MY PRESENTATION

Hello Everybody,

I’m chinesechekkers. Sorry for that name, but after trying different easier and nicer names for almost half an hour I decided to write this one above and even so I had to write it incorrectly (the correct writting is “checkers”) in order to be able to open my blog.
In the chinese calendar, I’m a tiger and I'm proud of it. Isn’t it stupid to be proud of such an imprevisible thing as to be born the year of the tiger ? As you know, the tiger’s year comes every 12 years, if I’m right, the next time will be in 2010… So you can, if you wish, think by inference of the possible candidates to be born a tiger year in our classroom!
It’s quite silly, in fact, to be proud of such an insignificant and trivial detail and specially when you know that the Chinese people haven’t the same symbolical representations of animals as we have? But anyway, it sounds more suitable to me to be born a tiger year than a rat, a snake or a pig year...
I thought about the chinese zodiac to start this presentation because of the text we read in class but also for two others more powerful reasons: first of all, because I have been tied to the chinese culture for many years and second, because I love cats. That reminds me of a kind of psychological test a buddhist friend of mine asked me some time ago. I had to answer three questions. Here comes the first one :

1- Which animal would you like to be ?

As you can imagine, I answered that I would be a tiger

The second question was:
2- If you couldn’t be that animal, which other animal would you like to be ?

I said I would be a domestic cat. Your are supposed to answer the questions without thinking too much and, at that moment, somehow surprised by this second question, the picture of my red tiger-striped pussycat passed through my mind. It’s not that bad ‘cause my cat looks very much like a wild tiger but in another scale and he ‘s running such a confortable life…without any doubt his life is far much better than the one of a wild tiger !

The third question is…wait a moment ! I’m sure you can find out the third question. Yes, that’s right ! Here is the third one :

3- If you couldn’t be that second animal which animal would you like to be ?

Then, with a “budistas del copón” kind of feeling, I anwered like someone who doesn’t want to do so : “ I would be a dog”.

Well, I suggest to my classmates to answer this same questionnary if they wish to and then to post it somewhere (on my blog ?). In few days, I will give you the keys to understand your answers.

See you everybody in class next day.