may2007
May 2007
Arts:
San Diego Opera
Documentaries:
Himalaya with Michael Palin (BBC)
A flash view of peoples, culture, politics, and landscape from the mountains of Khyber pass to the Brahmaputra river delta.
China from the Inside (PBS),
Modern China in the country side: democracy, the party, women and marriage, pollution and environment, and freedom justice.
It is appalling to learn that China is the only country in the world with suicide rates higher in women than in men.
Incidents of the month:
* our escalivada, and to be more precise the red pepper, broke our pyrex tray. No escalivada for lunch!
Our picture of the month:
Tangerine harvest, 192.
What did we learn:
the BRIC countries
* One of the members of the team fainted after a blood drawn. The nurse -Eric said: he is back! The afflicted says: it was 3 tubes, vampires!
What caught our attention:
We meet Dawa, a nepalese guide who when he was 9 years old and working as porter for a catalan expedition, was taught the "baixant de la font del gat" song. He remembered every word as soon as he met us. We ended up singing the song together in a party with our neighbours. By the way, the potato omelette that we brought to the party had an unprecedented success.
What did we discover: