Showing posts with label SUK1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SUK1. Show all posts

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Gaelic football and Hurling

hey guys (: 
I've been studying the culture topics and while reading the handout about Gaelic football and Hurling I realised that I didn't really get the rules while reading them so I decided to watch a youtube video to get a better insight. You should know that I've never been a fan of watching sport. I like to it but I never enjoyed watching it. I don't know why but I just think it's boring. But these two videos are really hilarious and I definetly enjoyed watching them. I know that both, Gaelic football and Hurling, shows elements of different kinds of sports but seeing it is way more fun than just reading about is and I think it's fascinating how well the different elements are combined (:
For them who haven't looked up this topic yet and don't know what I'm talking about: Gaelic football shows skills of soccer and rugby and is played with a round leather football which is comparable to a hard volleyball. Hurling shows elements of Lacrosse, Baseball and Hockey and is played with an axe-shaped stick similar to a hockey stick.
But I really recommend you just watch these videos yourself and see what I'm talking about ;)


Thursday, March 7, 2013

Martin Luther King Day - 21st of january

One of the american CLI's we have to study is the one about Martin Luther King and his famous speech "I have a dream". Since you're all very well informed about this topic I don't have to fill you in but I just want to say that I think it's really great what Martin Luther King achieved and, most important, how he achieved it. I wanted to post about this already yesterday but since I had been busy all day long I didn't get a chance ;) but know I have time to share my opinion with you. Like I wrote before, I am really fascinated by MLK's achievements and I think we all should follow his lead and accept each other as we are, no matter where we're from and what we look like. In my opinion it's awful that there are still people who discriminate African Americans due to their skin colour and as long as it's that way there's still room for improvement. What I also really admired about him was that he fought for his dreams in a nonviolent way. More people should try this way ...