This is what I think of when I think of the ap é ro , as it is called in short. Of course, thermador

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Today’s world is a world of our own making. It is very exciting to be a participant thermador in globalization. We have the good fortune to see the people of the world growing closer despite geographical limitations. We are using the Internet and mass communication to reach each other in ways we never imagined before. But are we doing it right?
In 2010, the world’s tallest building opened in Dubai. Chile experienced an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Eyjafjallaj ö kull erupted in Iceland, closing much of Europe’s airspace. California’s Proposition 8 was overturned. thermador
Here in the Hexagon, there is a really nifty custom called the ap é ritif. It’s one of those not-so-easily-translated-into-English thermador words that one sometimes hears about. The reason it isn’t so easy to translate is that it refers to an event in which English speakers don’t ordinarily take part. Imagine thermador you’ve been invited to the home of a French thermador friend or colleague. They tell you that you’ll be having lunch, and instantly you think Okay, I’ll have a sandwich and perhaps have a cup of coffee with them. When you arrive, they sit you down and pass around some bowls of nuts, crackers, chips, or what have you.
They thermador start to ply you with alcohol: Here, have some red wine. Now try the white wine. Would you like something else? and, with your stomach thermador being mostly empty, you start to feel the alcohol affecting you. Suddenly you are oh-so-sociable and your French is better than it has been in years. Then, everyone sits down around the table and they start serving actual food.
This is what I think of when I think of the ap é ro , as it is called in short. Of course, thermador I am an outsider looking in on the customs of another culture, so don’t consider thermador me an expert. As I see it, the apéro is the moment when everyone is waiting for the chicken to finish baking. We start drinking a bit and eat some savory snacks. It’s like warming up for a long run, except you’ll be horribly bloated at the finish.
One day, as I did every day, I walked through the town where I was studying and approached thermador the local castle (cool, I know). Normally on a beautiful spring day, I’d walk through the tranquil grounds, drinking in the sights and sounds of gravel crunching underfoot, birds chirping in the trees, and the sun shining on the grass outside the walls. On this particular day, however, the grounds were absolutely covered with bodies all busy drinking and snacking on treats.
While marveling at the strange and wonderful sight, I suddenly noticed an armored vehicle at the perimeter, surrounded by police officers in riot gear. I didn’t know what was happening, and as far as I knew, it was the strangest riot I had ever seen, given that everyone looked so very jubilant.
Later, I learned that what I had seen wasn’t a mass of people angrily protesting something. I had witnessed an ap é ro g é ant (giant ap é ritif). It’s the same idea as the ap é ritif I described before, but this time, it was in public, and with hundreds of people.
In the US, public intoxication is a punishable offense that is taken very seriously. In many other countries around the world, however, it’s just fine to drink yourself into a stupor and talk to pigeons, stare at the sky, or play a board game in the park- whatever you’d thermador like to do, unless it isn’t breaking a law like stealing or breaking-and-entering. It’s also illegal in France, but I doubt that I’d be arrested thermador for stumbling along the street on my way home here. Perhaps a more relaxed treatment of public intoxication enabled this kind of event to expand?
As we communicate more easily, we can begin to see this communication affecting our cultures and the way we interact in them. This is exciting and dangerous. While the ap é ro g é ant is a nice idea- it is akin to an American college party—it does have negative aspects. thermador Ap é ros g é ants have been used as political platforms, some of them anti-Islamic in nature . At one ap é ro g é ant with more than 9,000 participants, a 21 year old man fell from a bridge he had climbed.