Memory from school

I have a lot of funny memories from school, especially from my junior high school. My classmates were great and they had good sense of humour. We had a lot of crazy ideas. In 3^rd class we have been supposed to wear school uniforms since October. On the last day without uniforms we decided to dress in some fancy clothes. The rule was: “the stranger costume you have, the better”. We mixed elegant clothes with casual clothes or colors which completely didn’t match to each other. Some of us had odd-looking pieces of clothing. The effect was amazing! Everybody at school enjoyed our idea and they said it was really funny. In addition, some people started to imitate us. For example, they put on their clothes inside out, girls made strange hairstyles etc. Our teacher had taken us a photo which later was placed in the school’s chronicle. It was cool that so many people got involved in our idea. I think it was really positive day and, of course, worth rememberingJ

A story

It was probably the worst day in Kelly’s life. The day she got divorced. Her marriage was a one big mistake, but she has felt upset anyway. In addition, when she was leaving a court, it started to rain. She got completely wet. “It couldn’t be worse” she thought. But life showed her that it could be – she got ill and wasn’t able to work for a week. So she was lying alone at home, getting more and more bored and depressed. Even their friends didn’t know how to help her. He didn’t want to talk with anyone.

One day Kelly was surfing the internet without any concrete aim. Suddenly she came across an offer of a travel agency. “Holiday – that’s what I need” she thought. Kelly chose a trip to Italy, because she has never been there before.

One week later she was going by taxi to the airport. Well… actually “going” isn’t an appropriate word because she got stuck in enormous traffic jam. Kelly got to the airport late, but she managed to catch a plane. After few hours she finally landed in Italy. When she was leaving the plain, she felt sun beams on her face what put her in a better mood. She got a taxi. A driver – an elderly Italian – didn’t speak English… so they were keeping silent all the way. At last they got to the hotel. When she was getting out of the car, the man turned back, smiled to her and said: “Ciao Bella!” She also smiled – the first time for a very long time.

For a few days she was sunbathing on a beach, she was going for walks along a shore, she was visiting different interesting places and talking local people – she was getting relaxed and started to forgetting the painful moments.

One day Kelly decided to go on a party which was organized in the hotel. When she came, she noticed that there are a lot of couples. She felt uneasy but she decided to stay. She sat down next to the bar, ordered something to drink and started to watch another people. Suddenly some man appeared next to her and said: “So beautiful woman shouldn’t sit down alone while everybody has fun”, and he asked her to dance. When they got tired, the man got Kelly a drink and they started to talk.  It turned out that his name was Ryan and he also came from London. He was in Italy with his friend because they organized there a bachelor party for one of them. Ryan said that he also had had an unsuccessful relationship. When he saw Kelly to her hotel room, he said that he was glad that he met her.

Kelly was delighted about this evening. Next day she had to come back to London, but unfortunately she didn’t met Ryan again in the hotel, so she even couldn’t say goodbye to him.

When she got home, she felt pretty good – the trip was the best “medicament” for her. Although she had promised herself not to look for next relationship, she was sad because she couldn’t be in touch with Ryan. However, while she was unpacking her baggage, a small piece of paper fell out of her handbag – it was a message from Ryan: “I was too shy to ask you for your phone number. Below I will write you my number and email. I hope you would like to meet me againJ”.

Kelly called Ryan few days later. She didn’t know if she wants to become romantically entangled with him, but they got on well with each other, so she didn’t want to lose this acquaintance. Time will tell if she will get back a belief that she can be happy with somebody in relationship again.

All Saints' Day vs Halloween

Like almost everyone, every year on All Saints' Day I go to the cementeries to mention those who had gone and to ignite candles on theirs graves. It takes me usually all day because graves of members of my family are outside Poznań. By the way I visit my family which lives there. For me, it's the day for making some reflections and for spending time with my family.

If it comes to halloween, I have nothing against:) I celebrate it every year. When I was a child, I and my friends dressed up as witches or ghosts and we were going from house to house, asking people for candies. We were very creative in making up our costumes and "punishments" for people who didn't give us the sweets;) It was very fun:) In my opinion it is all right to celebrate halloween in that way. A lot of people say that it is wrong because in this time we should mention the deceased, instead of organise parties and enjoy that "bad tradition from the west". Of course, I respect that opinion, but I really don't like when these people criticize ones who enjoy halloween. I am not feel guilty because of celebrating it because I think taht we should remember about those who had gone all the year, not only on All Saints' Day and the day before. And I hope they aren't offended;)

The photo which impressed me the most.

With reference to our lesson from last week I would like to share one of picture which I like the most.

