Finish

This is the last week in the spring semester. After that we go to the university to sit exams.
Time goes by so slowly?! Unfortunately, I can't agree with that. I feel that these months just flew away and I didn't have time to realize it.
Compared with February, a lot of things changed. The seasons, my relationships with people, my outlook on life. I liked this period very much and I look forward to continue my university studies in September. But before it, I have to pass the proficiency exam which is very scary for me.

I wish everybody a successful exam period and a pleasant summer holiday!
Cheers,
Barbi

Mother's Day

On the first Sunday of May in Hungary, we celebrate Mother's Day. For a lot of people it's not a real event but for me it is. But I'm sure everybody honours his or her mother. I like this day and I always try to make it special for my mother by demonstrating how important she is in my life.

Motherhood. It might be one of the most beautiful feelings of human life that every woman would like to live through. You make a decision that you will keep guard a life which is part of yours. It's an eternal love that can never cease to be. It means a close tie between mother and child.

My mother always make felt that my sister and me are the most important people for her and we give sense for her life. I feel her careness and love and this day I try to manifest my feelings into acts. I give her flowers and some little presents and her happiness on her face is worth everything.
I'm grateful to my mother because she gave birth to me and she always stands by me if I need help or support. Without her, I wouldn't be that person who I'm now.
But I'm sorry for those acquaintances of mine who can't greet their mothers today.

Style Exercise

NOTATION

In a crowded restaurant, in the cultural capital of Europe, on a Friday afternoon. A young popinjay waiter, and a thick menu. I would like to eat a pizza, I ate one a long time ago. I have to wait a lot because the restaurant is full of unpatient, edacious people. The music is too loud but it’s not able to coerce the clatter of the people. I choose one after a bit hesitation. I’m watching the people until I get it. Finally, the waiter arrives with a huge plate and a pizza on it. It’s as delicious as I expected. But I'm afraid I won’t be able to eat the pizza. It’s too big to ingest!

SURPRISES

What a crowd! I didn’t want to go to this restaurant! And the spiral staircase was scary. The pizzeria wasn’t light inside, there was rather moodlighting. It made the winding stairs recondite. But I was eager to eat a pizza. I was sure it would be toothsome. So, I coped with the long waiting time. Not to mention the waiters. They were young fops. But imagine, they could twirl the trays. I thought they were amazing because I’m quite gawky. After a long hesitation, I chose a pizza. When I got it, I was surprised!
Fancy now! It was a folded up pizza! I looked forward to cutting it and see what was inside. You can’t imagine its flavour! Oh, it was full of smoked cheese, which I like very much. And there were mushrooms in it. Guess what! I ate it. The whole pizza!

DREAM

Everything was so muddy. I saw a lot of people, I heard voices but I couldn’t hear what they were talking about. Young people were wearing uniforms and walking up and down so fast, trays with their hands. They might be the waiters. Where was I? In a restaurant? Maybe. I felt good smell from a distance, it may come from the kitchen. The trapdoor was always moving, allowing the flavour to come to me. A man approached to me. He asked what I wanted to drink. But I couldn’t speak. I heard him but I couldn’t answer. I struggled with my thoughts. I ordered a peach juice. I love it and I always order a peach juice so I thought that would be good.
I saw a thing, a book. It might have been the menu. I started to turn the pages. I found the contents’ page, I chose the pizza chapter. I chose one with difficulty.
After half an hour, I saw the same guy came to me with a huge plate, but he didn’t arrive…

PRECISION

In a crowded restaurant which can be found at 17 King Street, Pécs, in the cultural capital of Europe. On a Friday afternoon, at half past 5. In the restaurant, there were 20 wooden tables, each one with 6 wooden, high-back chairs. On the tables 5 menus, 2 wine lists, salt, pepper and ketchup in small bottles. The restaurant was baded with 58 hungry, ready-to-eat guests. 6 eager-beaver waiters who wore uniforms: black T-shirts with the logo of the restaurant, black jeans and red aprons. 3 cooks, behind the counter, who made the pizza paste.
And the pizza! 30 cm long, 7 cm high on a white plate. The filling inside the pizza: 3 pieces of ham, 2 kind of cheese: mozzarella and smoked cheese, 4 mushrooms and the sauce. I had to wait 25 minutes for my pizza. I drank 3 dl peach juice that was chilled to 18 centigrade.
I spent one hour and 8 minutes there. I paid 1200 forints. I didn’t give a tip (I hardly ever give a tip).

