I have 2 and a half hours left from my 40 hours net, so the only time I can play AO is after midnight (it’s unlimited and cheaper after midnight to 7 am). However today I have to go back to Budapest so I won’t be able to play at all. This is why I am writing a post.
First of all about the AIESEC TEACH conference. I liked it very much. It was awesome to meet all the Hungarian AIESEC-ers and the conference had a special atmosphere as well. I had the time of my life there at some points. It was great to party with so many people around me forgetting about everything on the Earth. It was great to listen to Dan - the Rumanian guy - talking about feedback giving, as he put his heart and soul to make us, listeners understand. It was great playing table football with some of my LC-mates. (I have never really played it before, only once or twice, so I was a real newbie.) It was great sitting on the train heading back and talking about everything, though everyone was so tired. All in all these little moments made the whole conference a nice memory, one that I will always think of smiling.
This weekend I finally could finish Amelie. I restarted from the beginning and I felt exactly the same I felt last time. This movie has charms. The French language - which I always disliked because of being aristocratic, posh and difficult - really fits the atmosphere. The story is really cute, at some points really funny but sometimes very serious. And the love story of Amelie - unlike some of the Hollywood stories - fells more realistic. My favourite part in the film is when Amelie plays that hide-and-seek spy-game with the photo machine guy. So cute.
Skipping some time we arrive to a day before yesterday. That morning I had nothing to do and I was just browsing the films on my hard drive. I started to watch ‘High Fidelity’, though I didn’t know the title, I had no idea about the style or type of the movie. Well, the film was good. I really understood the main character, he was a little like me (well, he actually meets girls unlike me, but still…). Then when the film ended the great surprise came: ‘based on the novel of Nick Hornby’. W00t! I always meet the book and movie: ‘About a Boy’ however I knew nothing about it. Now I think I caught a glimpse of what kind of books this guy writes, and I may read them. Pity I cannot buy any books, because they are too expensive.
Yesterday I mainly played AO. A kind girl bureaucrat called Chela and my Kinizsi friend helped me to find Mantis Scissors and finally we were successful. The only thing I need is to level to 146 to be able to put it on. Here I have to mention how awesome I found the fact that there are many people who help me free of charge. Really kind people still exist.
Hm. This would be the longest post ever. I felt this would happen as today morning I woke up immensely sad and confused. I hate Sundays when I have to leave my home and family behind to go back to school. Call me a child I don’t care I still have better time at home than with anyone. In AIESEC I meet very nice people all the time however they do not know me that much I think and I am not the kind who makes friends easy. And I don’t very much like my accommodation either. It’s dirty no matter what I do, partly because my roommates don’t care about tidiness and partly because as it is one room we use as bedroom, kitchen, hall, sitting room, etc. So however much I try to ‘fit in’ the university community and life in Budapest I still cannot. Still I feel really really bad.
I feel guilty. :) I decided to miss today’s double-German. (Last week the lessons were cancelled and the teacher decided, that as compensation there would be 2 lessons today.) As I see, 75 minutes of German is quite a lot, but 150 minutes is simply mortal. Well, seriously, I do think that my problem with German is caused by the fact, that I already know English in proficiency level and I know how hard one has to work to reach it.
Today I saw a bus of {Star Coaches} two times with a cool text on it. It reads: “Don’t panic. This is not Apollo 13. And the driver is not Tom Hanks” :)) Cute.
What I hate most in the world right after German is headache. And now I have one in addition to my sore throat. I really need some sitting in my armchair in front of my computer and play AO… a lot :)
By the way I didn’t forget my promise about the TEACH conference, I’ll right about it at home I think.
Back from the TEACH conference. :) I enjoyed it very much, and I am planning to write about it a little bit longer. However now - as usual - I have only minutes to write a post as I have a German lesson. Have I mentioned before, that I pretty much hate German? Now I do. I don’t like it. I don’t like the languages in which I cannot express myself, and German is one of these. on has to learn tons of complex and difficult rules to say even the easiest thing. And not only does the grammar suck but also the words do. They are long, diffcult and very hard to learn. Of course I don’t want to offend any German-speakers here, I just want to say that it is extremely hard for me to learn and even more, to speak this language.
I am planning to go home on Wednesday. I am sooo eager to play AO and forget about school stuff a bit. I am also tired because of the exhausting conference-weekend as well.
