Pictures and their interpretation

Do you remember your maturity exam? I do, I was really anxious. Not because I didn't study - I studied a lot - but because of the Polish exam in which we had to interpret one or two texts. It was a strange task, because I always thought something different than my Polish teacher. 

Then, when I studied psychology, I heard that it is completely normal. Everybody has different life experiences and sees the world through them. Let's make a simple example. The boy A had a very happy childhood: he spent it with his friends, playing games, riding a bike, having fun. The boy B was kept at home: he could not go out to play with his friends because he could have get a cold. Years later those two men: A and B, see the same picture of a boy who looks out of almost-closed door of a shed. His face is covered by a shadow so it's hard to precise his facial expression. What will those men say if they are asked to interpret the picture? The man A will say: 'this boy plays hide and seek game and he tries to guess where is the catching-person'. The man B will say: 'this boy is disappointed because he would like to get out but he cannot - his mother told him not to do it'. 

So, if everybody sees the world the other way round, what do we interpret the world for??? 

A little bit of rest

Would you like to take some rest? Yeah, me too. Fortunately (for me, maybe for you too), in a month I will be a free person. I finish my exams the 23th of June and I am going to take a few days off at work and celebrate the beginning of the vacations! 

Friday and Saturday I finally took some rest. After long, long time of stress and work, I feel much better. I met with my friends and it was a great time. Yesterday I also tried to listened to Schults' autogenic training, but it didn't relax me as much as I would wish. Anyway, thanks to this one day off I felt much better. 

Today I have something to do for school and for work, but I don't want to sacrifice my whole that to it - as soon as the weather get's pretty I'm going to go for a walk and take yet a little bit of rest on Malta.

Because it is true that if you feel relaxed and rested, you have more energy and more zeal to work :) 

Kitty

I have a friend who works (free of charge) in the organisation which takes care of cats. Actually, I really admire her, because she sacrifices all her free time to do it. Not only her, but also her boyfriend. They fight for better life for those cats who had been abandoned or badly treated by their owners. They also catch ownerless cats, cure them and find for them a good home.

I like cats, my parents have two little creatures who’s names are Tuśka and Kizia. The second one is little and she is really sweet. She likes everybody and she wants to play all the time. Last time when I was at home I played with her so long and so intensively that, as my mom said, the next two days she was astonishingly  calm she moved as if she had muscle soreness! :)

And now, the clue: I actually like cats so much I would like to have one at home. I don’t want to buy a super-noble animal for 2000 zloty or something only because it has a pedigree. I am not a kind of person who loves animals so much but I would prefer to take one who has no home.

And there comes a problem: our flat is new, pretty and cosy, and it smells nice. And my boyfriend threatens me that  if I take any cat he will check if it can fly from the 6^th floor.

So, how am I supposed to live with that???

Future job

I the future I would like to be a translator, but not the one who spends all their life in front of the computer and translates hundreds of pages. I need to contact other people to feel good. I discovered that I could not work as a closed-at-home-translator when I accepted a job offered to me by my boss when I was doing an internship at the Italian translation and localization office in Bologna. When I worked there, among different people, I felt really well. But when I started to work here, in Poznań, via Internet, it was a disaster. I was feeling like a prisoner, chained to the laptop, alienated and sad. This experience helped me to make some important decisions: I want to work with people, I want to translate, but there must be a balance.

I think that the best work would be if I could translate some documents, books and so on, but also meet clients, talk to the people, have a trip sometimes. I have made sure that it is a good choice also since I teach Italian:  it is really great to see the people’s reaction, to talk to them, even to talk about something that completely departs from the subject.

So, balance, balance, balance. This is the answer.

We're getting old!

My calendar is full, but I read today good news on the Internet: people who do many things have better minds and more active brains. There was a research made by American (who else!) scientists, and yet they are not sure if the activity influences the development of brain or on the other way round. However it is, I have a new reason to feel better: I have quite a developed brain... ;) 

So, me and my brain, we are going to the wedding on the 4th June! It's my best friend's sister's wedding. I can't believe she is going to be a wife, it seems so incredible. Yes, I have to admit it, I have reached the age when everybody is getting married and everybody is having children. This is the same time when you discover first wrinkles and first white hair on your head (I did, actually, several weeks ago). It's time when you should start to look for specials creams and so on... oh God. I'm getting old. 

Lately, me and my friend have had a conversation about the things that change in our lives. We used to play volleyball, we used to have no problems, we used to talk about movie stars and we used go to the teen parties. Now, everything changes so quickly that I did not realize when I started to think about a house, about children, marriage and so on, but I really did. I actually became the person, years ago I would have considered boring and old. Funny :) 

And, when we analyzed things that really happened... well, I had never expected that it would have gone that way. But I believe that the fate (and the God) does not do mistakes. And if a had a chance to go back and change something, I wouldn't change anything.