Phraseology hangover

Today Minka asked me when I was going to write something new so I have to scribble something, right? Although it's messy. Well here I am! Some school-related updates. Maybe this blog should be about school? Anyway ... :)

Yesterday the spring semester started for Slovene students. And today I had my first lesson on Slovene lexicology, phraseology and word formation. Phraseology is funny. Not particulary in one language but when you try to transfer a set phrase from one language to another, that's when it becomes a bit funny.

For example: I remembered a funny story that happenned when I was doing no. 11 on my "Holidays to-do-list". We went to the best (and the only) discoteque in Slovenia to a party. About an hour away from my place. I had to drive back home because everyone else were ... well, you know ... hammered. :P We were pulled over by the police and I was reaaaallly nervous because that was my first experience with it so I was shaking and babbling stupid things. Then I didn't find my documents. Then I didn't know where all the equipment is because the car wasn't mine. Well it was also 5 am and I was a bit tired. Then he tested my alcohol level. 0,0 of course. And you know what happenned next? When we were supposed to go our car didn't start because we left the lights on for a few hours.

What to do? My boyfriend talks too much. Especially when he's had a drink or two. He just called the policemen over: "Hey, would you come and help us push our car? You're the ones who stopped us anyway." OMG. Would you please stop provoking? But it sure was funny. The cops pulled us over and then helped us start our car again.

However, what I ment to say in the beginning: I was driving that night because I was the only sober person in the group. And that was only because I partied too much with my girlfriends the night before and I had a HUUUUGE cat in the morning so I was too tired to do it again.

A huge cat? Well that's the phraseology part. In Slovene language there is a phrase "to have a cat" for the morning after the great party - the hangover part. Meow! It sounds funny in English. :)

Poppy

Animal eater

Today I was SOOOO hungry I ate a fox, two squirrels, a bear, a hedgehog, two snails and a moose!

I love my new cookie cutters :)

Poppy

Old Photos

Do you like old photos? I know I do ... I miss a little bit of black and white in our overdeveloped society. :)
Yesterday my boyfriend had to work. Of course that means I got bored because no one entertained me. :P Then I asked him if I can see those photos he once mentioned.

I got a nice little box of photos and a biiiig smile on my face. With the permission of the models I am showing some fo the photographs here. :)

I have never seen my boyfriend's photos before. And he was so cute when he was little! Look at that face. :D My cheek muscles still hurt from all the laughing and smiling. :) He definitely was cute.


Then I found some photos of his mom. She's now in her fifties and when you meet a person in their fifties it's a bit hard to imagine what they looked like when they were young. Well she definitely knew how to pose! :)


I was also impressed by her clothes, nice coats and skirts that I would love to wear today. :) In this photo I particularly like her hairstyle. It's so sixties. :)

And then I found their wedding photos. She told me about this dress before. She bought it in some boutique in Italy and she also bought gloves and the hat to match and she still has that dress in her closet and she is sure it would fit me! Can you feel any "suggestopedia" there? :P

And then I found some beauuuutiful photos of her husband. This one was taken in 1959 and I just love it. They lived in a small village and these are all the children from that place. I love their outfits. :)


Of course he grew up and just like everyone else he had to serve in the army. This photo isn't anything special ... it was the message on the back that I found interesting. It was from his father: "This is my 18-year-old son. Today he's leaving for the army. 12 May 1968"

But despite this not very happy message his army photos look good ... He absolutely knew how to pose. :P


I think I'll steal my mom's idea and maybe arrange these photos nicely in an album someday. As a present :)

Do you still print your photos or do you keep it digital? When I look at these I feel I should print more ... :)

Have a nice day!

Poppy

And the "Best postcard award" winner iiiiiiis ....

... do you remember? My Best postcard contest. Well I guess I'm not that popular Because I only got a few but nevertheless ... :) My dorm room is tiny anyway so that's enough. Now those postcards are decorating my tiny room:

Thank you all for sending them! :)

However, the time came, I guess there isn't any other postcard coming and I have to choose the postcard I like best. Here are my three favourites:

This one is from my friend Tine who googled my nickname and sent me some picture results. Nice one! :))

The second one is from my friend Nina. This postcard says so little but is funny when you connect the message and the picture. It made me laugh. :)

And the last one is from my friend Meta. This postcard is so weird it's funny. :D She sent it to me from Slovakia. (Which is not Slovenia, by the way ...)

