Aristotle once asked an interesting question: 'What is a friend?"
Throughout centuries, various answers have been created.
According to him, it's a single soul dwelling in two bodies. When thinking about my friends and me, I couldn't find a better 'friendship' definition, if it is possible to define it at all.
There are a few people in my life, whom I can call that noble title. First of all, my three sisters and my mum- my best crew ever. I admire my dad's patience..
There's also my namesake, a friend from my school, with whom I spent 6 years having fun and enjoying ourselves instead of working hard.
There's Agnieszka, Gosia, Beata, Grzes and many more, whom I really love as you love your friends, who created my past and create my present. However, I'd like to tell you about two special people, special in a way which is hard to explain, but which you understand within a second if you have someone who is your best friend.
Let me introduce Agnieszka and Dorota, my soul mates, the remaining parts of my heart and mind.
Those are the ones whom I could trust with my life. Whenever we talk, 'you know what I mean, right?' is unnecessary, as it's alway 'yes, I have the same'. We think in the same way, we see things in the same way, we're upset and angry and happy and excited and irritated by the same things. We used to spend a lot of time together until I left Gdynia to study in Poznan. Now, whenever I pop in for a weekend, it's never enough and I really miss those old times. We're recently always in rush, but we just must meet only for one hour to catch up with the news, yet it always turs out to be 3, 4, 5 hours.. We try to spend holidays together to make it up, but again- it's never enough. However, when we talk after a few months of not seeing each other, it still seems as if it was yesterday.
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." F. J. Cummings














"Friendship needs no words..."
Dag Hammarskjold

No matter what our political views are, no matter which political parties we like and which we detest, that tragedy stroke us all.

Ironic, isn't it? Our President, the command of our armed forces, heads of important institutions, members of parliament and clergy, so many valuable people died while heading to Russia to commemorate the Polish victims of a World War II massacre, which targeted 'the flower of Poland' of 1940- our elites- intellectuals, leaders, officers, priests, politicians. Lech Walesa said that "this is so very much like Katyn, where our head was cut off". Some say Katyn is a cursed place, some- that there is some tiny door to Heaven. Surely, Katyn will remain in Polish history as a sign of tragedy and grief..

I've never been fond of Mr Kaczynski as our President, but, no matter if we agree with his policies or not, he was OUR President. I mourn him as the leader of our country, as our representative, as the head of Poland. All of the victims of the plane crash, although from various parties and of different views, were wise and important for Poland people and they left it with a huge empty space, just like it was 70 years before.

People keep saying that there are no divisions into parties today, that we are beyond all the disputes and views; we are united in grief.
It has been proved throughout the history that Poles, often spontaneously, unite in difficult times. But then, why do we need difficult time to unite, why is a tragedy necessary to calm the arguments?

I'm really sorry for a huge, immense delay with my posts.. I'll try to make up for it as there's so much I want to share..
First, may I introduce little me:


That small thing in the bag would be me:) And I still have that Mickey Mouse t-shirt my sister is wearing!


















I know it may seem strange (not that I was a normal child, because I surely wasn't) (judging from the videos I'd say I was a cranky girl with a mad look, talking to myself and living in my own little world), but putting toys and teddy bears all around me and pretending to be one of them was one of my favourite activities... I really believed that my mum wouldn't see me like that:D in the picture on the right I was about to begin the whole process.


I've heard people laughing at this picture, but I think it's cute :( Silly, but cute:P Although my head seems to take up most of the picture.. It was more or less like half of my body :|















And a few more. The teddy bear has accompanied me throughout my whole life:) In two other photos you can see my younger sister as well. Please, do not pay attention to my mad face where I'm feeding her, I meant well, honestly..

Having lots of spare time, one feels free to finally waste it on basically anything that is not compulsory, useful, constructive, necessary, with no remorse. Still remaining in the Christmas theme, here is the outcome of this possibility-
my friend's outstanding discoveries:





People surprise me.. it seems they had even more free time to create SUCH videos:D The latter is just perfect:> George Michael and his haircut <3

I must say that I would never consider writing a blog if it weren't for our IT course project. At the beginning, when the idea of the blog project was introduced to us, my reaction was more or less: "Whaaaaaat?!?!:/". I was rather upset as things like blogs require time, regularity, ideas, updating.. -- and I'm not good at all those together at the same time. But since it's a must.. well, what can one do? Being a student isn't only about having fun, right? Hm.. maybe it is.. I mean, if someone loves ALL the stuff we've been obliged to do throughout our TTC career I admire that, but it seems to be rather masochistic for me:D Anyway, I created a blog.. (after giving them my phone number to receive the confirmation code and to confirm that..erm..I don't know.. I exist? whatever..)(and, of course, it happened to me only!! nobody else had the tiniest problem with creating their blogs I guess.. yeah, right, bad luck from the very beginning)(not to mention that my first attempt to create my profile failed! favourite films, books, music- everything was deleted!)(ok, it was me who deleted that, but accidentally:()(girl+computers=don't ask) ANYWAY, I created a blog. And then.. then I found that it's actually fun to share some great videos, links, discoveries and all that. So that's what it's going to be about: you can expect from my blog sharing what I like, what I discover, what makes me laugh or what makes me think, what makes me happy or angry (prepare for some grumbling..) and whatever is worth mentioning. And I really wish to read your stuff, guys. I realized that it's nearly the end of being at TTC (hopefully)(I mean, I hope I'll pass the exams:P) and I've hardly spoken to some of you. And even if so, we often don't really know much about each other which is a pity for me. So I'm waiting for all the posts:D

Not to change the current theme:


:)

I still can't stop laughing:D Kasia had some free time, it seems:D And I just had to pop in to share that with the world:D
Just check the results:

Kasia- you're awesome! And Ola's face fits the action perfectly:D:D Łukasz- I'm sorry for you, that must have hurt:P
Well, if you still try to figure out how to wish your friends all the best not in that usual way in which you do that every year, you might have just found the solution. Creativity, ladies and gentlemen, creativity is all that matters here:D Abandon e-mails and text messages, go beyond:)

Finally!! I' ve been listening to this song by Chris Rea all the time lately and here I am now, driving home for Christmas:) It's all as it's supposed to be- numbers of lights are shining everywhere around, Poznań is wonderfully decorated (well, since the beginning of October probably, but we don't have to mention that, right?), and the weather, not to disappoint us, regaled us with much awaited fresh snow (later so much hated by me once I had to wait outside for like an hour or so..).
Between sleeping and.. erm.. sleeping at the 5am train to Gdynia, I enjoyed the world outside the window so so soo much:)

For all of you, especially those who will be driving home for Christmas:



~~And now time for not such a joyful part of the post:
Aaaaargh!! Not a nice beginninig of my blog!!!! I've spent like an hour writing some stuff about myself, my favourite music, films, and all that and I opened some link in the same tab instead of the new one!!!! ;( Drama, drama, drama:( My patience limit for today is over, so that will come next time..