What is a humanistic wedding ?

A humanistic wedding is a ceremony dedicated to couples which don’t identify with any religion, but want to experience this special and important day in their own ways. They are quite popular in western countries like Norway, Scotland and USA (in this countries they’re although connected with legal effects, what isn’t a rule).
The first humanistic wedding in Poland took place in 2007. Couple could choose where they want to take an oath and what exactly they put in it. The assumption of humanistic weddings is to made them as individual as possible. Almost everything depends on couple’s imagination. It become an attractive alternative for homosexual couples or divorcees. In Poland weddings like that haven’t got any legal force, but if you want you can take a civil wedding first and legalize your relation (of course if you are heterosexual only- skip at the beginning of the sentence!)
What else? If you are a fan of “Friends” probably you remember that Monica and Chandler took a humanistic wedding and the person who provide the ceremony was Joey. This option- getting married when your friend is a “master” of ceremony is really possible, too.

Few words after watching “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

It isn’t any new movie and I don’t know why I found it after ten years since its premiere. Probably because in 2004, when this film was played in cinemas I was too young to understand this rather complicated plot and topic. “Enternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” depicts relation between introvert Joel (Jim Carrey) and eccentric Clementine (Kate Winslet). They meet each other one day by chance and fall in love. But it isn’t easy for them to tolerate themselves for a long time and in the end Clementine decides that she wants to clean her mind from memories connected with Joel. It’s possible because there is a firm which do that. It’s a science-fiction aspect of a story.
I really enjoyed this film. It reminds me later (but for my watching earlier) movie titled “Mr. Nobody”, which says something about memories, too.
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is sometimes classified as romantic comedy sometimes as science-fiction drama. I prefer this second class. In my opinion this movie says something important about relationships. It’s a good choice as a film, that we can watch with whole family. For me it’s the first not-only comedy role of Jim Carrey, too.
To sum up: we can have fun watching this film and fell realistic emotions. After all, we can believe for a while that it’s possible to remove unwonted memories from our head. It’s such a great and pleasant idea, isn’t it?

How to survive the examination session? Learn a lot and… think about holidays!

It’s a well-known truth: when we have a lot of work or when we’re overtired or depressed it’s a good idea to designate some reward that we’ll get when the busy period will over. It’s a basic trick that helps us to motivate ourselves.
For students the most stressful period is the examination session, of course. This year for example during my repetition to exams I made some plans about next holidays and thought about the last (one of my favourite holiday picture below). Getting some nice plans is a quite good way to reduce stress. But there is one important rule: you have to learn hard first, not only think about reward! And that’s a challenge, because as every student know well, there are a thousands of important things (including flat cleaning!) that you have to do before you sit down… and open books.

The heroes of our childhood.

Have you ever thought about heroes of your childhood? It’s always a pleasant topic to talk with people, especially with our peers . Probably if we think about it critically, we can learn something interesting about ourselves. But please don’t treat it completely serious! It’s just a funny task during which you can fell a little bit like Freud or another famous psychologist.

I remember that for me it was very funny when my mom related me that one of my first idol from cartoon was… “Conan the Barbarian”. I was three or four when I got up every morning wanting to watch new Conan’s adventures. But there was a little problem. I couldn’t watch it on my own, because apart I loved this film I was really scared during watching it! How you maybe guess every morning when the intro-song started I radically woke up my parents and forced them to watch it with me. I suppose it isn’t their favourite experience of parenthood… But what about the other heroes?
After Conan there was a “power ranger’s” time and in the end a total fascination of little green dragon-Tabaluga. As I remember, as a child I didn’t really like this cute stories about princess, at all. My first  girl-idol was Anne from L. M. Montgomery’s series, but it was already during the primary school.
When I think about first heroes of my childhood I guess that probably I was a tomboy. As I remember, no one see anything wrong in it, and what is quite funny, it was a years before the period of “gender equality” :) How about your heroes?

“There’s no place like home”

The examination session is in progress, but I’ve already passed first exams and backed home for a week. After 1,5 years living in Poznań it’s such a funny feeling when you’re watching your home town from a “perspective of stranger”. But actually I wanted to write about something else. Returns always remind me one story of my childhood, when I got a role of Dorothy in a school play titled “The Wizard of Oz”. The Dorothy was a small girl, who was looking for a way home. During her journey, maybe as you know, she met a lion, scarecrow and Tin-men. They had some own specific problems, but at the end the Wizard of Oz helped them all. Dorothy to get back home needed a magic shoes and a special spell. She had to repeat three times formula: “There’s no place like home”. Because I’m quite sentimental, I think I understand this phrase much better, now.

New realisation of polish great poem “Dziady” by Radosław Rychcik

Are ”Dziady” telling “only” a polish story about polish history to polish spectators? And what happen if we mix John Kennedy, Merlin Monroe and Martin Luther King into a well-known plot? In his new realisation of polish great poem Radosław Rychcik is trying to answer this extraordinary questions by totally turning traditional order of reading the “Bible of polish literature”. In the theatre we get a Joker instead of Guślarz and a basketball field instead of cemetery chapel. We although get a challenging task of interpreting a whole. For me this realisation is an interesting experiment which is shows an universal aspects of a poem. If you haven’t watched it yet… do it as promptly as possible!

 

Why watching sports for relax isn't always a good idea?

Do you like watch sports on television for relax? It's such a big pleasure when we fall into a world of competition with keeping our fingers crossed. However, maybe it isn't a good idea to watch matches for relax when you're a fan of the polish handball team! I became convinced that after watching match between Poland and Spain at World Championship in Quatar.
I was learning all Sunday for my exam in history of literature when my father called my to relate first half. After that I couldn’t not take a break and watch a second. I believed that it helped me to clean my minds because I’ve become nervous about tomorrow exam. It was quite naïve idea, because the match was very dramatic. Finally, we won but after a crazy extra time. It was fantastic experience to watch that spectacle, but for sure there are a thousands of better ways to relax than support polish handball team…

”Theory of everything”- the power of love

I was waiting impatiently for the film that depicts the story of Stephen Hawking’s career and private life. I’m such a big fan of movies like that, which focus on “great brains” and show the power of love. I' ve still rememberd “Beautiful Mind”, another film with familiar plot, and because of that I had great expectations of “Theory of everything”. I watched it yesterday with my family and I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed. It wasn’t wasted time, but I’m under the impression that there was something unrealistic and false in this film. Maybe it’s because of too many pompous scenes. During the film I sometimes felt it like watching sequence of beautiful touching pictures, which didn’t make up an integral whole. Anyway, the film is worth seeing because of two main characters and actors, who create it in a great way.

Why "World like an oyster"?

I was looking for some English idiom that I could use as a title of my blog. I enjoyed "The world is your oyster" the most. The polish counterpart of it is "Świat stoi przed tobą otworem" or "Mieć świat u swoich stóp". When I found this idiom on some website there was a short explaination: "The world is your oyster" means that you're keeping it (oyster = world) in your hands. The oyster is completely vulnerable so you can do with it anything you want. It's optimistic and powerful phrase, but I was thinking about another aspects of it. Well, we're keeping it in our hands, but it's an OYSTER- awful slippy (it's easy to drop it) jellied creature. But it can be delicious, too. It's a brilliant metaphor of the world, isn't it?