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12/06/2026

Reading is a good learning practice:

JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART IV

It was night when I reached Thornfield Hall. A little old lady was in her small sitting room.
“I’m Mrs. Fairfax,” she said.
“Oh!” I said. “I thought – “
“No,” she said. “I’m sorry it wasn’t clear. Thornfield Hall belongs to Mr. Rochester. He pays me to look after it. Your pupil, Adèle, isn’t my daughter. And she isn’t Mr. Rochester’s daughter. He had a great friend in France, and Adèle was the friend’s daughter. Her father and mother died, and Mr. Rochester brought her to England. She’s in bed now. You’ll meet her in the morning.”
We had a hot drink and some food together. We talked about Thornfield Hall, and I told Mrs. Fairfax about Lowood School. I liked her very much. Then Mrs. Fairfax took me to my bedroom. It was a beautiful room, and I slept well.
In the morning after breakfast, I went out into the garden. Mrs. Fairfax met me there. Adèle and her French nurse were with the old lady.
Adèle was a pretty little girl, nearly ten years old. I talked to her in French, and that pleased her. We were soon friends. Thornfield Hall was a big house in fine gardens. Mrs. Fairfax showed me all the rooms inside the house. Some of them were very big and fine.
We went up to the roof. From there I could see long way, over hills and trees and fields.
“It all belongs to Mr. Rochester,” the old lady said.
We started down the stairs. In one of the rooms under the roof, somebody laughed. It was a woman’s laugh, but it was loud and foolish. “A mad laugh,” I thought. I looked at Mrs. Faifax in surprise.
“One of the servants,” she said. She called out, “Grace!” A woman opened a door, and Mrs. Faifax said, “Too much noise, Grace.”Grace went back into the room. After that, there were no more sounds from the room.
Adèle liked me, and she liked her lessons. Mrs. Fairfax was kind to both of us. We were quiet and happy.
“When does Mr. Rochester come here?” I asked Mrs. Fairfax.
“Not often,” she answered. “And he’s never in one place for a long time.”
February was very cold. One day, Adèle was not very well. “We won’t have any lessons today,” I said. But I went out. I wanted a walk.
A man on a black horse came towards me. A big dog was with him. I wanted to say, “Be careful! There’s ice on the road.” But he went past me very quickly.
Suddenly I heard the sound of a fall. I ran back. The man was on the ground. I saw that his feet or his leg hurt him.

JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART IV – WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?

1-What kind of woman do you think Mrs. Fairfax was?
2-What do you think about Mr. Rochester so far?
3-Do you believe Jane will be able to help the man on the black horse?
4-Do you think Jane and the man could develop some sort of relationship?
5-Who do you think the man is?

08/06/2026

Reading is a good learning practice:

JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART III

Miss Temple spoke to me after a time. “You’re crying, Jane,” she said.
“Yes, Miss Temple. I’m so unhappy. I wanted to have friends here, but they’ll all hate me now.”
“No. they won’t hate you,” Miss Temple said. I looked at the girls. Their faces were sad, but there was no hate in them.
“Come to my room, Jane, and tell me about yourself.”
I told her about my unhappy years in Mrs. Reed’s house. I didn’t add anything, and I didn’t change anything.
“I know you’re telling the truth, Jane. Somebody didn’t tell the truth to Mr. Brocklehurst, and I’m going to say that to the girls.”
School became a happier place for me after that. But the girls at Lowood were often ill. One very cold February, a lot of them were very ill. I tried to help them, but some of them died.
People began to ask questions. And at last Mr. Brocklehurst’s rule came to an end.
Lowood School became a better place. I stayed there for eight years – six as a pupil, and two as a teacher. Miss Temple helped me, and I learnt a lot – all the school subjects, and French, drawing and the piano. I liked my work as a teacher, and the girls in my classes liked me.
Miss Temple and I became very good friends. But one day she said, “Jane, my dear, I’m going away. I’m going to marry Mr. Nasmyth.”
“Oh, I’m so glad – so happy for you,” I said.
“And you?” she said. “Will you stay here?”
I thought about her question. “No,” I answered. “I think I’ll find work in another place.”
I put a notice in the newspaper. That brought a letter from Thornfield Hall, near Millcote. The writer was a Mrs. Fairfax. She needed a teacher for a little girl.
I told Miss Temple about it.
“Now I can be glad for you,” she said. “I hope you will be very happy.”

JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART III – WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?

1-Do you think Miss Temple and Jane will continue their friendship after they leave Lowood?
2-How do you think Jane’s life will be in Thornfield?

22/05/2026

Let's read: JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART II

Lowood School was about eighty kilometers away. It was a slow journey in a coach with two horses. It was dark when I reached Lowood.
The head of the school was Miss Temple. I liked her. She was kind and good, but the school was not a happy place.
A teacher took me to the schoolroom. There were about eighty girls there. They all looked at me, but nobody smiled.
I soon learnt the reason for the unhappy faces. The reason was Mr. Brocklehurst. He came to the school the day after I arrived. All the girls – and the teachers – were afraid of him. He walked into the schoolroom with Miss Temple, and he looked at us with his unkind eyes.
“Some girls are not here. Miss Temple, “ he said, “Why not?”
Ten of the girls are ill, Mr. Brocklehurst. This is a very cold January. The school dresses are too thin, the schoolroom is cold, and the girls need more hot food.”
Mr. Brocklehurst looked angry. “Lowood is a school for orphans, Miss Temple,” he said.
“They have no mothers or fathers. Other good people pay for them. We must keep costs down.”
He looked at us again. Then he said: “Jane Eyre, come here!”
I went to the front of the schoolroom. I was very frightened.
Mr. Brocklehurst looked at me. There wasn’t a sound in the room.
“Stand on that stool, Jane Eyre,” he ordered. “Now girls,” he said. “Look at the new girl. You must all be very careful. She’s a bad girl. She likes to quarrel, and she does not tell the truth.
“Be careful!” He turned to miss Temple. “Jane Eyre must stand there for an hour. All the girls must see her.” Then he went out of the room.

JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART II – WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?

1-Why do you think everybody in Lowood is afraid of Mr. Brocklehurst?
2-What do you make of the fact that although there were about eighty girls in the classroom Mr. Brocklehurst could notice that some of the girls were not present?
3-What do you make of Mr. Brocklehurst’s answer to Miss Temple’s complaints that “the school dresses are too thin, the schoolroom is cold, and the girls need more hot food.”?
4-How do you think will be the behavior of the other girls towards Jane Eyre?

16/05/2026

🌀 A monster is forming in the Pacific Ocean.

🌊 The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has moved its probability of a Super El Niño forming by November 2026 to 100 percent. In March, that number was 22 percent. By late April, it was 80. Now it is certain.

A massive Kelvin wave, a pulse of anomalously warm water that has been building in the western Pacific, is now pushing eastward toward the surface. Subsurface temperatures in the top 300 metres of the tropical Pacific are already tracking warmer than the equivalent development stage of both the 1997-98 and 2015-16 super events. Central Pacific temperatures are projected to exceed 3°C above average by November, a level of oceanic heat not recorded since 1877.

What makes this worse is the baseline. Every previous Super El Niño formed on a cooler planet. This one is starting from a world already 1.2°C above pre-industrial temperatures. Any additional Pacific heat stacks on top. NOAA now gives an 82% chance of El Niño emerging by July, strengthening through autumn, and persisting through winter 2026-27.

The consequences span droughts, collapsed monsoons, amplified wildfire seasons and a likely breach of the 1.5°C warming guardrail.

