It's over again...

     I can't believe it's all over again. I am happy to be finally out of school of course, to finally not have to keep all the information and facts on my mind, to forget the feeling of all duties and consequences...to get rid of that burden at last. But I just can't believe how fast it has flown by. I feel it didn't even last a moment. I wasn't able to realize it and it was already over.

     I wouldn't even think about it that much if it wasn't the last time. I still have a year...I still have to come back to that familiar building after the summer is over (which I believe will fly by not less incredibly) but we all have been going through the grades still coming back every fall, not even thinking about it and now it's the last time. It's also the last summer with no school worries, then it'll be all college, dorm, job and all that stuff.

     And sadly, it also means a goodbye to a friend. Kelsey was our exchange classmate for this year and the whole class gets along with her very well. She usually makes you smile. It's definitely fun to be around her as well as it's nice to talk seriously.  I must say she did a good job with learning Slovak :) She is "veľmi šikovná!" And she also taught me a lot..not only about the language.
Nevertheless, it's time for her to return to NY and discover all joys and pains of college experience. She will be missed but we all will be excited to see what her new life brings.
     The other day, we were just chilling when we got a spontaneous idea, dressed up quite hippie style and went out to take pictures. We didn't care about my neighbours looking out their windows and staring at us, or even giving us advice of nice backgrounds. Those will be nice memories...

Never too old

      I wake up and go get ready for school when I get a text from a friend and all of a sudden I find myself getting ready for something else instead.
      We took a spontaneous train trip to a city about an hour away where the annual art film fest was held. Tickets for the movie we liked were already sold out so we went down see whatever they were playing and actually it wasn't too bad. I believe those were series of short films made by students of The Academy of Arts.
      Anyway, this is what we ended up doing and enjoyed the most...until it started to make us feel a little sick.

There's pigeons all around me

This has been a quite cold day. After I had gone to the train station to see my friend off I had some time left before I had to meet friends for a picnik in the castle garden. So I thought I would wait in the park. I was sitting on a bench with a thermos of hot cocoa in my bag. I saw lots of pigeons hanging around. Did you know that they walk like Egyptians, as well as chickens do. That's just one of the interesting things you can learn while waiting in the park by yourself. I realized my mom had given me a box of cake pieces so I decided to share with my birdy friends. They found it very  grateful.

The castle garden looked so beautiful. We had to say goodbye to three of our dear friends who had successfully graduated and are being moved to an older youth group. Most of us are joining them in a year anyway. (not sure if that's a good or bad thing to think of..)

Say Cheese....

I've won a photography contest. There is an exhibition held in the city art house for a week.  It's my 4th official photo sucess so far. To be honest, I don't feel a big deal about it. I don't know. It feels great, it does of course...especially hearing my dad say all about being proud and stuff. It was actually sort of him who did everything. He had the pictures printed and mailed. I am thankful and I do feel very lucky to have the equipment and support of something I enjoy at the same time. It's maybe that sometimes I think about how it would be if I had something new, something different ...my own dream to work on, a passion for something that I can be sure I found in myself not inherited. Be the misunderstood outcast :D well, I guess not really..I guess I'm alright just the way I am :D

These pictures got awarded

This one won the first contest I've ever attended. Oh, I was so excited! My mom would even compare it to Saudek or Monet :D

Bonjour

I got an 'exellent' mark in French class for my grade report today. I am so thankful!
French language is beautiful.
Still, my French is pretty "pauvre"

This playful French song has been stuck in my head recently. I wake up and find myself singing .."Quatre consonnes et trois voyelles c'est le prénom de Raphaël je le murmure à mon oreille..."

Some homemade Crème brûlée can make the day even better...

If I were a flower, I would be a poppy

The season of my favourite flower has obviously just arrived and it's a delight to me to spot it anywhere along the way as I go day by day. There's poppies everywhere, next to the curb as I go to school, behind the newsagent's as I get off the bus, in a wonderfully red field as I look out a car window.

I don't even know why I like poppies. Maybe it's the colour. It's not ordinary red. You can't just buy them. They are wild flowers, they are free. I feel they appear and vanish just anywhere and anytime.

Everytime I saw them I thought I must go pluck some but it was never a good time. Finally today I came home with a bunch of poppies. They would make a perfect hair accessory only, they wouldn't stay alive too long.

So I will rather press them and so keep them forever :)

                                 

When I was little we used to go on day school trips to zoo or to see a castle. We would always buy all sorts of stupid things to bring home as souvenirs. Once I bought a blue poppy mug. I haven't seen blue poppies so far.  I got a discount because it was a little cracked. It's been one of my favourite tea mugs since then.

                                      

It just reminded me of one of the lovely stories of my childhood. The Poppy Doll And The Butterfly Emanuel.

                       Flowers are a gift

Melody of the Week

I keep randomly singing this one and then it always gets stuck in my friend's head.
I just love this song.

A year left

I went on the very last school trip with my class this week. We went to the country and spent two days at a cosy cottage. It was a lovely place. There was a swing, stream in the garden, trampolines, horses, sheep Lisa and Sandra and lots of other cool things. It is hard to believe that it's been almost 7 years since we first got together as 10 year-olds and also that in just a year this all will be over. However and wherever each one of us will end up, I will always be thankful for the privilege of spending 8 years of my life with these folks. I know there has been a reason for me going to this school though I may still not be sure what exactly it means and I might never find out the whole story behind but I have one more year to seek and see how it is way more than just attending a high school with sevaral random students.

 

 It was such a great feeling to forget about all tests and future questions for a while and just rest and enjoy being in the friends' company. Of course we snapped a few pictures while there.

 

Possibly the bestestest swing in the world.