Hope you're enjoying your presents ;)



Sorry for being absent for such a long time, been busy for a change, there are lots of things to tell.
And I will force myself to lift my butt and actually write it all xD

I've never had much respect for librarians. What do they do, I thought, sit all day, read books, chat with each other and rant about the ungrateful library users. At least that was the impression I got from my school librarian.
And than I started volunteering in the library.
Not that I'm the volunteering type, shame on me, we just have this project at school - we have to give 60 hours to the city by volunteering somewhere. And not that our library is big, it's just that it's become free recently and people started taking 8 books at a time. Now, guess who has to take them back to their places.

I'm back to our exam routine, starting yesterday. Hope that the rest of my exams will go better than that one, though. Made a hell of a silly mistake, lost a lot of points and some of my teacher's respect.

Anyway, time to say bye bye to personal life and say hello to 538 BC, Eliahu the Prophet and Hebrew grammar. I might get converted and wouldn't even notice it.

Stolen from spaltung</div>
YOUR ROCK STAR NAME:(first pet, current car)
Topchik NoCar

YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe)
Cherry Allstar

YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME/ Detective Name: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Purple Tiger

YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name)
Kolve

SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav alcoholic drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Black XL

NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Naum Alexander

STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Cinnamon Ferrero Roche

TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city)
Aliza Amsterdam

SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Autumn Rose

CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now)
Apricot Sock

HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Cornflakes LetitbeSpruce

FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Vein

ROCK STAR NAME: (current/previous pets name, current street name)
Cassie Levy

PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on?)
Topchik Nili [how sexy XDD ]

Finally, I have a break and there won't be any exams in the next two weeks. Seriously, this exams just destroyed any remains left of my personal life. At least the marks were good. I was very surprised, though, to discover that this year I get 10 points added to my mark just because I live here for less than 10 years [9 and half, now who's lucky? xD]. I, personally, still think that it's some mistake, but who I am, a humble new immigrant, to resist free 10 points?


We had a trip to the Kineret lake yesterday. It's the main source of water in here, and it dries out quickly each year, and you'd think that we'd be taken there to hear some lecture about saving water. Surprisingly, we were taken to a graveyard nearby. Now, children, don't ever try to understand the minds of those who plan all those field trips, it's probably a very dark and messy place.
We were actually told about the love affairs of a man that was buried there and were shown a painting on one of the tombstones, which hinted that a man was killed by an Israeli sect of satan. Creepy.

At least we didn't go there on Halloween.


Dr Who related:
What?! Dumping Rose to a parallel world?! Replacing her with some.. Martha?! Who the hell is Martha anyway?
The ep. about Shakespeare was so funny. All those connections to Rowling and the '57 academics have just punched the air' were hilarious.
And haven't I mentioned this yet? TENNANT ROCKS!
I want a Tardis shaped closet.


(crazypandabear )

So how was your Halloween? :)

I, personally, spent it in Guild Wars, cause it was the only place that was decorated for Halloween that I could reach. I had fun with the Mad King, though. He gave me trick-or-treat bags that contained alcohol and candies xD
Oh, and my mom cut and roasted Jack [it was a coincidence! She just accidentally bought pumpkin!].

Anyway, the Doctor Who fandom, you've got a new fangirl recently. I was just switching channels when I stopped on the one where Doctor Who was shown, and luckily, it was the first episode. I got drawn into the plot and liked it a lot.The whole time machine thing is so cool, and I'm not even starting to talk about the Doctor [who's awesome, I had to say].
It's a pity, though, that Eccleston isn't going on to the second season. I've become quite fond of him. Well, hope that Tennant will be as good as he is.

Sociology class yesterday touched an interesting subject. We talked about prejudice, something that I've been thinking about for a while. I don't think there's a person who's free of it completely. Me neither. I do realize though, that it may be quite a setback. As I enjoy finding new interesting aspects of the personalities of different people, I still think certain things about people with whom I've never even spoken. But than, there's a reason to that, isn't there? How do I distinguish between my common sense about people and just ungrounded prejudice?

But it's so cool to find something common with a person that you didn't even think of getting closer to.
It's just that I've been thinking lately about my present relationships with both new and old people. Reconsidering my friends' personalities and just basically having too much free time to think, which doesn't always make good to me.

Another thing I was wondering about is moving to another place. Actually what made me seriously think about this was my mother's question about whether I'd move to another country at the end of this year if we could. I said 'yes' immediately, but I've been thinking about it since. I've been quite restless in this place, I know. There are both negative and positive things in here, but I'm not sure if it's that or just an inside condition which won't change just because of moving to another place.

I have an important question for you guys:
have you [or someone you know] moved to another country before finishing high school? How did it affect your future? What do you think about? Is it worthy, or it's better to finish school in a better known language?

It's been quite a long time since I was affected that much by a book. As you might have guessed, I finished Fool's Fate, the last book in the Tawny man trilogy, and the last of the 9 books in the series. I took the first one from the library at the beginning of the summer and finished all of them only yesterday.
See, after spending so much time with the characters, it feels odd not to read more about them, as strange as it sounds. Maybe it's part of being a good writer, making people feel like this. And Robin Hobb is most certainly IS a good writer.

( Spoilers lie ahead )
 

The effect haven't passed yet, and I'm still a bit sad, but still, I had such a good time reading these books and I would recommend them to everyone, especially those who like fantasy.

I've just came to tell that life's good.
I really should make a list of all the things that make me happy sometimes.
That's just for now..

 Singing along. Fall out boy's new singles. 90% I'm going to France this summer.

Talking to someone ;). The tangerine season has started. It's the middle of autumn. 

The weather actually starts to get cooler. There are 10 days of holidays ahead.

French is going quite well.There's Kickbox class today. The fool. 

I don't have much things to worry about, that's the main thing :) 





Feel good, guys :)

I won't read spoilers about the end of the Tawny man trilogy!
I won't. I won't.  I won't.

*takes a glimpse*

Oh, no. Oh, no. Please don't tell me the end is sad. Does the Fool live? He and Fitz are together? Is he a man after all? What about Nettle? What about the dragon? What about Chade? How's Dutiful? And Ketrikken? And.. and..

Please, don't let the end to be disappointing, these series were so good so far. Please, please, please.


p.s
Sorry that there weren't any normal posts lately, school is a free time killer. And the free time that survives is taken by the book series from above ^^

p.p.s
You could just as well name me a readingmaniac, mom. It's not a lot longer than my actual name anyway.

I have this annual autumn thing. Some idea strikes me [or kicks me, that would be more accurate to say], I get all excited and start learning something new [driving everyone crazy at the same time]. And it keeps like that, say for 2 months in the extraordinary cases. Well, drawing actually is an exception, it's a thing I've started each autumn for the last 3 years. Didn't get any exceptional results, though. I wonder why.

So, this year it's French.
Not my first attempt, as a matter of fact. I had one [!] French lesson, after which my teacher disappeared, didn't return any calls and I've never seen her again ever since.
However, I've learned how to say J'mappelle Veronica and J'habite a Israel. Le soleil and le chat sum up my wide French vocabulary.
My friend's French family was impressed, though. I don't know whether it's my personal charm or my knowledge of the French language, but I was invited to stay in France this summer. For a month! A whole month near Paris, surrounded by French talking people. I will actually get to visit Disneyland [because that's the reason people go to France, they lied you about the Eiffel tower].
This issue still needs some serious discussing with my mom, though. Thanks God she had to leave me home alone for 3 weeks this year, I can play the "I'm responsible" card now.


But that's not the main issue of the day. The more important thing is..

It was actually raining today!! Twice! Can you believe that?
It lasted for something like 2 minutes each time, but still. And those un-excited weird friends of mine were laughing at me, while I was skipping happily, raising my hands to catch the drops and laughing somewhat crazily.

And there's actually one more reason to be happy: October's gonna be a one big holiday. All the hebrew holidays are in October this year, and what does it mean? Time to be lazy again xD My free time is back alive and kickin'!


Have a good week, guys. And enjoy your October as well :) [I will enjoy more, though. Mwahaha]. 

