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Hello to all my friends at the cafe, I just stopped in to wish all the ladies a very happy International Women ´s Day!
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." ~Faith Whittlesey
"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President ´s spouse. I wish him well!" ~ Barbara Bush
"Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument." ~Author Unknown
Phenomenal Woman
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I´m not cute or built to suit a fashion model´s size But when I start to tell them, They think I´m telling lies. I say, It´s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I´m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That´s me.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It´s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I´m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That´s me.
Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can´t touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can´t see. I say, It´s in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I´m a woman
Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That´s me.
Now you understand Just why my head´s not bowed. I don´t shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It´s in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, ´Cause I´m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That´s me.
It ´s Anita here, still in one piece for about 4-5 weeks now, but avoiding the pc a lot more. I can ´t stay long, but I do miss you. I just came to drop you all a message from Nebal, since her pc doesn ´t want to join the era of new updates, so she has problems with it. Btw, wish her luck with her thesis today!
So, from Nebal to you...
How is everybody at the cafe. Missed them a lot!!! Would you please send them my wishes, and tell them that I miss them a lot!!!! Also, tell them that today Mon.March 8th is Teacher ´s Day at Lebanon, and I would like to share it with them. Unfortunately, I can ´t access esl as I still have problems with updates. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoyed and irritated. P.S. Special wishes to Epit and Julie
You can do almost anything you put your mind to …
You can swim the deepest ocean and climb the highest peak …
Be a doctor or fly a plane
You can face adversity and still walk tall.
You are strong, beautiful,
compassionate and much more than words could ever say!
Today
is yours, and so is ever other day… Happy Women’s Day!
I woke up today with a sad news of another earthquake in Turkey....I ´m sorry for all turkish people and I hope our Turkish friends from here are fine....GIVE US SOME NEWS!!!!
A Special day for all the ladies from the café...it ´s our day!!!!
International day of WOMEN!!!!!
here ´s a little thing for all of us....
A big kiss for all my girl friends!!!!!(it ´s common to send kiss for girls in Brazil, please don ´t be offended....lol)
This poem is for the ones who understand Spanish, sorry, I could not find the version in English... It is a love poem that makes me ...
Amor mío, mi amor, amor hallado de pronto en la ostra de la muerte. Quiero comer contigo, estar, amar contigo, quiero tocarte, verte. Me lo digo, lo dicen en mi cuerpo los hilos de mi sangre acostumbrada, lo dice este dolor y mis zapatos y mi boca y mi almohada.
Te quiero, amor, amor absurdamente, tontamente, perdido, iluminado, soñando rosas e inventando estrellas y diciéndote adiós yendo a tu lado.
Te quiero desde el poste de la esquina, desde la alfombra de ese cuarto a solas, en las sábanas tibias de tu cuerpo donde se duerme un agua de amapolas.
Cabellera del aire desvelado, río de noche, platanar oscuro, colmena ciega, amor desenterrado,
voy a seguir tus pasos hacia arriba, de tus pies a tu muslo y tu costado.
Julieta : What a beautiful love poem!! So strong, so passionate!
I do want to keep on dreaming roses and inventing stars ...
Thank you little girl!!
ANd this is the poem; Invictus by william Henley... This is the poem you can hear in the film and thanks to it, Nelson Mandela managed to survive 30 years in prison . For you my friends .. And what is your inspiration?
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow´d.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Hello sobriquet and everybody! Wonderful poems!!All of them!!
Julieta --That ´s how I feel after reading your poem : Mariethe--I haven ´t seen Invictus yet.I ´m going to try next weekend.I watched "The Hurt Locker" and "Avatar" yesterday night and I liked them,but I liked "The secret in their eyes" the best, don ´t miss it!
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
MARIETHEEEEEEEEE... u understood the poem very well! :)
Glad you and AnaIsabel liked the poem...
There are more poems like this one... Jaime Sabines is a Mexican poet who makes women want to feel loved...
Read these lines of his most famous poem "LOS AMOROSOS"... doesn ´t it make your heart beat???
Los amorosos callan. El amor es el silencio más fino, el más tembloroso, el más insoportable. Los amorosos buscan, los amorosos son los que abandonan, son los que cambian, los que olvidan.
Mariethe: I have not watched that movie either, there are no cinemas in this town but I think all of the movies of that actor are good, so I will try to watch it as well as the one that AnaIsabel has suggested...
btw the part of the poem you posted that I liked the most is this:
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul
Definetively that is YOU!!... hehe well, at laeast I see you like this, you are no another sheep, you do not follow, you are leader :) you are the captain of your soul...
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!
