Blogger. Not bad!

Hello again

So, I created this blog this morning at school. I have been playing around with it this afternoon and have come to the conclusion that Blogger‘s not bad at all.

The reason I originally decided against using Blogger or something similar was that I wanted a way to restrict access to certain articles to certain people. The same thing with photos. For photos it was more important actually, because I didn’t (and still don’t) want photos of me available for the world to see. But it’s not worth the trouble.

I’m trying to find a decent place to put my photos. I have just signed up for Photobucket but it doesn’t let you restrict access to photos. Does anyone know of a good one that would let me create groups of people and let particular groups access photos? Or that lets you create albums and only let certain users look at the album? Photobucket doesn’t do that yet, but says it will be eventually.

Nouvelle Star: My audition

So, a couple of weeks ago Nouvelle Star, the French version of Pop Idol, started on M6 with the auditions in Marseille, which I attended. Unfortunately I wasn’t good enough or bad enough to make it to TV but I am available online:


Casting Marseille - Candidat 7458 - nouvellestar
Casting Marseille – Candidat 7458 – nouvellestar

So vote for me and maybe I’ll get to the top of the home page. But probably not. And don’t be so mean as the person who wrote the first comment “fallait apprendre la chansson un peu mieux que ca :) hihi” (“You should learn the song a bit better than that“). Well, I say you should learn to spell “chanson” properly!

The song was Johnny Hallyday‘s 2006 hit “La loi du silence“. Well, it was supposed to be.

Where is Brian?

Gad Elmaleh, a French stand-up comic and movie star, did a show in Lyon that’s on DVD now, called L’autre, c’est moi. All the kids have seen it here. Well, most of them. In it, he recounts how at school one of the first sentences he learnt was “Where is Brian?” He and his classmates respond “Brian is in the kitchen.” Brian also has a sister. “Jenny is the sister of the Brian. Jenny is in the batttthhhhroom.”

I thought I would see if that old-fashioned way of teaching English still works in the 21st century. It turns out it does.

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I drew a house on the board with a kitchen and bathroom and a lounge and a bedroom. I realised that it’s actually a good way to teach prepositions.

Hello and Welcome

So, I am finally getting around to posting stories about my trip to the other side of the world and my time in France. I tried writing my own blog engine to go with my photos on my web site at http://www.arunstephens.com/ but really, why reinvent the wheel? So here I am on the apparently new Blogger.

Like I promised on the old blog (which had two posts – http://www.arunstephens.com/blog.aspx) I am going to start writing backdated posts, starting from when I left home. Not sure whether I can actually backdate things though. Hopefully I can put some photos on here too, but I’m not sure about that either.

That’s all from me for now. I am at school and my next class is in 7 minutes.