"You touch these tired eyes of mine
And map my face out line by line
And somehow growing old feels fine
I listen close for I'm not smart
You wrap you thoughts in works of art
And they're hanging on the walls of my heart

I may not have the softest touch
I may not say the words as such
And though I may not look like much
I'm yours
And though my edges may be rough
And never feel I'm quite enough
It may not seem like very much
But I'm yours"
(The Script - I'm yours)

"Sometimes we don't learn
From our mistakes
Sometimes we've no
Choice but to walk
Away, away
Tried to break my heart
Well it's broke
Tried to hang me high
Well I'm choked
Wanted rain on me
Well I'm soaked
Soaked to the skin

Now I'm alive
And my ghosts are gone
I've she'd all the pain
I've been holding on
The cure for a heart
Is to move along, is to move along
So move along
What don't kill a heart
Only makes it strong"
(The Script - The end is where I begin)

Apparently my body has it's own idea of autmn. Nevermind that it's still summer here, it already adjusts itself to the new season. So, what can be a better beginning of autmn than catching a cold? No idea how I got that considering the high temperature. So.. *sneeze* here I am, drinking gallons of green tea with lemons and scaring everyone with my sneezing.

So, what am I doing on this wonderful weekend [besides sleeping half of the day], you might ask. Well, playing Spore of course. Because what else can you do on Friday night, right? Don't know if you heard about it, but Spore is a new game from the creators of The Sims [another addiction from the past]. Only in this game you have to create a creature and develop it, till it gets to control the universe. Sounds like a long process, and it is, but creating this things is so fun.

Have a look, join the addiction.

( Because fun Friday nights are a myth anyway )

It's kinda surprising that I can call the first week of school quite.. fun. It was nice to meet the old friends [and some new ones], less nice to meet the teachers, though. Our bible teacher has a special talent: she can make everyone fall asleep. And it's good, nothing bad about that, as long as she's using it on her own kids, not on us, in a place where there are no comfortable surfaces to sleep on. On the other hand, her voice is so high, so you better use earplugs.
Sociology teacher passed the "seems ok" stage and is now kinda cool ["You may go out to the restroom during the lesson. You may as well go and talk on the phone, I won't know that you're doing it anyway"]. What surprised me the most is that I really enjoyed computer class. I wouldn't believe, but the 4 hours on Friday passed really fast. I can use C# now, muahaha.

Well, I'm gonna go find some powers and go to kickbox class. Hope that you guys have some more interesting new that I have.


p.s
I'm totally gonna visit China when I can. Just take a look - http://community.livejournal.com/foturist_ru/43333.html#cutid1.

First day at school was quite fine. I'm in a new class this year, but we have classes with people from other classes too, unlike the past three years when we studied with one class all the time. That's good, more opportunities to get knowing new people, as I wanted.
We have a new headmistress, that's why all the weird new rules, I guess. Only four colors allowed for school uniforms and standing when the teacher comes in the class [where are we? In USSR?] are among this rules.
My schedule is kinda crazy, I have free hours between lessons, something that I don't need at all. Come on, I just want to get out of there quicker, not spend two hours doing nothing and than having 3 computers classes. And tomorrow 3 comp. classes straight in the morning.
Looks like I'm gonna be a computer geek this year :) Well, we rule anyway.
Sociology was interesting, though. The teacher seems ok [well, he says that he cancels his lessons sometimes. How can I not love a teacher that does that?].  So, this year will be better, hopefully.


If I had a to-do-before I get all old and grumpy list, I'd be able to cross out two things. I've spent more than an hour in a book store and I've been on a blind date [not mine, though. I don't do that. And thanks God I don't]. Now, don't get the wrong impression and think that this two are not connected. The story's not complicated nor original. I ended up being a third wheel on a date and was dumped to the nearest bookstore [not that I complain, right? I've always wanted to do that. Third wheeling is fun as well as spending huge amounts of time in bookstores].
The date was horrible, though. And when I saw the boy coming after my friend I looked behind him to see if the one she met is someone else.

However, the good thing that came out of all this, is that I managed to find a good discount [50% off on the second book] on the books that I wanted, so I ended up with the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb and American Gods by Neil Gaiman :) Who said bad blind dates don't give profit?

Wanted to write something smart, but I feel that ny brain was melted by the heat. So, just a random quote from the yoga trainer from yesterday.

- You know, this position helps women get pregnant. You know how many women I helped to get pregnant? No! You didn't get me right!