16/05/2026

Read it: JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART I

My name is Jane Eyre. My father and mother died when I was a child. My mother’s brother took me into his home. He was very kind to me, but he died too. After that, I was very unhappy. His wife was unkind to me. Her son hated me, and he often hit me. One day, he hurt me very badly and I cried out. His mother heard me.
She hurried into the room. “You’re a very bad girl”, Mrs. Reed said to me. “You must not quarrel with John. We don’t want you here now. You must go to a school. I’m going to talk to Mr. Brocklehurst about that.”
She put me in the red room, and turned the key on the outside of the door. It was cold in the room, and soon it was dark. I was frightened. Mr. Reed, my uncle, died in that room.
A light moved across the room. Perhaps it was from a lamp outside the window; but I wasn’t sure. I cried out in fear. Nobody came. This fear made me very ill.
Mrs. Reed sent for me one day. There was a man in the sitting room with her.
“This is Mr. Brocklehurst,” Mrs. Reed said. “He knows that you’re a bad girl. But he says you can go to his school.”
Mr. Brocklehurst was a man of the church, but he had unkind eyes. He looked at me with dislike.
I said, “I’m not a bad girl. Mrs. Reed. You know that.”
“You see, Mr. Brocklehurst? She’s really bad. She quarrels with people, and she doesn’t tell the truth.”
“I’ll tell the head of the school about her,” the clergyman said.

JANE EYRE – CHARLOTTE BRONTË – PART I – WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?

1-What do you make of the kind of treatment Jane’s aunt and her son gave her?
2-What kind of man do you think Mr. Brocklehurst is?
3-What do you think will happen to Jane at the school they are sending her to?

05/04/2026

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17/01/2026

17/01/2026

Everything in the Universe indicates purpose. No doubt there's an intelligence behind it...

At first glance, Kepler’s Third Law looks like a dry mathematical relationship. But it’s really a poetic statement about how gravity controls the clockwork of the Solar System. Kepler discovered it by carefully studying planetary motions, long before Newton explained why it works.

The law says that if you square a planet’s orbital period and compare it to the cube of its average distance from the Sun, the ratio comes out the same for every planet. This means the Solar System runs on a single gravitational rule, not a collection of accidents. Mercury, close to the Sun, races around in just 88 days. Neptune, far away, takes 165 years — not because it’s lazy, but because gravity grows weaker with distance.

Newton later showed that this law is a natural consequence of gravity pulling inward while motion tries to fling planets outward. A planet farther away moves more slowly because it feels less gravitational pull. To stay in orbit, it must take a wider, slower path — stretching both its distance and its time.

Kepler’s Third Law is incredibly powerful. It lets astronomers measure the masses of stars by watching how planets orbit them. It explains why moons orbit planets and why binary stars dance around each other. In one elegant relationship, it reveals that motion in the heavens follows the same rules everywhere — making the Universe predictable, measurable, and beautifully ordered.

17/01/2026

Good night everyone! Have a great night sleep, sweet dreams and a very happy weekend!🩷🙏

18/10/2025

☄️ Don't sleep on this night! 👇🏻

On the night of October 21-22, the Orionid meteor shower will reach its peak activity. The Orionids are fragments of Halley’s Comet, which Earth passes through every October. As these tiny comet bits slam into our atmosphere at around 41 miles per second, they produce swift, bright meteors that can leave glowing trails—some lasting several seconds.

Often dubbed “the best meteor shower of Fall,” the Orionids typically produce 15–25 meteors per hour under dark skies. This year, the peak coincides with a new moon, which means the moonlight won't interfere, and you can spot even the faint meteors under dark skies.

The best viewing is after midnight, when Orion rises higher in the sky, making it easier to spot the brighter fireballs.

🌌 Viewing Tips:
🔸Head to a dark, rural location far from city lights.
🔸Lie back and scan as much of the sky as possible—no telescope or binoculars needed.
🔸Arrive 30 minutes early to allow your eyes to adapt to the darkness.
🔸Be patient—you could see a meteor every few minutes during the peak!