The animals and the frustrated photographer
Hello Amy, ѿý LE team and beloved readers,
Welcome to the blog today, friends!
I was wondering...Has anyone here realised that I like photographs? :-)
I have never done a course before, though. I’d love to take it up.
Someone might be thinking: Why does she take so many pictures? It’s not so hard to take the answer in. I like telling stories to my friends, to my patients...
The fact is that my stories are always...what could I say?, somewhat unusual. Therefore I like taking pictures because seeing is believing.
Every time I stop at the traffic light, I can’t avoid bearing an episode in mind which occured some years ago. My eyes lit upon a dog, a small dog that was walking on the street. At the corner, it stopped , waiting for the traffic light to turn red. As soon as the car stopped, in a relaxing way, the dog crossed calmly the street. I just thought "why on earth I don’t have a cam right now here"? Who was the lunatic who said the animals are irrationals?
I have another tale to tell about dogs. I don’t know weather or not you’ll go along with me but I and the rest of the female humanity are unable to pass a pitbull at street. So “listen” to me.
Once I was lazily watching a good film on a relaxing Sunday afternoon when suddenly someone knocked my door. It was Ana Paula. Not the reader, but my neighbour who lives upstairs
She wanted to say something meaningful but she was so desperate that the words came out more like something that could be spelled only by an ET speaker.
I tried to find out what she was saying and what I could take in was that firstly she was asking for help. Then, something about her dog, a pitbull that was at her parents’ house that had its tooth knocked out. No, not the dog. A child was knocked out. Oh no, no, no, her tooth was knocked out.
At last I got it! What really happened was that a child was walking along the street close to her parents’ house’s gate when she decided to have a look through the gate... so the pitbull, accidentally or intentionally (I don’t know), beat its head against her mouth and her front tooth was knocked out.
My neighbour wanted me to take care of the child providing the best treatment in an emergency to save her tooth.
We couldn’t waste much time so I was probably best to give my film a miss and rushed to the clinic because she was needing an immediate reimplantation and * the greater the time wasted, the more likely to have a bone ressorption and consequently loss of the teeth.
After that entirely unexpected treatment, given the events of the afternoon, I thought it was a happy end. Everybody was happy...the child, my neighbour and me. Oops. Have I said everybody? No, not everybody. I forgot about Ana Paula’s parents’ neighbours that were very angry with the dog. It was reasonable to a certain extent! And so...this is the beggining of another story.
So my brilliant neighbour decided to give her parents’ neighbours a time to cool off and brought her “innocent” dog to her flat in our building. I know it’s a nonsense. I’m not that kind of neighbour who complains of everything. What could I have said after she had given me a wonderful purse and had payed the bill?
Some days later, her dog had many “little pitbulls” (all at the flat).
And now my son appears in the scenery. My son is crazy for animals and loves dogs of all types and shapes.
One day he said: Mom, I’m going to my friend’s flat (his friend lives upstairs). I warned him not to go to Ana Paula’s flat in case his friend was not there. But it lasted few minutes for him to getting in trouble. His friend wasn’t at home, then he saw Ana Paula’s door opened and had a look at her living room to see the little dogs. Can you figure out this scene? The door opened, a pitbull and its little ones and nothing of Ana Paula who was in the kitchen at that moment?
As soon as the pitbull noticed my son’s presence looking at the little dogs, it rushed towards the potential victim to attack. Unexpectedely, my son, highly frightened, screamed. Not a common scream, though. A scream able enough to make everybody open their doors and rush around to find out what was happening. Believe me or not, thankfully the accute scream frightened even the pitbull and it ran way to the flat. I thank God everyday for that!
My neighbours can give testimony of the facts but if I had taken a picture,
** couldn’t it get any better?
Well...I haven’t just reached any obvious conclusion. Have you any idea of what happened here? Was there an angel by his side to protect him or it was a hormonal disturbance that affected the pitbull after giving birth to the little dogs?
