august2008
August 2008
Arts:
in La Jolla Summerfest. We do not miss our summer concert with an educated crowd and great music.
The Formosa String Quartet playing Ravel was really worth it!
Movies:
-3 movies for the long weekend:
La casa de Bernarda Alba: Garcia Lorca's last tragic play
-Times and Winds: Beautiful yet disturbing stills of youngsters growing up in rural Turkey
-Le Cercle Rouge, a classic film noir
Documentaries:
in search of Trojan War -Michael wood. We are getting ready for our September's cultural activity.
Incident of the month:
Roger's 70th Bday party, where we met family and friends
What caught our attention:
The Olympics in Beijing came and went. Where did the amateur spirit of le Baron de Coubertin go? The winner of the games was Coca-cola!
What caught our pocket:
Sony e-book reader: no more dead trees at home
What did we learn:
Hiragana: the first ten symbols
Our picture of the month:
Intrepid walk in Cuyamaca Forest where large trees are struggling to survive after last october's fire
with some of the consequences of the hike
