Hello everyone, I have just realised that the task we are supposed to do, you know, the one about recommendation, is about recommending an individual. And as you know I recommended Żywiołak - a band:D So here is my recommendation of an individual. And the recommended individual is... George Carlin! I believe that some of you know him. He was an American comedian, more precisely a stand-up comedian. He died in 2008 unfortunately:( His sense of humor is exactly the one I love - full of irony and sarcasm. I would like to show you ma favorite sketch of his "Religion is bullshit", which even though is a sketch, does express some of my views about religion. Maybe this is why I like it so much. Here it is:
There is also another one I like - "Stuff"
And here is the most popular one. It is quite old but still valid:) Sorry for the swearwords:/
Hello people, I would like to recommend a band Żywiołak. MY boyfriend showed this band to me. They play folk metal, which is quite an interesting kind of music. As you probably have already guessed its is a mixture of folk and metal:D This band comes from Warsaw and it is quite well known. They have just release their CD. I haven't heard it yet but I think it's worth buying. I put one of their most popular songs here on my blog for you to listen to. I hope that you'll like it, though I believe that this is the kind of music that you either love or hate. I am quite sure that they sound even better at concerts ( I bet it's a hell of a show). Well, enjoy:)
Version 1 (quite probable) I wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning. It's Thursday. Bartek, my husband, is laying next to me, and he's still asleep. I try to be quite so as not to wake him up. I get up and go to the bathroom. I take a quick shower. Then I eat my breakfast, drink coffee and prepare to leave for my work. I am a teacher at primary school, and today I have five lessons to conduct. I grab my purse and keys and leave the flat. I lock the door, and head towards the lift. I enter the lift, press the button P, which stands for "parter", and go down. When I'm on the grond floor and I leave the lift and go out. It's spring already, but the sun is not shining today. Even when it is in the sky it rarely shines in this neighbourhood of Poznań, full of high block of fltas. Generally, nature does not exist in this world made of concrete. Trying not to look around this ugly place I head towards my car. It's a New Beatle - I like it very much. I out the engine on and I leave join the other cars on the main road. As always, there is a traffic jam at this hour, but I have already got used to it. After 15 minutes of ride I am in the car park in front of the school where I teach. However, before I leave the car I sit therefor a minute in silence and I think about the rest of my day. Here it is: 5 lessons untill 1 pm, going back home, making a lunch, cleaning, waiting for Bartek, making him a dinner, preparing for tommowrow's day at work, having a bath, going to bed. Hey, wait a minute. Isn't that EXACTLY what I did yesterday? And day before yesterday, and week ago, and two weeks ago, and month ago? How old I am already? I am 28, and I'm spending every day in exactly the same way. What the hell? How did this happen? When did I give up? NO. This is not my life.
Version 2 (less probable) I wake up with the first rays of a rising sun. Where am I? If I only knew. All I know is that I am in the USA and this night I spent with my boyfriend Bartek in the tent. I am starving, so I'm looking for some food in my backpack. I find two apples, half loaf of bread and some cheese. I make sandwiches and I wake Bartek up. He is smiling at me. I love his smile. This is the smile of a man who thinks "I am happy and grateful that you made into what I am today". We eat our small but extremely delicious breakfast. Than we wash ourselves in a pond next to our tent, and we change our clothes. When we're ready we pack up the tent and our things. We get on our bikes and we go straight ahead... we don't know where...
I have just watched the news and I learned that Obama uses the Internet to talk with Americans. They send him some questions and Obama answers them. It is true that he doesn't answer all the questions but only the "right" ones, but still it is a kind of step ahead. I can't imagine our president doing something like this. I remember that from the very beginning I have been supporting Obama, and I still do. For me it was incredible that a balck man got so high in a country which had racial segregation 40 years ago. Well, it is definitely a huge change. But on the other hand, these events made me sad, because I knew that something like that could never happen in Poland. I can't understand why so many people are still prejudiced against different races, believes, styles of lives. I have this impression that Polish people stucked at a certain moment of development, especially mental development, and somehow we refuse to move on. But the situation In the USA is quite different, and Obama is the most obvious sign of it. I don't know why, but I believe this man and put a great deal of hope in him. To be honest, I trust in him more that in our president. I don't think that our president cares about us. But Obama... somehow he is different. He is younger, his ideas are fresh, he is full of enthusiasm and strength, and his views are acceptable for me. Well, time will show whether I am not too naive.
Now, teaching practice is a difficult topic for me. When I started KJO I didn't have any plans to be a teacher. I was open to that possibility, though not sure. There was a moment when I thought that being a teacher was not so bad. I even thought that I might do it in the future. But when I started teaching during my teaching practice I changed my mind. I came to realise that I am not equipped with the qualities of a good teacher. I am too introvert and shy. I don't have this inner energy that some have. I find the situation of teaching quite unnatural. This is the most important reason why I don't want to be a teacher. Of course, the question of money plays an important role as well. I want to earn enough so that I could buy myself a washing machine, car, TV, or other things people usually have. I don't want to think about surviving a month with the amount of money I have. I want to be able to save some money so as to go for a trip, buy something nice, or help my future children the way my parents help me now. So, I guess that teaching won't be my future job, unless I'll have no idea for life and I'll be too afraid to do something unusal, something I really want. I hope it will not happen...
One thing I remember very clearly from my Christmas when I was a child - my grandfather who had this terrible and frightening mask of Santa Clause. All of us (I mean children then) were afraid of this mask. I don't know why. It was so pale so that it looked like a dead man's face:D And to make the matter worse it had a small whole in the cheek. But still, the Christmas was always wonderful. We always spent it with the whole family at my grandparent's house, aet delicious food, and got fantastic toys. I remember the atmosphere, magic and full of happiness. It was really nice. Now my Christmas is great as well, though different. I hope that my future children will have this opportunity to have such a wonderful Christmas. I am going to put a photo from my childhood, but right now I'm not at home and won't be for a couple of weeks, and I don't have any photo-albums in Poznań. I'll put a photo when I'm at home:)
Hello people, I started studying one of my favourite subjects - history of english language. I must admit that I don't understand what I am studying. I have read the handouts and tried to focus. But I get the impression that the information on our handouts are not well organized. Or maybe my brain is not developed well enough to get the meaning of the information. Anyway, I am learning by heart. This is very funny you know, because I am a student of teacher training college, and I learn how to be a good teacher, I learn about all the methods, dydactics and stuff. And I think that in such a place the techniques of teaching that I encounter on history of english should not take place. Someone should do something about it. I don't think that I am motivated by the teacher or explained to all the information from that subject. The fact that I don't learn anything on this subject, that I receive handouts which doesn't make any sense to me, that I have to simply learn them by heart is surely not a good example of correct teaching or of any methodological approach. No way. I just hope that my memory is good enough to learn those abstract things from the universe to pass the test (let alone getting the signature at the end of the semester). I am 22 years old and I am already frustrated with life. I believe that to some extent it is because of such situations as the one described above. I refuse to develop any kind of motivation in studying history of english. I am not strong enough to do it. The process of studying this subject takes my vital powers away... and it is not because of the subject itself (maybe in different conditions it would have appeared to be an interesting subject). I think that students of KJO know what I mean. Guys, what do you think of it? Join me in pain!
Welcome everyone, I have just experiance incredibly painful moments with my computer. I had to write an outline for my diploma paper in a template and I must admit that it cost me a serious amount of stress. Even though I knew the theory, how I should do certain things, my computer had no problems in finding a way to make everything harder. At one moment, I just sat and cried for couple of minutes. But eventually, I managed to finish my outline. I wish I didn't have to write this diploma paper:( I am only stressed by it and by the perspective of further use of the template. If there is anyone who shares my feelings I do sympathise with that person. Have a nice Sunday.