All right friends, I think it’s better leave you now
Little note to Amy:
Sorry Amy, I haven’t got round to do my homework at lunch time. The fact is that I started reading the new comments and when I saw my watch it was too late. I'll not revise right now, though. Let's pray... :-) Here are my answers:
ѿýwork:
1) Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word ( verbs, prepositions or adverbs);
2) They are used in informal phrases. They are informal;
3) A truckloads of them. Transitive, intransitive, separable verbs or not...
Guess what, Amy, I had to go along with myself that I deserved a decent dictionary. Although it cost an arm and a leg, at last I bought one! I almost had a faint when I saw 4 pages just for the word “take”! :-O
Vocabulary:
-To take it up: To accept something that is being offered
-To get into: to be in certain condition
-To take it in: To understand or remember
-To set off: To start a trip
-To get back: To return
-To goe along with: To agree
-To put up: To play well
-To get round to: To find time to do
-To come up with: To find a solution
-To come back: To return
-To name after: To give a name
-A meanie: A boring person
-Ridiculous: Silly
-Good-natured: Friendly
-A commemoration: A celebration
Questions:
Amy,
* Amy, could please tell me how to build this kind of sentence using "the more...the more likely"? Is it correct in my text?
**You have used this phrase in one of your previous blogs: "Could it get any worse?" May I use it replacing the word worse for better and in a negative form?
Thanks Amy, I’m learning a lot with you. You are a devoted teacher!
Note to the beloved readers:
I’ll answer your comments on weekend ok? For a while, I just wanted to say to Naheed that my sister is the one who has a finger in every pie, rushing in all directions at the video. And to Antônio, that I’m thinking to take seriously his advice.
Oh! No pictures today...ok...just one cause I need a rest.
Byyyyye
Adri
Comments
Hi,Ariana I am not suprised and I do believe you and your neighbour's story.I do hope the little girl to recover from the ordeal. At the beginnign of 2007 there was an accident which a girl who was 3 or 4 years old was savagely attacked and bitten to dath by her uncle's pitbull in England.the accident hit the headline nearly every press.The girl was with her grandmother at that time but her grandmother couldn't protect her nor stop the dog as it was too vicious to resist from her granddaughter and it killed the little girl incidentlly.Pitbulls are known very ferocious and brutal. As far as I know that sort of accidents have happend several times and that dogs are banned to import in England.The other day I watched the document which was talking about pitbulls.They looked absolutely dangerous and crucial when they fought against another dogs.I think your son was more than lucky to escape from the dog.Please,don't get me wrong but I would love to say this as a mum.If I were you I would not dare to get your son near to the dog.Thanks again and have a wonderful day!
Hello Adri! First of all thank you so much for answering to my question. As for the pitbull,I think it was its hormonal disturbance that made her run towards Iago. It was obvious for the pibull to behave this way as she was guarding her newly borns,and when she saw your son she considered him to be a threat to the young pitbulls. The best part is that Iago was saved and a tap on his shoulder for shouting at the top of his voice:>. Humm...I would love to tell about the photographs you put up with your entries. This becomes more fascinating because it feels as we are invited in Brazil and you are entertaining us with the memories you saved in the digital eye. I liked the picture of the coconut palm in this post,it's also my favourite fruit.Naheed :)
Dear Adriana!Befor I started reading the blog today I went down with a mouse(to reasure myself you wrote a long one)and stopped at the photo.I glared amazed a while thinking what an artistic picture.I like to paint(when I did it last?)flowers even only stalks or dumps of grass taken from an unexpected view, not as they are usualy painted arranged in a vase. I postponed reading a text for later on. Then being overtaken of all your stories and absorbed full in them I laughed as the story with your son culminated. And the reasons why I work with an obsolent dictionary are the same as yours, being frightend of the amount which is needed to learn and learn..to be a bit advanced. By for now!