HESITATION

I don’t really know where and when it happened…
Did it happened in the morning or at night? Was I at home, in the dorm or in a restaurant? I went to this place to eat something. Was I alone? Or was this girl me at all? I think yes. It was me who wanted to eat a pizza in a crowded place. It was full of people. Were they people? They could have been vax puppets or robots. No, it would be too abstract.
What did I eat? Was it a pizza? Because it might have been a quiche. I suppose it was a pizza. A pizza filled with something. But what was inside it? There must have been cheese- pizzas contain cheese. That’s right. But what else? Maybe eggs. No, I don’t like eggs too much, especially in a pizza. Then what else could be in the pizza? Ham, yes, finally I found out. Delicious, thin slices of ham. It makes the pizza really savoury. Did I pay for it? Or just leave without paying the bill? I don’t think so. I would never do it.
But I’m sure I didn’t give a tip. That’s as sure as fate.

cinemas

Nowadays going to the cinema isn't an everyday habit. And it has some good reasons.
One of them is the widespread downloading of films. Although it's illegal, almost everybody does it because it's cheap or free and fast and easy. You can download the films with the same time of their display. Moreover, their quality is impeccable.
The other reason is that the tickets are expensive. As a university student, I can't afford to buy a ticket for almost 1,000 forints. Furthermore, when I go to the cinema, I always want to buy coke and popcorn and this means extra costs for me.

However, watching a film in the movie house has a special athmosphere.
When the lights go out and you hear the different sounds around you which make you excited about the film. People are making noises around you which is not as annoying as at home. And the wide canvas gives the films another enjoyable feature. These remarks distinguishes the cinema-watching from home-watching.

Honestly, I like going to the cinema and watching films there. It has advantages and disadvantages, of course. But fortunately, there are cinemas who are cheaper than the big multiplexes and some of them organize the so-called movie weeks when you can watch films for a lower price. So, sometimes I can afford to watch movies, especially those which may have a peculiar scenery.

Earth Hour

Global warming is an often mentioned term nowadays. It means the increase of the average temperature of the Earth due to the greenhouse gas concentrations. Some scientists and people deny the being of the global warming even though we can feel its devastating effects all over the world. Our weather changes every day and we have to bear this exaggerated climate. One day we feel the pleasant zephyr of spring, the other day the it's snowing like in winter. Almost 43 degree in June, or -20 degree in January was unimaginable a few years ago. It's a question whether humans are responsible for global warming.
Unfortunately, we can't turn back the process but decelerate it.

Earth hour is an international event which asks households to turn off their lights for one hour on 29 March at 8 pm. It may help to promote electricity conservation and lower carbon emissions. Earth Hour 2007 was a symbolic event in Sydney but this year several country and city decided to make it happen in their countries and cities. Earth Hour 2007 brought together families, schools, restaurants, stars. 2,100 corporation and 2,2 million people joined to this symbolic event.
Please join to those people who turn off the lights and help to save our planet. It's just a little thing but maybe it's the beginning to stop global warming.

via...

A familiar name from a distance, a jolly voice, a smiling face. I know her. She's my cousin,Anita. And she's in Turkey now because she's an Erasmus student in Ankara.
But I can see her, I can hear her voice and I can be in touch with her. All these things are possible via the Internet.

I just click one and suddenly I'm able to know everything about her. I can feel her sensations, her thoughts, we can laugh together, we can feel each other's sorrows and joys. It's amazing.

Internet is one of the most useful inventions in the world. It connects people who are in different parts of the Earth, it enables us to get information about everything we want, it makes our lives much more comfortable.
Some people say it has harmful effects. But think it over for a minute! Everything can have a harmful consequence, even the best things of the world. The problem is not with the Internet itself, but the people who use it. Because we tend to overuse things we like, and this is what happens with the Internet. So we should pay more attention to the real world around us.

Anyway, I love the Internet and I don't want to get rid of it.

Valentine's Day

Undoubtedly, that Valentine's Day is most people's favourite holiday. On 14 February lovers express their feelings to each other by sending Valentine's cards, flowers or giving corny gifts.
Honestly, I partly like this holiday, partly don't.
On the one hand, in Hungary it doesn't have such a big tradition as in the USA or in the UK. We just want to imitate them and sometimes it seems rather a lame attempt. Most people don't even know the origin of this holiday. And if you want to buy something for your beloved, you hardly ever find something special because you find the same things everywhere.
On the other hand, I like it because it's very splendid to show your love to somebody. Although I didn't buy an expensive present, I was satisfied to give a nice and personal present to my boyfriend.
In a nutshell, everybody likes getting presents from a person who admires us. This event is a good occasion to feel it!