Thursday 15 October 2009

We had a good time today, didn't we?


Today's lesson was quite nice. We ended up talking about Autumn. Patricia broke the ice and said that she identified Autumn with the invasion of dull colours in all the shop windows: browns, blacks, greys... Nerea joined in the conversation and said that for her Autumn was a synonyme of sadness. It was just then when Reme asked the difference between "blue" and "sad". For Victoria it wasn't sadness the dominant feeling in Autumn, but a breed of calm and silence. It was Lola who confessed that she loved Autumn, the smell in the air, the damp atmosphere and especially the rustling noise of the fallen leaves under her feet on her solitary walks in the woods. She had just said the magic words and now we were all in the right mood for listening to "The Autumn Leaves". I think nobody has sung that song like Eva Cassidy: love, passion, nostalgia and a good dose of romanticism. Sit back and watch this absolutely gorgeous video with Eva Cassidy singing in the background.

Have a look at the lyrics if you need them. You can also find out more information about Eva Cassidy. She died very young, at the age of 33, before she could even imagine that her music and voice would be recognized worldwide.

4 comments:

  1. Hi all!

    I'm so sorry but I couldn't go yesterday because when I woke up I didn't feel very well but now I'm better.
    I have to say I don't agree with Nerea. I don't really identified Autumn with sadness because we can do a lot things in this season not only in Summer...ok, no beach, no fairs...but, for example, we can go to the countryside because it's not very hot in Autumn; we can meet with friends in a bar; we can go to the cinema, we can go on holiday, etc....We usually identified Summer with fun but we can also have fun in any season of the year and not to be synonyme of sadness except as a personal feeling, so maybe I'd describe Autumn like Victoria...a breed of calm and silence.
    Well, the song is very beautiful and the lyrics is short and easy, more or less, hehe. I think "Nostalgia" is a good word to describe it.

    Have a good weekend!!!

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  2. Nice to hear from you again, Jess. We missed you at school yesterday. We had a nice discussion about seasons and moods. Too bad you missed it. Hope you get well soon and we can have you back in class next week. Enjoy your weekend.

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  3. Hi, class
    I want to tell you that for me autumn is (like Luís says to us every morning) TIME TO START. We're students and we have rested in the summer time, but summer has gone... and now it's time to work as hard as we can with energy,full of hope and enjoying it. If we try to get it, WE ARE RICH!!!
    Trini

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