I am very surprised ho organised I am. :) Managed to write a post yesterday and today as well… amazing. :) I found out other computers at our lab where one can FTP (not all of them are capable :( ) so from now on there is an increasing chance of updating.
My written tests were quite successful (the ones I already know) so I am satisfied. They were not that difficult as I have expected though.
Tomorrow starts the TEACH conference of AIESEC at Balatonberény. So I won’t post anything until next Monday (If I’ll have time then…). I am looking forward it hoivere much tiring it is. Because as usual AIESEC gatherings are the following: morning, afternoon: education, work, trainings, etc while at night: partying ; sleep: nothing at all ; consequence: total fatigue. Hehe, like I were that rested and fresh now.
Yawns I attended a so called sleepover which had started yesterday and meant a night-long brainstorming and project organising. It was very tiring (AIESEC fellows said I was sleeping at the end however they did not know I only rested my eyes… :)
The other (bigger) problem is, that I have to write a sociology test in an hour. So I’d better stop post-writing and start tuning me up to the challange that awaits…
Hm. I think it will be tough to express myself in English. I started to watch Amelie today. however I had to abandon it because I need to pack and catch my train as usual on Sundays. I hate stopping to see films without seeing the end. A film incomplete leaves an empty space in one’s thoughts. And the atmosphere of this movie is so catching that one can hardly return to the ‘real world’. I read on Ragnar’s journal that this film must be seen in French. I now totally agree that. I didn’t like French ever, but I have to admit that it has charms, it has music.
Well, I have to see this film in complete soon. I am curious.
Played much AO today again. Well I won’t play again until about 2 weeks, so it is understandable. However I feel guilty about not spending much time with my family. They see me on weekends only and even then I am sitting at my computer… well, luckily they understand my little addiction.
My yesterday illness flew away, I am fully helathy. I do think I have a relatively good immune system as I am very rarely ill and even if I am it won’t last long. Not to mention the fact that I seldomly pick up an infection if sick people are around me. Luckily. :)
Next week an AIESEC conference will be held from Thursday to Sunday so I doubt I will have time to update my journal at all. I hope I can squeeze a little post out at least. ;)
Hm. No update since the law exam (it was VERY easy…) again, but now I have pretty strong excuses:
Firstly I am sick, I have fever and all this stuff… it is likely a virus and I do hope I will be healthy again after a few days. Luckily it caught me yesterday, not a day before, because I had a mathematical analysis exam that day. About analysis: it was far easier than I was told and expected. Maybe I misunderstood things but I could solve the problems pretty fast… Lets hope I did everything right and the exam was easy for real.
Secondly… well you must have noticed it. Yep. The new site design. I thought I need a cooler site than SeSam.hu was, one that reflects my current skills in image-editing. :) If you like it - or not - feel free to drop me a {mail}.
Law exam today. I am so glad I didn’t choose law school. ;) Law can be very interesting at some points as it is slightly more complex than it seems to be for the first sighet. However learning it is very exhausting for me. I hate learning things by heart, like exceptions, definitions, rights, etc. Pity law is built up of mainly these. :)
By the way: mystical things happeing again, now with my mailbox. I wasn’t able to download my messages for 3 days. The server returned either a ‘bad login’ error or an unknown error… with the same login name and password that worked for months. Weird. Today I was able to download all my mail. With the login unchanged. Seeems like there are Bermuda-triangles in the net as well. :) To be honest I have a possible explanation for this phenomena. This mailbox is a free mailbox mainly for web-based mail checking and pop3 download is only an option. But my mail delivery program checked the account every 2 minutes and it may have caused a temporary disable of the service to protect the servers. I mean not that my 2 minute checking would cause overload on thir mail server I just think they may have a rule that if one checks his/her mail too much with pop3 he/she needs to be banned for a time. Maybe.
I must admit AO is highly addictive. I spent most of today by playing AO, and I haven’t noticed the time flying by. I successfully levelled to 136 and collected elite dog-tags. However the most heartwarming thig was that many people offered nanos and various help to me. This means I am not totally forgotten due to my unstable presence on Rubi-Ka. This is most pleasant.
I also watched K-Pax today. A very interesting movie, that makes those little wheels in the brain move. I liked the way it kept up the thrill of the watcher. No real action was going on only signs, sentences that can mean different things, etc. I like most of the films I see, however not all of them can do what K-Pax did. I started to think about the questions and problems the film set after I saw it. I regard this trait one of the most important of any movie.