So after about three hours there will be the final of Eurovision Song Contest. I can’t really say that there are very good songs performed. Most of the semi-final songs were terrible in my mind and even if the song was not so bad then performing was. As to finalists I seem to like 7 countries more than others. These are: Armenia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Russia and Switzerland. Though Russian’s accent disturbs me slightly. This time I’m not sad that our song didn’t make it to the final, it was not good and there were better songs in Estonian final to choose from. When I try to think about it, I can’t even remember the melody of Sandra’s song. However I remember the one of “Mr Right” sang by Meribel.
On the 13th of May I went to Viljandi with my friends and we were also celebrating one girl’s birthday since it was in the middle of exam period and she didn’t have time then. It turned out just great. We went to some shops and afterwards had a picnic at the ruins of the castle. The view at the lake from there is marvellous. I’d post a photo but it isn’t as good as to really be there so I think I won’t. In the evening we watched “Terrorism” written by brothers Presnyakovs and performed by Ugalas actors Hilje Murel, Carita Vaikjärv, Kadri Lepp, Aarne Soro, Meelis Rämmeld, Tanel Ingi, Martin Algus, Ott Aardam and Arvo Raimo. Since it was the last time they played it the director itself played an episodic role too :).
The story was about terrorism in everyday life, for example how parents treat their children badly because it’s the only way they know as their childhood was horrible. All that was very farcical. There was this story line about how man found his wife with another and then opened the gas not doing anything else himself. But there was this little boy pressing door bells just for fun and when he did it at this door there was a sparkle and everything exploded. Alltogether there were at least three people who died for stupid or silly reasons. And just four days after someone I knew died also. Not because of health or anything like that but because of someone’s stupid behaviour. So what may look not real and farcical might actually happen. No of course not the same way but for the same reason. Sad.
Exam time
On 22nd of April there was the first examination. We had to write three-pages (600-800 words) composition in our mother tongue on one of the ten topics. I almost fell short of time but in the end I finished on time. I think topics were good, so if I won’t get good results then I just didn’t write good enough.
After that there was this day when students in 12th grade dress as they were in the first class and do all those childish things they normally don’t. That was fun and we got notepads from those in 11th grade with all those cute and funny writings and stickies in them. It was an especial day since it was the last one in high school. No ordinary school days any more.
And then on 6th of May we were examined in math. The time for solving was quite tight but I believe it went well even though I wrote sin instead of tan once. If you know anything about math then you probably realise how stupid that is. But oh well, if they wanted me to write senseful text then they should have given more time too.
Next was English exam and may I say it was rather tricky! The writing part was ok, since we were expexting formal letter and a report, but the third exercise in listening part was not! It was read more quickly than the others and it was about well dressing. It took some time to actually realise what they were talking about since it was in no way connected with clothes. In reading part there was an article about toothy smile in art and I partly guessed many things. However it seems, it didn’t go very wrong at all. I suppose I was saved by my habit of reading English text on the web and being too lazy to use dictionary, so I mostly guess unknown words. But the exercise about university (don’t remember it’s name any more) and reference letters from teachers was… it quite freaked me out so I don’t remember most of my answers even though I think many of them are false. With this exam I’m clueless as to which results to expect.
But on Thursday there will be oral examination and I’m a bit worried that I won’t be able to say some usual words because they just sit on my tongue not willing to come out. You know how you sometimes want to say something but for some reason can’t? So, if there’s anyone out there willing to communicate in English tomorrow or the day after, let me know, ok? As they say, exercising only makes it better. Also that would be possible with either MSN or Skype.
Uus pilt kunsti all klaasitööde seas.
Disappointed
I booked the tickets in the center of third row. I did it about month before. I waited for weeks to see it. And just to go and find out that the play has been cancelled because tickets didn’t sell well enough.
And… to hear that actually there was no advertising whatsoever. How did they plan to sell tickets when there was not information about it? I don’t think they would have had problems selling it out completely with just a little advertising since it was additional play. If they sold it out once quickly enough to repeat the play in same place then how comes that there’s not people interested?
I’m so completely dissapointed. It was supposed to be really interesting evening and it turned out to be nothing. And not because of an illness of an actor like it sometimes happens but just because they didn’t bother to advertise.
Advertising can be boring nonsense and all other unpleasant things but it also INFORMS people. And that is not so unimportant.
Oh and lately I’m feeling like I’m attracting negative things just like antenna attracts thunder. I need some positiveness and so far I can’t see much of it. Since it can’t go much worse I’m assuming it will go better. The question is how long I have to wait for that to happen.