Hurray!!!

I've passed the Proficiency Exam!!! It's incredible! The complete result is a 4 and I'm extremely happy about it. :D

Finish

Oh, yes! We've made it: we survived this long (?) spring semester. (Un)fortunately we're heading for the last school week and I still can't believe it. It makes me sad because I have to realise that the exam period is coming. :(
Anyway, I rely on nostalgia to make a summary about these three months.

February: I had a lot of energy because I was at the beginning of a new term. I could read some books that were not compulsory and I had to spend less time to do my make-ups in the mornings. ;) Besides all these I had to make a process in connection with my courses and this was successful. I could take up almost every lesson that I had/wanted to.

March: I wrote about my accident, which made me pain and the ability to walk carefully. However, these weren't the only advantages. I got in a close relationship with a boy from the dorm. Actually we were (and still are) living by two doors next to each other, but I could have really good talks with him. I was falling in love with him gradually. This period was the beginning of my euphoria.

April: I started losing my energy and realising that I had overestimated myself and taken up more lessons that I would have had to. Thanks to the great events (parties) I could get rid of the tension and do my usual things patiently.

May: End of the happiest period of my life: we splat up. The reason? He is very busy and wouldn't have enough time for a more serious relationship. We sat down and made a compromise: we will remain friends. JUST friends but the emotional background will be a little bit different form now on.

Thanks to these events this period will be dominant in my life.
But before getting depressed, let's prepare for and be successful in the exams! :*

The best book I've ever read

During the last week I find a very interesting book to read. Its author is Keith Suter who is an Australian consultant on strategic planning. The book I'm reading now deals with the most important 50 questions that can be raised towards world issues, like: Is China the next super power? Can the West win the war on terrorism? Is the world running out of oil? Why did the United States invade Iraq? Will there ever be peace in Israel and Palestine?

The answers seem to be self significant, but the writer considers the asking in every point of view. Thus he can give a wide spectrum and the reader can realise that these international issues are rather complex and their solutions aren't easy at all. I chose this book because I think we should understand what's going on in the world in these days. The style and the language that the writer uses are easy to comprehend so every reader can have a clear picture about the topic Keith Suter is dealing with. I can recommend this book to everyone, because it's a really good one.

Parties

The last two week was pretty crowded by programs for me. Besides my busy daily programs I could participate in some parties, too.

First, as I'm living in a dorm with full of medical students that party was a special one. It started as a competition among the floors. People had to form groups according to which storey were they living. Each group had to different activities, like activity, creating poem by using different and given medical terms (with rhymes, of course) or karaoke. Actually these games were very enjoyable and we had to do our best to obtain the most points. Our exercise was the creation of a poem and it was really hard to write it sensible and meaningful but we succeeded it. The whole point of this type of game turned out when we had to read it. The members of the group had to drink a bottle of beer at every single rhyme. I made a try, but the drink was extremely cold, so I couldn't finish it.
After that we went to the ground floor to dance and entertain ourselves. The kind of music wasn't the best one: only oldies were played. Well, I like listening to those singers (George Michael or Bonny M), but I couldn't really dance on those songs. But the whole athmosphere was pleasant and I enjoyed that night.

The second recent party was the Italian-Spanish-French Department Evening ( so called "szakest") organised by us. It was considered to be a big event, since the last Eve had been held years ago. The place was in the foyer of the Cinema Uránia and it seemed to be a good decision: the sofas and the chairs were comfortable, everyone could sit on besides the place didn't become crowded. It was just perfect. :) We started with activity and it was really funny. We had to act out things that were in connection with the cultures of those speaking nations (food, traditions, expressions). That game was followed by a real Latin party with Italian, Spanish and French melodies. Unfortunately I had leave earlier but everyone said that this event was really-really good and we should repeat it sometimes in the future. ;)

Murphies

After this two week's lack of inspiration...I would like to write about something really interesting. (I hope it will be at least :) )

So, as you know I travel to home every week. This Friday I was full of baggage, because I had a lot to bring home. Before this Friday the bus was almost empty, but I had only a few packages with me. Yesterday it was a different situation: I had huge luggage and the bus was full of people, moreover I had to be standing until the half of the journey. But if I had had fewer things with me, there wouldn't have been so many people. Anyway, mass is always there when I have much luggage.

I was thinking about the things of life: was it a kind of conspiracy? I mean that the worst things happen to me when I don't really count on them. As I was thinking, several similar issues came into my mind. I want to enlist these Murphy's Laws. Some of them are funny and some of them are true. Enjoy! :)

- If anything can go wrong, it will.
- If many things can go wrong, they will all go wrong at the same time.
- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
- Nothing is as easy as it looks.
- Everything takes longer than you think.
- If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
- Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
- Every solution breeds new problems.
- You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
- A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage.
- The greater the value of the rug, the greater the probability that the cat will throw up on it.
- If your looking for more than one thing, you'll find the most important one last.
- After you bought a replacement for something you've lost and searched for everywhere, you'll find the original.
- No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
- Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it.
- Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
- In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
- Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.
- Just when you think things cannot get any worse, they will.
- Any time you put an item in a "safe place", it will never be seen again.
- Great ideas are never remembered and dumb statements are never forgotten.
- The clothes washer/dryer will only eat one of each pair of socks.
- Every rule has an exception except the Rule of Exceptions.
- Chaos always wins, because it's better organized.
- The wind will always blow opposite to your hairdo.
- Behind every little problem there's a larger problem, waiting for the little problem to get out of the way.
- In order for something to get clean, something else must get dirty.
- No matter how perfect things are made to appear, Murphy's law will take effect and screw it up. :D

Mornings...

I've been confused since the last weekend's restitution of watches: my "usual" daily routine got ruined. I can stay up until 2 a.m. but I cannot get up in the morning so suddenly. In order to start my mornings, I have to do several things.

First of all, I set my phone to wake me up 30 minutes earlier than I would do. Thanks to this I can relax a little bit and I can think through the events of the whole day.
Secondly, I use cold water for washing my face. I know that it sounds drastically, but I feel that only this can help me to start the day.
After that I turn on the radio and listen to some music and if I find something enjoyable, I do a little gymnastics.
Finally, I have breakfast and vitamins.
Because of my tiredness I have to apply all of these methods but finally I get ready for a fatiguing school-day.

Violence

Nowadays news is full of violence and aggressive moments. If you watch TV in evening, you'll probably hear about some brutalities taking place in the Middle East. Unfortunately it's almost usual that daily 50 or 100 people die because of explosions and street riots in Iraq.

But we don't have to go so far to get to know about such news. In few weeks time the leading news are about aggressive kids beating up their teachers. I think these situations are very tragic, because it seems to be the result of unsolved conflicts and tension. At this point a question can be raised: whose is the responsibility in these cases? Whom should be blamed about these?

I think this problem has several reasons. We cannot blame only the teachers on not being able to keeping discipline in classroom. We should talk about the family background of these children. I know many people whose parents have aggressive habit, like beating their children if they are unsuccessful in their studies. They just deduce their tensions this way. In my opinion this attitude doesn't lead to solutions, it just makes children behave similarly. In primary schools stronger kids keep terrifying the weaker and/or cleverer ones. These children tend to continue this method in their secondary schools against their teachers.

I'm really desperate about it, because I would like to be a secondary school teacher and I've started to afraid of these cases. I'm thinking of how to solve these events, but I'm unable to find a perfect kind of solution. According to newspapers, teachers have to communicate with these students, or psychologists have to treat them. I can partly agree with them, but I guess we have to change our life style by getting rid of violence towards the others.