Adri, if you, a person living in the Latin America, ask if such things happen, so I, a reasonable person living in the Central–Eastern Europe, have to say that yes, such things happen and I’ve learnt it among others from Marquez’s books. And what’s more such things have already happened in my life. Some people say it was written somewhere in the heaven... Best,
Hi Adriana, what amazing stories you have to tell us. It's always great to read your posts. I liked very much the project you told us about. It must really have been very interesting. It reminded me of something every kid was in to, some years ago. It was a little gizmo that was supposed to be an eletronic animal which you had to feed, put to sleep, take care when it got sick and so on. It had a name, these things, but I can't remember what. Anyway, I think it's good to exercise such things as care and concern. I guess taking care of plants and animals are good things too. We can tell that you are a very good mother, very concerned to your child. You are an example to be followed, Bye for now Adriana, See you.
Hi Adri. I like dogs, but some dogs could be a real danger in inappropriate hands or in the wrong place. A few weeks ago a new law was aprobed in Chile, to set the rules to have potentially dangerous dogs. They have to be registered in a oficial list. They only can be in the street with a trail and a muzzle, and every master must take an poliza of insurance for the damage the animal could produce to other persons. Those rules are an obligation for owners of races like Dobermann, German Shepperd, Mastin, Akita, Rottweiller, and also Pitbull. You are glad that your boy end that episode only with the scare. Some other children are not so lucky. Best wishes
Hi Adri! Well, I´m afraid of pitbulls. Gee! Every time one of these dogs cross my way I become completly numb. 'Veja Sao Paulo' magazine has published an article about the increase of pitbulls which were abandoned by their owners in Sao Paulo streets. Therefore the number of people(especially children) who have been attacked by pitbulls have increased as well. So in this article, specialists give some information about what to do when a pitbull cross your way. Ahem! I don´t know about you Adri, but pitbulls always make me remember 'The hound of the Baskervilles', have you read this book? It´s really good. Anyway, I´m going to finish my comment here. Tomorrow I´ll be back to follow another instalment of your amazing blog ;-). Good night Adri, have nice dreams, Ana Paula.
Hi Adriana! Well, I am supposed to express better my comment from yesterday. When I laughed at that point at reading I meant that you narrated the story so well that my stomach have quaked from expectation what is going to happen. Then, I laughed because I screem by any occasion (embarrasingly like a small boy)when I bump into a person abruplty as for example at opening elevator´s door, being always somwhere distact with my attention. Looking forward to more stories!
Dear Adri, It is a nice story why you started to take camera with you. But I am going tell some stories why I stopped to take camera with me. When I was about 15, I am fond of taking photographs of various occasions and camera was a luxurious thing and cost more expensive in Nepal. Very selected few people use to have camera with them and used to give camera to selected person to take photo in occasion times. In one occasion I got an opportunity to handle camera and I was a really hero in that period. I took photos of unnecessary person rather than main occasion. When all photos were developed, camera owner told me I did not take suitable photographs and it contained a lot of technical faults likes, sharpness of photos, its lights etc. Then I realized a lot from that and try to improve next time when I was taking photos, it was also a crap. In next occasion I got an opportunity to handle camcorder, my friend I took a good quality video of that occasion but when returned camcorder to owner it was partially broken and he got angry with us. From that period, I do not handle camera and camcorder unless I forced to handle by my wife. In the mean time when my brother-in-law presented a camcorder to my wife, I am forced to learned video editing and arrange suitable program for that camera. In the initial period I was successful to learn editing and I taught my wife to do some editing. Another accident took place 4 days ago. She shot some beautiful movie of “Teej” festival and their group dance and ask me some help to edit them because she was unable to transfer it to computer. I tried several times but I was unable to do it because camera got technical problem. At last I formatted camera and make it able for next shooting. When I have to format camera before transferring movies to computer and unable to save movie clips, she got upset with me. I don’t know how much time it will take to make her realized about this technical fault.
please which is correct? set someone`s mind into OR set someones`s mind to. I hope you can help me thank you very much.
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