And which one do I like best? My vote goes to the second one, the cute "Stay cool" Penguine. :) Sooo Nina ... you get the award! And let me know what kind of a notebook you would like to get. :)

And there's another thing. I find this postcard thing a very nice thing to do. I love sending postcards and getting them too. A nice message in your mailbox can make your day. So I figured I should try doing that more often. I found this website called "Postcrossing" where you send and recieve postcards to and from random people. So whether you want to collect some stamps, maybe some postcards, meet some people or just recieve and send a nice message from time to time, that's a very nice website that can help you with that. :)

Have a nice day, everyone!

Poppy

Hello back!

It's me again. Long time no see. :)

I've been so busy with school and term tests and exams and lesson observations reports and with just about everything. After today's exam I'm looking forward to HOLIDAYS! Forget Christmas break. There wasn't any. We still had school on 24th and I had to be back in school on 4th January. It was cruel. Well those are REAL holidays! One month without faculty, classes, professors ... can't wait. :) I'm just putting together a holidays-to-do list at the moment:

1) REEEST & RELAAAAX!!
2) Bake :)
3) Go skiing at least once. Haven't done this in 2 years so that will be a bit of a challenge for my rusty bones. ;)
4) Read books for the exam on 15th March. I know I know.. it's school but still.. it's literature for children so that should be a lot of fun. :)
5) Go to Ikea and get some bedside table lamps. 2 CUTE lamps please! And of course some other useless junk. ;)
6) Go clothes-shopping with my mum! Santa left her a little gift card or something like that. :) And I need a proper top for a party in number 11 and I need a cute purple shirt to match with these cute earrings (made by my schoolmate Andreja) for the Valentine's day date. ;) I know, my cell phone camera sux. :S

7) Take Foxy out every day and move those rusty legs of mine ... double pleasure .. :)
8) Finish some transcriptions and therefore earn some more money than in previous months.
9) Do some fun stuff ... like watch thousand episodes of some stupid series in one day :P
10) Go out with friends I haven't seen for a looong time.
11) Go to Ambasada Gavioli for a great opening party - House oldies goldies. :)

That's probably enough for now. Do you have any other suggestion? Please share, I'd love some... I know I had some more but I forget things a lot .... :)

And, oh! Another thing! I have a winner for that postcard contest! Wanna know? Stay tuned. :))

Poppy

This year's Christmas tree

Happy holidays to everyone! :)

A quick study update

So...

I'm studying for my "World literature" exam I have next Tuesday. The thing is that study materials are extensive and so much reading and no exercises (like in syntax, for example) bores me immensly. And what happens? I remember all the stupid things instead of the essence of the subject I'm studying. For example:

• Seneca was a Roman philosopher and dramatist. Roman emperor Nero accused him of "I-don't-know-what" and he was sentenced with a suicide. He was forced to kill himself! How's that possible? Can you imagine something like that? In further reading I realized this was Nero's speciality so ... nothing unusual I guess.
  
  
• A funny thing to me is how literary historians and theorist describe authors. They always tell what his / her father's occupation was. How is that relevant? Ok it's relevant a bit in the case of Flaubert, for example. He practically lived in a hospital because his father was a doctor and that reflected in his works. But come on.. John Keats' father had a rent-a-horse /carriage company. How is that relevant?
  
  
• ... and other irrellevant information. How many times they were married, which one was gay, what school they didn't finish (it's usually like that with writers, yeah ..) and what stuff they used to get high. William Blake's father voted for oppositionist liberals. ??? Nice one. :)
  
  
• One of the funniest facts today was that pre-romanticism didn't really exist. French intellectuals made it up because Germans already had romanticism and they just couldn't afford to have the same thing in France. Not appropriate. :P

Yeah.. something like that. Now I probably have to focus on the relevant things.
Maybe tomorrow, I need some sleep now to think it all over :)

Poppy