This is a photo taken by Kevin Cartner. He was born in Republic of South Africa – his family emigrated there from Great Britain. Carter opposed apartheid, that is a system of racial segregation which was very common in South Africa. His photos have been published in a local newspaper so thanks to photography he could expose brutality of apartheid. In 1993 Carter and his friend went to Sudan with the aim of taking photos of starvation’s victims. One day he noticed a poor little girl who was going to place where food was being given. When she stopped for a while to have a rest, a big vulture landed near by she and observed her. In that moment Kevin Cartner took this photo:

The picture was circulated in many countries. When it appeared  in New York Times, it caused a huge reaction of readers. They wanted to know what happened with the girl. A publisher of the newspaper  wrote in reply to these questions that the girl had run away from the vulture, but they didn’t know if she had reached her destination. Cartner said that after taking a photo he had sat down near a tree and he had been crying for a long time. But people started accuse him of passivity and they couldn’t believe that he hadn’t done anything to help her. This affair was one of the reason why on 27 July 1994 Kevin Cartner commited suicide.

I like this photo for two reasons. Firstly, it makes a really strong expression on me. When I saw it for a first time, I was so flabbergasted that I couldn’t say a word. It just made me think. Secondly, this is not only a picture but also a moving story which is connected with it. It show one of the biggest problems of our world - the problem which we are still wrestle with and which is, unfortunately, still not solved.

I don’t want to write down all the reflections which come to my mind when I look at this photo, because I think that everyone should draw a conclusion by himself.

a book

During my summer holiday I read Full Dark, No Stars. The book contains four novellas which were written by Stephen King:

•           1922
•          Big Driver
•           Fair Extension
•           A Good Marriage

All of them dealing with the subject of retribution, that is deserved punishment.

These stories terrified me, but on the other hand, the book was really absorbing. The descriptions were really realistic (sometime too much) and the actions were written in way which kept me in suspense almost all the time. It was the first time when I read a book of that author, but I hope I will have an occasion to read some other books written by him.

I recommend it to you, but only on condition that you have strong nervesJ       

Neighbourhood

Well… when it comes to my neighbours, the main problem is that there are a lot of gossips. I live in small housing estate where almost  everybody know each other (I always say that it’s “the village in the city”). It’s hard to be anonymous here. If you only want to get the latest news, just go to a grocery (it’s our “gossip centre”). People are really nosy… they spy on others, sound out, compare their “valuable” notes on almost every subject. Sometimes it’s even funny, but sometimes it can be also really annoying.

On the other hand some people here are very kind. It’s nice when I go to school at the early morning and somebody tells “good morning” smiling at me or when they propose to give me a lift.

What’s more I have great memories of my childhood because we had a small bunch (there was not too many children so we sticked together) and we’ve done a lot of crazy thingsJ (A drawback was that other neighbours have known our parents and they sometimes complained about us for no apparent reason). Now we rather aren’t in touch with each other but it is still fine to remember these days.

To sum up we have our ups and downs but it could be worse. I rather try to have good relations with my neighbours. Eventually we live here together and it’s always better when atmosphere is friendly;)

REVIEW: 'Big love'

Few times I was thinking about things that I could do for person with who I am in love (how much sacrifices I could make?). But I've never thought if I could kill somebody who I love because he asked me for this... as long as I watched 'Big love'.
This movie, directed by Barbara Białowąs, is about a relationship between teenage girl and a men who is 8 years older than she. Emilia (Aleksandra Hamkało) grew up without her father. In addition she doesn't get on with her mother who is an actress and hasn't enough time for her daughter. That is way the main character seems to be rebellious and a little bit lonely. So when in her life appears Maciek (Antoni Pawlicki) she quickly gets attached to him. Unfortunately their relationship becomes really toxic soon...
'Big love' in very courageous way shows how people's aspirations to reach an ideal love could destroy everything, in defiance of intended aim. What makes story more interesting is strongly developed psychological aspect of this situation.
In fact I really appreciate this movie because of two things - acting and soundtrack. In my opinion a cast is really professional. Although these are young actors, they managed playing so difficult roles. And soundtrack... for me it is sensational. Music creates here great background for the story. It makes integrity.
I recommend 'Big love' rather for older audience (I mean - not for children), because the plot is serious and could be difficult to understand. Anyway this film is moving and really worth to see. I encourage you to watch it:)

Few words for the beginning

Hi everyone:))
I was thinking for a long time about subject of my blog. I finally decided that I would like to write about art because I'm interested in it a little. I want to share with you works of art (not only visual art, but also music, film etc) which I find interesting and which impressed me in some way. I hope you will enjoy it:)