Europe in Autumn

Oct 18, 1998 - © Roxanne Nelson

European Travel has been on hiatus for the past two months or so, and I would like to apologize to all of you who have been faithfully reading my articles. I recently moved from San Francisco to Seattle, and only now am settling down and getting back to work. Hopefully, I will be getting back into my usual routine, and have a new and exciting article on-line every two weeks.

One of my new co-workers left for a trip to England today. "But isn't it going to be cold there?" she was asked repeatedly by other co-workers. "And rainy?" People in Seattle generally don't seek out vacations where there's a lot of rain - enough of that at home. But she just smiled broadly and announced that she was going to have a wonderful time, and started listing all of the items she planned to buy.

She had good reason to smile. With the lower prices that come with autumn travel, she's going to have a lot more available cash to raid those English stores. Money formerly spent on airfare and hotel can now be used to stock up on Waterford and cashmere!

Autumn is a great time to plan a trip to Europe. Between mid-September and mid-December, prices decrease and crowds thin out. Instead of waiting two hours on line to get into the Uffizzi gallery, as you may find yourself doing on a July afternoon in Florence - come October, you may find that you have Botticelli's Birth of Venus all to yourself. You may find that your airfare has dropped several hundred dollars, all because you're flying in November instead of August. Of course there are also drawbacks, but the positive generally outweighs the negatives. The only things you're missing when you go to Europe in the fall are the crowds, high airfares and premium hotel rates.

Weather

October is generally an all-around, very pleasant month for travel. Weather conditions will vary depending on elevation and location, but unless you are heading to Northern Scandinavia, Moscow, or planning on an alpine trek, daytime temps will be comfortable enough for outdoor activity. In Paris, for example, there will be some days that are chilly and rainy, perfect weather for a visit to the Louvre. Other days will be warm and sunny, pleasant enough to sit out on the Champs Elysees with your café au lait, and watch the world go by. As October leads into November, days will become shorter, darker, and with an increased chill in the air. You may need to pack a warmer jacket, but it is highly unlikely that you will experience biting cold or snow, unless traveling into the mountains, Scandinavia or parts of Eastern Europe

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i'm angry to my fadher

aduhhh ..... today I was very tired, because so much work from school. I hope all these tasks are useful and add value for me .. that all the tasks I'm doing tasks that are not useless and I do it with sincerity in order to be rewarded. already had he, cape ... really!
good night all .

dear diary,
These days I am very very happy because all I did was not useless
night night for me to memorize the IPS will be repeated the next day, and the test was running smoothly, all of which I memorized last night was all there in the test questions.
and one great value! Emmmpp ..my joy!!.

I recently always imagined past, I remember when my father was still open stores in Cibaduyut, there I was playing with friends ... friends ... uuhhh he exclaimed when the subject lived there!!

This day I lay in bed, because I was sick, his illness had no signs, aduuuhh hot .. my body, my head dizzy ... really, hufht .. I hope this pain does not continue long. because later will be much missed lessons at school.

recently, always rain, rain I come home from school, school bags, books, shoes all .. wetness.
especially rain makes the body becomes less healthy. ya allah .. I hope you always continue to give health untuku. Aamiieen

mm ..........
Valentine's Day this time I was very sad, because no one had congratulated me ..!!! Valentine's Day
what else is giving chocolate does not exist at all!

mm ..,,
sad .... sad ... sad!
today I was really happy ... so, can meet a good brother .. banget .. do not feel we have not seen six months .. he's really close to my brother with me, he's where I vent, he's where I'd snitch all the problems, he was always there for me .. ya allah .. we may not destined for the separation.

mm,
sad ... sad ... sad ....
today I was really sad, I get angry my father, I do not accept me at my father scold, till until I nangis.semoga incident does not happen again.: '(

mm ...
These days my family all gathered at Grandma's house, there really is a lot of activities, from the beginning to make an ashtray out of clay, cassava planting trees, feeding chickens, picking green beans.
busy .............. it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Facing Ali

Three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali defeated almost every top fighter of the golden age of boxing and symbolized the sport for generations of fans. Now, ten of his acclaimed rivals pay tribute to perhaps the world’s most beloved and inspiring athlete in Facing Ali. From the moment he captured the gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics, the fighter who first came to prominence as Cassius Clay electrified the world and transformed the art of boxing. Articulate, handsome, charismatic and outspoken, he became an icon of the burgeoning civil rights movement and a hero to millions around the globe. A master showman and a brilliant strategist, Ali won as much by getting inside his opponents’ heads as by his astounding physical talents.

