and when I saw him like this his face surronded by foam, I heard a girl was saying to her friends this magic sentence : ” Look at him, he swims like a dauphin “It was so funny I almost died, I was doubled up with laughter.)

This sculptor has a big place in my collect of awful scuptor that I have already seen in the USA.

In the center of New Orleans completely weird so different of the rest.

We went to this bar to breakfast. Yammy ! Some true croissants, my first time after 4 months.

We stopped on the bank of the lake. There were a lot of seagulls and then it was very windy which gave to the lake a weird color and a look very wild.

still near to the nature :

My favorite movie, watch out it’s look to a scary movie

(july 22 ) After our trip to the New Orleans we had few free days without guests and Baptiste made me a surprise.
We went to see a dance event in Chicago where they are a lot of dance event really interesting. I didn’t know that Chicago was famous for dancing.
It was magic. They were many companies and we could see a lot of different styles.
But one of them was really amazing after 5 minutes I felt in the place a positive energy, I had got the goose bumps.
It was beautiful like the things that I used to see in Paris in Chaillot Teater. I was so happy.
I can say though it was a nice evening. Also this is the first time that we saw American People wearing well and fancy.

Lois Greenfield

July 22-25,2009

http://www.jazzdanceworldcongress.org/

FRIDAY, JULY 24
Giordano Jazz Dance Company appears on every program, tonight offering Christopher Huggins’s wicked fast Pyrokinesis. River North Chicago Dance Company shows off Frank Chaves’s daredevil Take a Seat.

Jazz dance today covers a lot of ground. Diehards can still expect sky-high kicks and superhuman layouts from the festival Gus Giordano started in 1990—but this year’s edition also includes tap as well as works of unjazzy introspection and hip-hop-inflected social commentary. Here’s a list of some highlights. For full lineups, go to jazzdanceworldcongress.org. The festival opens with the premiere screening of a documentary about Giordano, Gus: An American Icon, Wed 7/22, 6 PM, only open to opening-night ticket holders. The festival’s jazz dance choreography competition finals run Thu-Sat 6:15 PM, only for ticket holders.—Laura Molzahn

Through 7/25: Wed-Sat 8 PM, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph, 312-334-7777,

To see a fireworks we went to friend’s house , Lizzy and Diego who are an fanzy apartment in Dowtown. It was a nice souvenir and a good experience. I know now that I could’nt live in these tall building. I find it nice but I don’t feel good even if  there were  big windows and their  apartment was really nice. It’s wierd to live in but some People are used to.

The Declaration of Independence

I started to interrest me when in class I watched  “The poursuit of happiness “an american movie with Will Smith and we was talking about it in class. I also said ,  that for me it was a good example of American film with Happy end, with many feelings , the kind of movie which make you crying. I like these kind of movie now and then.  But my teacher said me  a thing that I didn’t realize before. “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence. These three aspects are listed among the “inalienable rights” of man. I find it verry intersting to try to understand America. It was obvious but in the Declaration I didn’t know. I would seem strange but I like this a lot.  My father told me that in America everyone follows a dream, and people talks about this above all the taxidrivers.

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock