:)

Well, this up-and-down climbing Santa can be seen in the Árkád again :D But last time I couldn't notice him, because he is at another entrance of the building.

Christmas decorations

Hi everyone!


Huh, back again from a very fatiguing weekend! I had to edit and type two different texts. The first one was about Italian literature in the 20th century (about the hermetism and the poetry of Salvatore Quasimodo). The second one dealt with some Italian-Hungarian relations of the county of Veszprém. The first one was easier for me, because I could find a huge amount of sources. But as for the second one…I could type only 2 pages, which aren’t so much :( Anyway, I have one week to finalise it.

On my way to the dorm I saw some Christmas decorations in Pécs. They are very nice, I should say. I really like those little Christmas trees in Árkád and I also think that those are nicer than the last year’s decoration (with that up-and-down climbing Santa, if you remember :) ).

On the other hand these can be very embarrassing, making me anxious for buying presents for Christmas. And as I have already written in one of my posts, I don’t really like buying gifts. The reason is that I don’t know what would a person be happy about, or what would be useful for him/her. I know that it’s only November and we have almost 5 weeks left for X-mas but the intention of these decorations is to pay the people’s attention. I think the decorators should have been waiting for December with these adornments. Although some of them are beautiful, they can make the people’s feelings confused: they seem not to have time for enjoying the beauties of autumn and November, because a few of them starts spending money as soon as having seen the first decorations. I’m not so happy for this phenomenon, because I can see that the Christmas is over commercialised nowadays and the real message of this festivity is trying to disappear. :(

So, I think we have enough time to buy the Christmas presents, but in my opinion we should care about our family members every day, not only during festive seasons ;)
Have a nice week! :)

Curriculum Vitae

Fodor Zsuzsanna
6 Jakabhegyi Street
Pécs
7624
Hungary
E-mail: djzsuzska@citromail.hu


Objective

Studying English language and culture at the University of Liverpool with Erasmus Scholarship.

Profile

I was born in 12 May 1986 in Veszprém. I am a second-year student at the University of Pécs where I study Italian and English.

Education

• Dual Language School of Balatonalmádi, 2001-2006
• University of Pécs, 2006-

Certificates

• Advanced final examination certificate in English, Italian and Literature at the Dual Language School of Balatonalmádi in 2006.
• Intermediate final examination certificate in Mathematics, History and English/American Civilisation at the Dual Language School of Balatonalmádi in 2006.

Language skills

• English - proficient in all four skills, Advanced language examination certificate
• Italian - Intermediate language examination certificate at the Polytechnic University of Budapest (also known as BME)
• German - all four skills at the elementary level

Interests, hobbies

• Reading and writing in English and Italian
• Travelling abroad
• Taking photographs
• Music
• Films
• Theatre
• Ice skating
• Dancing

Ambition

• Teacher
• Translator
• Tourist guide
• Photographer

Everlasting moments...

I know that this title is a little bit paradoxical, but sometimes I feel something that: "This moment seems to last eternally and I wouldn't like it to finish." I know it's a bit strange, but this happened to me several times.

The first one was during that afternoon when we gave a serenade to our literature teacher at the end of the 4th year in the secondary school. That day was really beautiful: the weather was sunshiny and we spent that time in the garden. We were speaking about certain topics, like: school, our future after the final exam and so on. The time seemed to be stopped, because we were sharing good ideas and nothing "disturbing" happened. After all, we spent almost 5 hours there! But the atmosphere was so delectable that I wished the time having been stopped.

The second one happened a few days ago in the evening. I decided to drink a cup of tea (with apple and cinnamon taste, it's yummy! :) ) while listening to some music on the radio. There was two very relaxing songs after one another: the first was Chris Issak-I wanna fall in love with you and the second was R.E.M.-Everybody hurts. While I was having my tea I imagined that I was on a seaside, lying on the beach, having sunshine, etc. This 10-minutes period seemed to last forever. I could relax and I didn't want to come back into the present.

But I think we need some moments like these to get some relaxation in these heavy weekdays, mostly in the exam-period... :)

Thanks! :)

Thank you for those who wrote some comments to my posts! That made me very happy, because I could read some really good ones. :)
And I'm waiting for tomorrow, because it seems to be a perfect day for me (at least so far). :))

Please....

Hi!

Back again from a nice weekend. Surfing on the Internet, checking e-mails, iwiw and blog....and seeing that I'm among the students who hasn't received any comments from the others so far (the only exception is Joe) . :((

I tried to write about interesting topics, moreover I wrote some comments to the others' blogs, too. So, I would like to make a request towards everybody: please do make comments to my posts! I'm really interested in your opinions and points of view about my writings so far. :)
Thanks and see you soon. ;)

Solving a problem...

Hello!


After the last week's "interesting" Thursday, I would like to write about some events in the dorm which have happened today.

After Joe's lesson I turned back to the dorm. But it wasn't so easy. There are still some road-constructions next to the dormitory-building, so parts of the road and of the pavement are missing now. Due to this fact, the road from the school and the dorm was directed by some plastic ribbons and wooden bridges. Well, at 6 p.m. it was dark, so I could feel like walking in a labyrinth :)

As soon as I opened the door of my room I noticed that there was a problem with the tap: the water was flowing out of it and I couldn't do anything to stop it, because the tap became ruined somehow while I had been away. :( So, I went down to ask some help from the hall porter. He came up and had a look at the tap. Then he said that he was going to call a plumber and all I have to do is waiting for his answer. I said OK, of course. While I was waiting for him, I started to read a little from one of my compulsory readings then I was eating some peaces of chocolate. :)

After waiting for 2 hours (for no answers, of course), I went down to the hall porter again asking him if there were any good news for me. He shook his had and said he couldn't find anybody. Moreover he advised me to ask help from the boys in the dorm. Huh! I started imagining: do I have to knock in all rooms (there are at least a hundred of them) to ask: "Hello, do you have some utensils for a ruined tap?" But to tell the truth, I really did so :)) Fortunately, there were two boys in the first room, where I knocked in and they had a pair of pliers. They were very helpful and they could solve the problem easily: within 2 minutes! So, I had to be waiting for a 2-minutes solution for 2 hours!! :)

But finally I was lucky. And since then I don't want to touch anything that could be damaged and is in connection with water. :))

Films & music

Hi everyone!


After a short pause I would like to write about my favourite hobbies: watching films and listening to music. I know that most of you have similar interests but this time I would like to write about these two things through a different aspect.

There are some films which focus on music, for example: Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, The jailhouse-rock or Love me tender. I think these are great films, because they can make a good picture about a certain era by collecting the actual waves of music, dance and fashion. Sometimes they can evoke a kind of a nostalgia or retro-feeling, too. That's why I love these kinds of films. :)

But not only the '70s and '80s was a prosperous period for those types of films. Similar kinds of films are produced even nowadays, like: Walk the line (a film dedicated to the American country-singer Johnny Cash), Ray (dedicated to Ray Charles) and Piaf (a film dedicated to the French chanson-singer, Edith Piaf). These films are similar to those from the '80s, but they are also trying to depict the life of the main characters throughout their music. I think this is an admirable idea! :)) You can not only watch the life-line of the person, but you can also get to know his/her music.

So, I can recommend you to watch some of these great films. These could be an ideal way of relaxation in a cold winter-night. Have fun! :))

Photo

Hi everyone!

I put a picture of me. :) There it is:

Cheers! :))

Story about an interesting day of mine...

As I promised you last time, I'll write about an interesting day of mine. :)

It started as a completely usual autumnal day: the sun was shining (which made me glad, because I always have better mood if the sun is shining :) ) and the temperature was also very nice, neither too high, nor too low, just perfect. I was lying in my bed and I was organising my daily programs (as I do it usually). This morning I didn't have to hurry, because my lesson would be starting at noon, so I had enough time to relax. I was wondering about this kind of weather, when I had got an sms message. Finally I had got some money from the university! I'd been waiting for that for two months! I think this was a very good moment and it really started the day :)

So, I got up and decided to do all my financial affairs before the lesson. These affairs mean: paying the monthly fare of the dormitory and buying something for my brother's birthday (he's 16 years old) but not spending all the money at once, of course.

When I left the dorm, the rain was falling (this phenomenon is kind of a Murphy's one: if the sky is cloudy and I leave the dorm, it's always raining :( ). After paying the sum, I got a new sms from one of my classmates that the lesson held at noon was going to be cancelled. Hurray! Now I had a huge amount of time to think about my brother's birthday-present. :)

So I took a bus and went to have a look at some shops in the Árkád to find something good for my brother. To tell the truth, I don't really like buying gifts, because I don't really know what he would be happy about. But that day I was lucky, because I could find a cool DVD-movie for him in the first shop. The whole searching lasted only for an hour :)

Then I returned to the dorm. I didn't know what to do. My next lesson started at 4:30 and I had almost 3 hours left! This lesson would be about the results of our midterm tests and some English grammar, for which I had no mood, to tell the truth (wow! it's a little bit The Catcher in Rye-style :D ). I thought I would travel home, because that lesson is very boring and being at home on Thursday would be cool. :) But I changed my mind and decided to stay in Pécs and go to the lesson, because I was interested in my results for the test.

So, I had lunch (I was eating slowly, because I didn't have to hurry at all) then I was listening to some music, and after that I was reading the daily newspaper.

Then it was time to go to the lesson. Everybody was there waiting for the teacher and all of the students were there for getting to know the results. We entered the classroom and sat down. Finally the teacher came. He also sat down and started his speech this way:

" Hello everyone. I have some bad news for today. The first is that I haven't corrected your tests. And the second is that I think I have left them somewhere, because I don't remember where have I put them, so I can't find them now. "

Huh, this was a shock for me! The only reason why I was in that lesson was the result of my midterm test; that's why I hadn't travelled home!!! :( During the lesson everybody was nervous and upset because of the same reason. :((

At the dorm I decided to write about this day, because it was so extraordinary for me. :)Oh, and I've jut got a phone call that I should visit my dentist tomorrow evening..... :(Now, I can say that this information has ruined my whole day (I don't really like dentists!), which started so beautifully in the morning.......

I hope you have enjoyed this story.

Bye-bye!

Saying hello

Hi everyone!

Welcome to my blog! The reason why I've started writing it is that I think it's very useful nowadays: it can give some personal information about you and you can get to know other people more thoroughly. :)

At the beginning, I would like to write some information about me. My name is Zsuzsanna Fodor, I'm 21 years old and I come from Balatonalmádi, which is a small town near lake Balaton.

I study Italian and English at the University of Pécs. I'm a second-year student now. The reason why I chose these languages is that I like them :) Moreover, they are very useful in Europe, so it's worth learning them ;)

At this point I can claim that these things aren't interesting to everybody, but next time I will write about interesting stories, I promise. ;)

But I have to go now to finish packing my clothes for the next school-week. :(

Bye-bye!