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Rapunzel

There were once a man and a woman who had long, in vain, wished for a child. At length it appeared that God was about to grant their desire. 
These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.
One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it. She quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.
Her husband was alarmed, and asked: 'What ails you, dear wife?'
'Ah,' she replied, 'if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.'
The man, who loved her, thought: 'Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will.'
At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her - so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before.
If he was to have any rest, her husband knew he must once more descend into the garden. Therefore, in the gloom of evening, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.
'How can you dare,' said she with angry look, 'descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief? You shall suffer for it!'
'Ah,' answered he, 'let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat.'
The enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: 'If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.'
The man in his terror consented to everything.
When the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower in the middle of a forest. The tower had neither stairs nor door, but near the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me.'

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress, she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. It was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.
Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me.'

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her.
'If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,' said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried:
'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me.'

Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up.
At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her; but the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought: 'He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does'; and she said yes, and laid her hand in his.
She said: 'I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse.'
They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her: 'Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king's son - he is with me in a moment.'
'Ah! you wicked child,' cried the enchantress. 'What do I hear you say! I thought I had separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me!'
In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
On the same day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king's son came and cried:

'Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me.'

she let the hair down. The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks.

'Aha!' she cried mockingly, 'you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you; you will never see her again.'
The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes.
He wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

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CINDERELLA

CINDERELLA

Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.

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PENGERTIAN LETTER/ SURAT

PENGERTIAN LETTER/ SURAT

SURAT ADALAH PESAN YG AKAN DI SAMPAI KAN KPD SESEORANG YG AKAN DI TUJU .

CONTOH SURAT

DEAR MIRA,

I AM SORRY I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I CAN,T COME TO YOUR HOUSE TO WORK OUR PROJEK AS WE HAVE PLANNED BEPORE .UNEXPECTED THING HAPPENS. MY GRANDMA MUST BE HOSPITALIZED SOON.I’LL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR PLAN LATER .

CONTOH SOAL

1. FROM THE MESSAGE ABOVE WE KNOW THAT … J

A.DINDA AND MIRA HAVE TO WORK TOGEDER ON THEIR PROJECT

B.DINDA’S GRANDMA INVOLVES IN THEIR PROJECT

C.DINDA AND HER GRENDMA WILL MET MIRA AT THE HOSPITAL

D. DINDA EXPECTS MIRA TO STAY IN THE HOSPITAL WITH HER

2., WHAT IS DINDA ‘S PURPOSE TO WRITE SUCH KIND OF MESSAGE

A. TO TELL ABOUT HER SICK GRANMA

B . TO GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DELAY ON AN ACTIVITY

C. TO ASK MIRA TO WORK ON THEIR PROJECT

D . TO PERSUADE MIRA TO CHANGE THE PROJECK

DESCRIPTIPTIVE

PENGERTIAN DESCRIPTIVE ADALAH SEBUAH TEKS YANG MENGGAMBARKAN SESEORANG ATAU TEMPAT

CONTOH

PETER IS THE YOUNGER IN OUR FEMILY . HE IS FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AND FOUR YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME . HE HAS LONG, SENTRALEG HAIR, BRIGHT EYES, AND A FRIENDLY SMILE.SOMETIMES HE IS RATHER NAUGHATY AT HOME, BUT HE USUALLY DOES WHAT HE IS ASKED TO DO.

PETER IS INTERESTED IN SPORT VERY MUCH AND AT SCHOOL HE PLAYS FOOT BALL AND TENIS. HE IS THE BEST BADMINTON PLAYER IN OUR FAMILY .

CONTOH SOAL

1. WHAT IS THE TEXT MOSTELY ABOUT…..
1. PETER
2. PETER’S HOBBY
3. PETER’S FAMILI
4. PETER’S ELDER BROTHER
2. BASED ON THE TEXT WE KNOW THAT THE WRITER IS…YEARS OLD.
1. FOURTEEN
2. SIXTEEN
3. EIGHTEEN
4. NINETEEN

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