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Hi guys, I wanted to share my recent discovery with you. It concerns an actor. His name is Jensen Ackles and I saw him on TV series - Supernatural. His incredibly handsome of course. But the reason I want to him to you is the song he performed during one of the episodes. Well, actually it is a kind of an addition to the episode. From my whole heart I would like to dedicate this clip to Akson (Aga). Jensen Ackles in Eye of the Tiger. Aga, be careful, competition is chasing you;)
Hello everyone, Today I won't reflect on my life but I'll write something about the music I like. I am a women who prefers older kind of music. I don't watch MTV or whatever of that kind because I get depressed by the kind of music people create nowadays. It is not art anymore but just business, a sort of industry. As a protest I have cut myself from this trend and stayed in 20th century. Of course, sometimes it happens that there appears an artist with good music today, so don't think that I am blind to that. I'm not. First, I would like to introduce you to a band you surely know. Pink Floyd. My father is the one that is responsible for my love to this band. I like Pink Floyd because they are able to see music everywhere (listen to their CDs Ummagumma or Atom heart mother). What is more, the songs they put on their CDs are linked with each other and tell a kind of story. It is hard to choose the best song. They have so many of them. I will put here the one which most of you probably know - Wish you were here ( I don't think that this is the official clip, I guess that there's no one like that but just listen to the song).
I hope I did it well and it will work. Now, briefly I would like you to listen to others band that I like. I won't put all of them here but some of them are: Queen (the best male voice ever), Led Zeppelin, U2, Guns N' Roses, Michael Jackson (don't laugh, I do like him) and many more. Here you have a song by Queen "I want to break free". I love Freddie in this clip;)
And now something more "modern". Some of the band, singers are KT Tunstall, Alanis Morissette, Hooverphonic, and probably something alse but I can't remember now. Here you have Hooverphonic as maybe some of you don't know this band. A very beautiful song Vinegar and Salt.
And it just popped into my mind. I wanted to put Eva Cassidy, one of the best female voices. Just listen to her interpretation of "Autumn Leaves".
And just for the nice ending, somethinf from movie music, which I also dearly love. Here you have Road to Chicago from the movie Road to Perdition (watch it if you haven't seen it yet!). Music was composed by a well-known composer Thomas Newman. Enjoy.
Hello everyone, I am spending my "days off" at my hometown in Toruń. It's lovely but the perspective of writing outline for my diploma paper and studying other stuff (history of english language rules!) makes me a little bit sad. Though I try not to worry about that and find a perfect balanse between the desperate need to rest and doing what I have to do. Being an ambitious person (haha) I have read some info on the net about IFA MA studies. I compared seminars on part-time, and daily studies. It seems that seminars on part-time studies are so much easier and more student-friendly, while seminars on daily studies are titled in a way which I just couldn't understand, not to mention their descriptions. I don't get it. Is it so difficult to write something in a way I could understand so as to make a decision about possible seminars in future, or because you're a professor you have to write on a level not comprehensibe to an average student. I wonder if there is any difference between students from part-time and daily studies, if they are thought of differently, etc. Damn it, I have no ideas for my further education. The only idea I have is that teaching English is not what I can do or want to do. I am hopeless at this and I just don't want to hurt others with my teaching. At least I'm aware of that fact.
I wanted to watch something on TV but I'm deeply disappointed. I doesn't matter that you have over 100 channels - there's rarely something interesting on them. And I guess that I won't to do anything constructive today so I say goodbye to you. Have a nice evening.
Hello everyone, It's time to write something constructive. As I was asked to write about my city I'll do that. I come from Toruń, which is a town situated almost in the middle of Poland. I will not be writing about its monuments and stuff because this is what you can find on the Internet. Also, because this town is famous some of you might have heard something about it. What I wanted to write is what this town is for me. It is the town where I spent my whole childhood and years before going to university, all happy days (with exceptions obviously). But being used to Toruń is not the only reason I love this town, because I truly love it. For me, it is the most beutiful city in the world, though it lacks certain facilities. It has this specific atmosphere, which I have never encountered in any other place. Funny thing is that before I went to University in Poznań I didn't appreciate this town. But now, I miss it terribly and every time I have a chance to go home (as I consider it my home) I feel so happy about it. The Old Town, the house I live in, everything being so close to your house, even if you live in the suburbs like me - it's all great. Now, I'm honestly fed up with Poznań. There are too many people here, too much traffic jams, and it's too big. I'm not accustomed to such big cities. I feel lost and unsignificant here. If it weren't for my friends and boyfriend, who also live here, I would probably go mad. Anyway, these are my amazing reflections about Toruń. If you ever have a chance to visit it don't hesitate!
I come from Toruń and I study in Poznań. I study English philology, which is quite an exhausting activity. In my free time, which I don't have right now, I like to read something from fantasy, especially Polish. I also enjoy playing guitar, watching good movies and obviously doing nothing.
