12th December

Thought of 

the week

This week the quote has been chosen by my students.

"Knowledge is when you learn something new every day.

Wisdom is when you let something go every day."

                                                         Ralph Waldo Emerson

I also wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Let me share with some words that are not mine but became so very well known and universal. 

They're from "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens who wrote them so many years ago and are still current nowadays! 

I love the way Scrooge has changed! 

"A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens in 1843, has become synonymous with the holiday season, and with good reason. 

This heartwarming story of repentance, redemption, and the transformative power of love and charity is especially poignant during the season of goodwill to all.

Here are a few memorable quotes from the tale, in the hope of inspiring you to become reacquainted with it this year.

Scrooge: “Bah, humbug!”

Narrator: “Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”

Scrooge: “If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

Scrooge’s nephew: “I am sorry for [Scrooge]. I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always.’’

Narrator: “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”

Scrooge to the Ghost of Jacob Marley: “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”

Marley’s ghost to Scrooge: ‘’No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.’’

Ghost of Christmas Past: “What! Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?”

Scrooge: “Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?”

Scrooge: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.’’

Scrooge: ‘’I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”

Narrator, of Scrooge: “And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.  May that be truly said of us, and all of us!’’

Tiny Tim: God bless Us, Every One! (…)"

in https://hudsonvalley.org/article/words-inspiration-quotes-christmas-carol/

 5th December

Thought of 

the week

“Things work out 

best for those 

who make the best of 

how things work out.” 

                 John Wooden

Curiosities

Do you know that ...

- on 13th November "World Kindness Day" is celebrated?

- on 20th November  "World Children’s Day" is celebrated?

- Thanksgiving is the most important holiday in the United States? 

 And this year took place on 24th November? 

And it is celebrated on fourth Thursday of November every year?

- on 25th November "International Day for the Elimination of 

  Violence against Women" is celebrated?

 28th November

Thought of 

the week

"Success isn't always 

about greatness. 

It's about consistency. 

Consistent hard work leads to success. 

Greatness will come."
                                       Dwayne Johnson

 21st November

Thought of 

the week

“Learning does not consist only 

of knowing  what we must or we can do, 

but also of knowing  what we could do and 

perhaps should not do.”

                                                        Umberto Eco