Welcome to my Diary!

This is my blog. I changed its concept recently ... he became my therapist … a sort of a relief  … someone who will always hear me out and will never judge. Thus I put my personal posts in PRIVATE and I will keep them just for me … to remember …

This is a space to express myself in written form and in images. This is only my world.

WELCOME TO MY DIARY!

9 months later

Here I am … 9 months later … no don’t worry, no children yet, just a school year came to its end. Let’s see if I managed to realize some things that I’ve planned.

- I don’t speak Japanese yet, too bad … let’s postpone it for the next school year. Started to teach Russian in a school … ufffa … this children are a nightmare.
- Extra classes … mmmm … God help me to pass my exams, no time for extras.
- Did some yoga, aquagym and climbing … understood that I have a back pain from aquagym and that yoga is not for me, but I managed to do some climbing classes. So I will take climbing more seriously starting from this summer.
- Found a work, a part-time job in a jewel gallery. Fun, something different with a use of Russian and lot’s of time to study and do my own stuff during my working hours.
- Did my own project and found a great group of students who make laboratories for children on peace education.
- Had a cinema classes and took part in a short movie, travelled, spent all my free time to get to as many (free) cultural events as possible.

Not bad I would say …

Recipes continue

So let’s continue about my experiments in the kitchen. One evening as always waiting for my love from work, I decided to make the pancakes. Here is a simple and tasty recipe: - half litre of milk - 2 eggs - salt and sugar - flour - olive oil

Whip the eggs, add a spoon of oil and milk, sugar and salt, whip everything again. Carefully add flour and whip into a not dense dough. You can fry with oil or add one more spoon of oil in the dough. You can eat pancakes with honey, jam or roll them with any kind of filling you want.

Italians do not eat soups but I like almost all kind of soup and here is one of my favourite recipe. Vegetable Soup.

Ingredients:

Boil potatoes, onion, carrot and peas. Whip everything in a blender in cream. Add butter, salt, pepper, parmigiano and fresh tomato. Whip everything again until the homogeneous consistency.

- 4 medium-size potatoes - 1 onion,  1 carrot - peas 100 gr. - half tomato - butter, salt, pepper - parmigiano

Bon appetit! Enjoy your meal! Dobrou chuť! Buon appetito! Приятного аппетита!

Student life

Well, I always liked to be a student, not in a way of studying, but in a way of having the status of the student that allowed me to do so many extraschool activities. Here, the educational system is different. I am already in the sea of the opportunities to do as a student (though, have to find a job also), starting from the choice of the subjects you can have and a freedom to frequent any other course on your own.

My plan is:

- do some sport (there is a sport centre, that is giving you a possibility to do sport for a very low subscription fee)
- learn Japanese and continue learning French (there is a language centre, that is giving you the possibility to learn languages for 36 euro/course)
- take some extra classes (the university is a public institution, so I can frequent any course I want (except of the ones that have a special status of closed major) I can not have exams and extracredits, but I don’t care, I can have them on my own faculty)
- find a work (some hours a week can be good for my pocket and  for my mental health)
- realise some projects (there are a lot of possibilities in the nongovernmental area also, though the workers are really sleeping, kind of an italian way of doing the things)
- of course travel, a lot of traveling
- etc (more and more of other things)

Beaurocracy

One year I was trying to figure out my life and our future. It took me 3 months of bureaucratic issues to make a 3 months entrance visa for Italy and another half a year of paper work to make all the necessary documents for my university. I spent lots of money also (will not count the days and hours spent in the waiting rooms and nerve cells).

Now I can say that I know more than the people working in the front offices. Honestly saying, sometimes I was on the edge to give up everything and continue my life back home and our distant relationship. Though with the help of my family and with the support of my beloved one and his family, WE (all) finally DID IT!!!

To be continued …

I definitely decided to continue my blog …  my personal posts remain as private and I will leave public the things I want to tell to everyone. So … I think this will be about my new life as a student, about Italian way to do the things and about the freedom of movement.

Let’s start from a brief abstract … I am presently in Florence, Italy. Studying Education (if I can say so in English … still can not choose the best words to translate the name of my faculty in the other languages) in Italian it sounds more nice “Facolta’ di Scienze della Formazione” laurea in Formazione Continua e Tecnologie dell’Istruzione.

Finally we came together to my education (sarcasm) and to living together (for at least the next three years). Now I am getting used to be a student again, learning the Italian way of doing the things, enjoying our time together and still keep looking for my way in this life.

To be continued …

L’eleganza del riccio

Another amazing author and another amazing book: “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” written by Muriel Barbery.

An incorporation of a great mind and searching soul. Very erudite characters and very profound thoughts. The book combines excellent language patterns expressing the main themes: philosophy, class consciousness, personal conflicts and literature.

It’s another book in my list of “read in Italian”. Here is one of my favourite quotes:

“l’eleganza del riccio: fuori e’ protetta da aculei, una vera e propria fortezza, ma dentro e’ semplice e raffinata come i ricci, animaletti fintamente indolenti, risolutamente solitari e terribilmente eleganti” “the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary and terrible elegant.”

Мазурка

Пирог в ритме с музыкой, легко, быстро и весело. Умяли мы (я и мои малые)  этот пирог за считанные минуты, он даже не успел остыть. Долго считая оставшиеся дольки, все же хотелось и другим оставить попробовать, мы в конце концов решили, что им все равно не достанется и придется печь еще один пирог.

Для этого нам понадобилось: * 2 яйца * 3 ст. ложки муки * орехи (разные, все зависит от вашего вкуса) * изюм, сахар

Разделить желтки от белков (белки положить в холодильник). Желтки взбить с сахаром, добавить орехи, изюм (можно так же добавить семечки подсолнуха и цедру лимона и все то, на что способна ваша фантазия). Добавить 3 ст. ложки муки и еще раз размешать. Взбить белки с сахаром и добавить к уже готовой смеси, все хорошо перемешать. Консистенция массы должна получится как густая сметана.
Смазать форму маслом и вылить пирог, выпекать 20 минут. Украсить по вкусу.
Приятного аппетита!