I always have a nostalgic feeling when I come back to the memories from my childhood.
It was the time that you could sit idly doing nothing and you didn't need much to feel happy...
Thanks to my loving parents and older brother, who was very protective, I had a very good and happy childhood.
Unfortunately, the older you becomes, the more duties and problems appear in your life.
But what one has to remember is the fact that with a little help from the people who love us, everything is gonna be all right:)
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Choose one moment in history that you would like to change.
Quite a difficult task... There were so many terrible events in the history of the humankind that I would like to change almost everything.
It's an exaggeration of course, but it's hard to choose one event.
Surprisingly, research done for my diploma paper gave me some ideas. I writing about important couples in British monarchy. It seems dull, but it isn't so. Believe me:) I've already conducted the lesson about Henry VIII and his six wives and on Thursday I am conducting the lesson about Princess Diana and Prince Charles.
And it is Diana that I want to write about. I watched the famous interview she gave in 1995, two years before her death and, frankly speaking, I was trembling... She had so many problems in her life and felt so lonely. But despite this, she helped so many people. Spending time with her sons was a great consolation for her. She did her best to forget about her unhappy love and marriage. And then she died.. so suddenly. For me, it's one of the most sad stories in the recent history.
That is why...
If I could travel in time, I would appear in the hotel she stay at in Paris and tell her not to get in a car or to choose different direction. I don't really now what I would tell her.. Maybe I would do something with the car they traveled in, so that they would not be able to set off.
I think I motivated my actions at the beginning of my post, but thinking about the the royal weeding that took place last year, I am sure it would be a great pleasure for her to see her older son getting married.
I know that my task was to write something funny and entertaining and that what I wrote isn't so. Nevertheless, I am sure that whoever saw the interview, would think that her death was a great loss.
Here is the extract from the interview:
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
J.R.R Tolkien - " The Lord of the Rings" & "The Hobbit"
FIRST COVER DESIGN
Quite a long time has passed since the first J.R.R Tolkien's book was published... almost 60 year
My first "meeting" with J.R.R Tolkien was quite unusual...
I was on a scout camp (more precisely, on a cub camp) and we played... hobbits. Our task was to find a treasure and to defeat the dragon. At that time I didn't know the story at all and frankly speaking... I didn't know who hobbits were.
But that was the time when the magic world of elves, hobbits and dwarfs enchanted me...
Firstly, I read "Hobbit".
Then "The Fellowship of the Ring" movie appeared in the cinemas. I watched it and get completely fascinated with the story of a small hobbit Frodo, who sacrificed himself in order to save the world he lived in...
All three books I simply devoured.
For me, J.R.R Tolkien was a genius and I have NEVER "met" a better writer.
The way he created The Middle Earth: with maps, languages, family trees. His books are perfect, every detail is described. Reader may even have an impression that Tolkien really lived in that world:)
J.R.R Tolkien showed me that even living in a world full of cruelty, one may still find truth and hope!
Being 22 years old I can't imagine living without the knowledge of any foreign language at all. When I was younger I thought that knowing different languages is important; now, I think it is necessary. Today, the world is like a one global village: people communicate all over the world, they make international friends and travel easily. In today's world not knowing another language is like being a mute being not able to express the most basic needs.
Let's take the example of English language. Almost all world is learning English...so should the Americans and the British resign from learning foreign languages? Of course not..
Firstly, not all people speak English. I will give you an example from my own life. Two years ago I took part in IST project during my studies. I visited a small village in France where we (the group of Poles, Czechs, Brits and one German girl) met a lady (she was our host) who came from Switzerland. She knew French, German and English, but she refused to speak the last one. There was a funny situation when she listened to the conversation in which the British also took part (the conversation was in English) and answered their questions or expressed her opinions in French or German. The British seemed quite astonished... they were forced to use foreign language and they did it.
Secondly, knowing another language is " good for your brain". You practice your memory and your communicative competence is higher. When speaking English I somehow feel that my mind works...and I am sure that it also works with other languages!
I regret that I know only one language well.. I've been learning German for five years but I don't feel good at it.
I can't imagine myself not knowing English at all. This will deprive me of the opportunity of travelling, experiencing the world and making friends...