This is what I can watch on TV here in Mexico everyday...
This is one of a series of 32 mini-videos that are transmitted in Mexico due to the next anniverssary of Mexico as an independent country (we`ll be 200 years)
Each video shows one state of Mexico, there are 32 states in total.
This videos is about SINALOA (where Charmed One lives)
I can ´t believe TELEVISA (a Mexican tv channel ) is creating such a good stuff to celebrate Mexican independence... everytime I see one of these videos on TV I want SILENCEEEE...
They are simply beautifulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
oh Julieta! What a great idea this is to celebrate your country! i loved the video! It is so beautiful! Send the videos everyday if you can!Thank you so much!
Thanks for what you say about me...... My dear father used to say I was untamable! And I think he was right ! But accepting the consequences of it can be difficult at times !
Sorry this is very late.... It is hard to find time to check out this site often. I am busy with school these days.....
Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes. I had a fantastic birthday week so none of you were late in congratulating me. It was my march break at school so I celebrated many days with different people.
I got my hair cut. I got lots of starbucks money. I went to the USA and my American friend threw me a little dinner party with her sisters and Vicki. I also celebrated on the weekend with lots of my friends. It was so much fun to get older this year. It certainly made up for the last two birthdays.
The last 2 years I was either moving to Korea or coming back from Korea around my birthday....so most of my friends weren ´t around or were too busy for me. This year everyone really made me feel special.
I feel like 29 is going to be a great year! Gosh I am so close to that dreaded 30.
PS - Julieta! I cut my hair short....REALLy really SHORT!
Now, i am just waiting for the next one ! I love deserts with the ripples of the wind on the sand! Thank yeeeeeeee, Julieeeeeeeeee! I only have photos of frozen things at the moment! I am sincerely fed up with this unterminable; never-ending winter!
Hi there, I ´m going to Catalonia for easter holidays (2weeks). We wanted to cycle around Sevilla, cordoba and Valencia. We are 15 (4 families!). But we have difficulties to find some campsite with nice bungalows or houses to rent near these cities ( originally we thought about spending three nights near each of them). We ´ve been on Homelidays but failed! Have you got any address or organisations or website or any special ideas for us? BTW If you have any suggestions about things to do you ´re more than welcome (kind of good ideas you never find in a traditionnal guide!). thanks a lot for your help. hugs.
Isabelle99, wish you a pleasant trip. Can ´t help with suggestions, but you might want to pm some of our Spanish members - perhaps that way you ´d get more answers, as many of them are not here right now, and I ´m sure people would help if you asked them personally.
Hi everybody!
It ´s snowing again in Croatia today, a blizzard actually, so I ´m snowed in my house. As much as I absolutely love Mariethe ´s pics which have taken on a fantastic artistic turn this winter, I ´m really fed up with snow. Women ´s Day is over and it ´s really time for some spring, real spring, in this part of the world. This is what it looks like(actually looked like this morning, and it has been snowing heavily the whole day)...
Sara, thank you so much for the wishes!!! Where have you been???I haven ´t seen you around lately.
Anita, I ´m wishing the opposite....I looove the cold weather, when I used to live in Salt Lake City, Utah, in winter we had a lot of snow and I used to like very much, of course is not nice to drive, it ´s very dangerous,but I love it. Here in Brazil is Hot and in my city will never snow....
Julieta, are you feeling better after drinking cachaça???
Anaisabel, hiii, how are you?
Me fig, your picture is nice, there ´s nothing to scare (llok at your smile!!!)
Where ´s Euphe????Fiona????Glorinhaaaa???????
Mariethé, I love the picture...as I said, I LOOOVE SNOOOW, I still have that picture that you wrote my name on the snow!!!!!
Isabelle, I ´m sorry but I can ´t help....I wish to visit Spain, tooo!!!!!!
Well, it ´s time to go... I have to make myself ready to go to workd...
Hi Mirelli, Our posts got crossed! I`m OK, thanks. You would have enjoyed yourself in Barcelona yesterday. It snowed heavily!! Time to work!! Have a nice day!!
Just before going to bed ( very early but this cold just numbs me)
Thanks for those beautiful and surprising photos dear Anaisabel and Anita . Mirelli I need some of your heat ... And you can have all the cold here!! Mifig, I really prefer you with short hair if you don ´t mind me saying!! It really suits you!
Sending all of you girls all my love and affection! I ´m off to beeeeeeeeeeeed!!
A big kiss for all my girl friends!!!!!(it ´s common to send kiss for girls in Brazil, please don ´t be offended....lol)
it!!!!!!!
(I ´m glad I saved it... ) 
(llok at your smile!!!)
