Trick or Treat

As in each year at this date, an american tradition invades our lives.
Children dresses up like monsters, wichtes, deaths .... are in all streets singing the same : Trick or Treat.

Schools are required to ensure the celebration of Halloween.
All schools prepare little parties for children. They enjoy a lot in these parties. But after the school, the party carries in the streets and of course, like in The States in their neighbourghoods. In the place where I live, there is a neighbbourhood, where there ares some houses decorated with lights, and pumpkins. All children go there to achieve sweets, and of course they want to scare to the owners of the houses with: TRICK OR TREAT.
Apart from this anecdote, what it is obvious is that The States are the best sellers or exporters of their traditions to the rest of the world. Everybody looks to America when Halloween is coming. They want to copy the American tendency and spread it in their country, city or neighbourhood.
Pumkins are in all villages. Every year, when I go to visit a cementery I see pumkins in the path to the cementery. But theses punkins are for the tradition of the village where I go to visit my grandparents in the cementery.

Autum!

One of the things that I love of Autum is the colour of our forests. Orange, Green. The leaves on the come tumbling down, making a paht of green, yellow and orange colours.

Walking across this kind ok paths, is one of the best experiences of the Autum. Feelling the peace, feeling the silence ... It is magic. Your footstep is the only sound that you can heart. The silence, the river, the water  ..... The peace around you , it's one the best things of this moment.
The fog on the forest, mixed with the colours is frankly, wonderful.
In this period of the year, one of the most popular activities that people do is : Collecting mushrooms.
People usually go to the forest with the aim of enjoying a day in the forest, walking and collecting mushrooms. People go in groups of friends, families .....
While they are enjoying of the landscape, the paths.... they look for behing their foots to find : a mushroom.
Baskets, little knives are the instruments used to find and collect the mushrooms.

After the walk, everybody enjoys showing their collect and cooking it to taste the flavour of the forest's products.
But, one thing that everybody should know before collecting mushrooms and cooking them is that not every mushrooms are good to taste them. Sometimes, nice mushrooms, hide serious dangers for our health. There are healthy and dangerous mushrooms. If we taste a danger mushroom we can die.
Each time there are more people interested in this kind of activity and the mushroom's culture is growing up. In the area where I live, there are workdays, where people are taught in the culture of mushrooms. Ther can learn who to differentiate betwen a good and bad mushroom,  etc... after the working days, they usually go to the forest to collect all kind of mushroms. After that, all mushrooms are clasificated with their name, and the most important thing: They show which ones are bad or dangerous for our health. These kind of activities repeated in a lot of villages is very important to enjoy and taste of one of the most important things of Autum.

Let's Celebrate an important day

Yesterday, we lived an important day.
523 years ago, America was discovered by Cristobal Colon.
In my opinion, we must celebrate this date because the current world wouldn't be understand it without America and Europe.
The American's development wouldn't be whait it is with the help of Eurpe. At the same time, the devolopment of Europe wouldn't be understand without America. Both continents are importants to understand our lifes.
I would say that Europe, the old continent, means the tradition, the rules, .. whereas America represents modernity, action, new ways of thinking.
There are theories against the discovery but I think that the history of that fact, is the most important thing for everybody!
The pity is that all traditions or ancient groups of people have become extint and with them a huge part of the history of America ( North and South). With them, now we could understand better the history  of that continent