But I'll start from the small ones. Like changing the profile [check it out, I need to know how it looks on other computers] and having a new haircut. As soon as my budget grows, I'll move to changing the room and than I'll think about changing the world to a better place.

Somehow, I had some energy yesterday, so I decided to go to spin class [where I go maybe twice a month,  to remind the trainer that I exist]. Apparently the over energy mixed up my brain and I ended up coming to the gym an hour before class. Seriously, I was even surprised that the class was cancelled. Anyway, I realized that I was mistaken only half through my regular training. But there was some energy left [and its effect on my brain too] cause I eventually went to the class. After an hour of training. And ended up completely wasted.
But, hey, at least the trainer said I did well.

The library is closed for 2 weeks, and I think I'm the only book addict that cares about it. However, as I don't have much to read, can you, guys, recommend me some good movies? Your favorites, maybe.
Oh and I know the Dark Knight is totally worth watching, but they don't show it here for some reason. I'll have to wait for the DVD, so don't add salt to the wound.

This made me smile today :) The disney addict in me, at least.

Oh, the damn insomnia again.
And the want to eat too. Yeah, in the middle of the night X__X

Do you realize that less than a month left till the end of the holidays? I'm not saying the end of the summer, cause the summer here is far beyond three months.If the global warming stuff's gonna keep going on like that, there will be no winter at all here. In that case I consider moving to Siberia, which will become a popular site for tourists, who will come to see the remains of the snow. Palms will become the next Christmas trees and snow will be something that exists only in grandma's stories about the past.

But why am I being so pessimistic? Lets focus on the present. There are still 20 days of freedom left.

Anyway, I was at the beach to day with some friends. We played a game that reminds tennis, but with wooden rackets. I discovered [without any surprise of course. Because me and sport games.. let's say, hate each other.] that I tend to miss the ball in a countless amount of funny ways. Well, at least the people surrounding me had fun watching me.

One of my friends brought a watermelon [a responsible one, humph], but it was windy today, so.. have you ever had a watermelon, covered with sand? You should try, the sand adds some nice flavor. Salty, but nice. And I haven't even mentioned the way it feels when you chew it yet.

Running in the water. Chasing each other. Splash water on each other, on strangers, by mistake. Being all wet without even getting into the sea. That's what sums up the day pretty much :)

The place where we were, before a whole bunch of people came and ruined the view.

Sometimes I wish I had a dog, just to have an excuse to go out by myself without explaining anything. Apartments suck.
I have this time period when I realize again that I'm sick of the place I live in now, and that I would go almost anywhere, just to make a change.
I don't think there's one person in the family who managed to avoid my nagging about how I'd like to go somewhere, preferably abroad.

God, I'll be rich when I grow up.

So, mum finally got sick of me and took me to Caesarea. It's an ancient place with many Roman antiques with it, that were eventually occupied by greedy restaurant owners. It was nice, especially since I haven't been there for two years maybe, so it's the most new place I can get.
We had a ridiculously expensive ice cream, took a walk in a dark alley, were a little bit washed by the local sprinklers, but it was nice.

Snow White is doing dishes again cause
What else can you do
With seven itty-bitty men?
Sends them to bed and calls up a friend
Says will you meet me at midnight?
The tall blonde lets out a cry of despair says
Would have cut it myself if i knew men could climb hair
I'll have to find another tower somewhere and keep away from the windows


Had a really odd dream today. I had a huge motorbike and tried to ride it. I walked with it in the streets, pretty aware of the fact that I should ride it, not walk by it. And than a guy tried to buy it from me in a ridiculous price. I tried to ride on it, gained speed, but the guy tried to stop me, I realized I was going to crash.. and than I woke up.

What does it mean, unused potential? Always had difficulty with dream interpretation.

Anyway, the dream came as an intro to another day full of nothing but laziness. Not quite what I expected from the summer holidays, but what are my options? Anyway, trying to enjoy the last month of summer. People say next year's gonna be hard, so I'll try to make the most of this month. That probably means I'll have to find other things to do than reading all day. Not that I have many options. The heat here doesn't allow me come out of the house most of the day. People start living after the sunset. Surviving is only possible with a </font></font>ventilator in a meter distance from me or at the beach. Oh, and the bathroom of course. The problem is, the cold water is a rarity nowadays.