Almost done

Hi folks,



This will be my penultimate entry on this blog normally. Next week is the last week we have to do articles on 7Speaking, so next week we will say goodbye. It will be very emotional so you better have some Kleenex on hand ;-)



Ok back to business. This week I did 3 articles. Jacques Rogge, Jerry Lewis and oil prices were the subjects.



Let's start with my fellow-countryman Jacques Rogge, who is also the president of the International Olympic Committee. In a speech he claims that the Games of Beijing were magnificent and he was also looking forward to the Olympics in 2012, in London. I don't know if the Beijing Olympics were so magnificent, if you know that people lost their house, their store, their work... just because of the 'image' China wanted to have. I saw several documentaries where Chinese people told how they were thrown out of their homes because they lived too close to the Olympic stadium. 'Only the best for China'...yeah right



Article number 2 was about the famous comic Jerry Lewis. He's 82 years old but never thought about retiring. I'm young and I don't know till what age I'll have to work when I'll be old. 60? 65? 70? Who knows? I just hope it won't be 82.



My last article was about the oil prices. If you follow my blog regularly you know I'm interested in the world crisis, oil prices, renewable energy, etc... so it shouldn't surprise you I read this article. It's actually an old article, dated October 2007. Back then the oil price was soaring. Now the prices dropped again, but still I think they're too high. Demand is growing, true, but supply is being kept too low by the OPEC (Organization of Oil Exporting Countries). Greedy as they are, they just try to keep the price as high as possible, while people are having problems paying their energy bills.



CU next week for the last time



ST