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Have you ever reused coffee grounds?
I sometimes add them to the earth of the pots.
Unfortunately they were less helpful against the ants, you say they were particularly naughty like all the insects who decide to move here?
Have you ever tried?
Or maybe you can read them? The first scene that comes to mind is in Joel Schumacher’s Dying Young, when Estelle played by Colleen Dewhurst sees a bad omen in Campbell Scott’s cup.
What do you say? Better to focus on other ways of using it.
For example, RENS from Helsinki, Finland had the best idea of using coffee grounds together with recycled plastic to make sneakers!
They named them coffee shoes, isn’t it great?
I quote verbatim: we transform post-industrial plastic and used coffee grounds into feature-rich products that are made to go the distance.
While waiting to go the distance, this is definitely a first step, don’t you agree?
Hi I'm Claudia and this is KCDC.
An interesting post, Claudia. “Aus dem Kaffeesatz lesen”, in German. Our ancestors did that a lot to predict the future. Wishing you a good morning, with greetings from Moscow.
Aus dem Kaffeesats lesen!
Oh Olivia, I can’t say how grateful and HAPPY I am for the opportunity you are giving me! Learning German has been one of my dreams since I was a child.
And I also love tradition from ancestors.
DANKE for your greetings from Moscow!
И тебе хорошего дня! Is this correct?
Yes, this is correct, Claudia.
There are all kinds of ways to predict the future: “aus dem Kaffeesatz lesen”, looking into crystal balls, working with a pendulum, and the ancient Romans predicted the future according to the flights of birds …
All the best to you, Claudia.
Да, это правильно, Клаудия.
Есть всевозможные способы предсказывать будущее: “aus dem Kaffeesatz lesen”, заглядывание в хрустальные шары, работа с маятником, а древние римляне предсказывали будущее по полетам птиц…
Всего наилучшего тебе, Клавдия.
Really thank you very much for writing in Russian too !!
My dream was to learn languages with different spelling alphabets so I am so happy!
And I am grateful to you for having also mentioned the flight of birds: in fact I had forgotten it, but I find these ancient traditions important.
THANKS Olivia!
Learning the Cyrillic alphabet and using it was not easy for me. It takes a while to master it.
I can only imagine the level of difficulty.
I can’t even read hello 🙁
LOL
It can be learned, Claudia. But it needs determination, a strong will and plenty of time.
I can hope to find determination and strong will, the thing that escapes me most is time, also because I go looking for commitments even when I may not have any …
Yes, Claudia, finding time is also important. Maybe I should add this aspect to the two other aspects needed to learn Russian: Strong will, determination, time management. I set apart one to two hours each day for my Russian studies. Otherwise progress is not possible.
Olivia two hours a day is a considerable amount of time for someone with many other commitments, but on the other hand, if there is the strong determination you mentioned, it is doable.
How long did it take you?
Do you think that at least to start there is the possibility of finding free online courses?
It is all a question of priorities, Claudia. For me, learning Russian is a priority, since I live half of the year in Russia, the other half in the South of France. I need to understand, speak and write Russian, if I want to survive in Moscow.
My maternal grandmother spoke and wrote Russian fluently, she was born in the Russian Empire, in Riga. Unfortunately, i did not learn it from her, so I have to do it now.
I am not sure whether you can find free online courses, most schools offer online lessons but they charge for them. I cannot really tell you much about distance learning, since I do not like it.
I am taking private lessons in a language school in Moscow. By “private” I mean, I have my own teacher in a personal lesson. I do not like studying in groups. I want to be the only one talking. LOL
In the south of France? Wonderful!
I really like the south of France, Provence, and especially the Camargue, which I am in love with!
When I read that you couldn’t learn from your grandmother, my heart sank, you don’t know HOW MUCH I understand you!
For me it is exactly the same: my grandfather always told me that he would teach me German as soon as he retired because he worked shifts and worked nights. But he died before he could. I was only five.
A big bear hug.
You’re right: distance learning is not the same as face-to-face teaching, but lately I’ve gotten used to it and caught the bright side: this way I have many more opportunities since I don’t live in a big town.
I certainly imagine that private lessons are far more effective.
I like face-to-face, I like the personal touch. And I always bring my Russian teacher Andrei a little bar of “Ritter Sport” chocolate in his preferred taste of “Marzipan”. He studied German at the university, speaks German fluently and is a fan of “Marzipan”.
Marzipan! So here’s a connection with Italy! I like a lot the way habits, food, languages, tradition, culture, art melt together!
Do you produce Marzipan in Italy, too? Excuse me for asking such a dumb question. I thought that Marzipan was invented in Germany. Maybe I am wrong.
Olivia I’ve always known that marzipan was typically Italian, Sicilian to be precise!
But your question gave me a doubt and I discovered that it is also considered a characteristic product in Lübeck.
How strange this thing! I never stop learning
PS
I will give you the address of my language school in Moscow. They offer online lessons of the Russian language. They can teach you in French or English. I do not know about Italian, though; I think there is no teacher who speaks Italian.
This is their website:
https://www.crefrussian.ru/language-school/
THANKS THANKS THANKS!!
I know both English and French although not as well as you can see … 🙂
I went to the site and I’ll see if I can really organize myself.
Never say never!
You are welcome, Claudia. It is a good school, well organized, with good teachers.