Being the youngest

Hello,
I'd like to tell something you about my family.

Some old italian movies

Ciao,
Today I'd like to present you some of italian movies that I've watched recently (for the University, but I liked them!

Netflix and chill #6 - 100 humans

Hello again!

I'm coming back to you with another film from Netflix - 100 humans

Getting fit before the wedding

Hi guys,

I'd like to tell you a little bit about my "getting fit plan" before my wedding.

At home with parents - being a child again!

Hi!

I'm living with my parents again. I haven't lived with them for 7 years. I have to say, it's a totally new experience!

Wedding durning pandemy

Hi!

So, as you already know, I'm planning a wedding. There are only 4 months left!

I was very preoccupied when I first heard about the pandemic. The only question was - WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH MY WEDDING?

Netflix and chill #5 - The big flower fight

Hello there! 

I just started a new TV series that I have to share with you! It's called THE BIG FLOWER FIGHT and I recommend it to everyone who is a plant lover just like me. :)

Netflix and chill #4 - Brilliant friend

Ciao,

Today I'd like to present to you another TV series that I lately enjoy watching - Brilliant friend.

Staying home

Ciao, 

As you all know we are forced now to stay at home. I obviously do it too, but I have some thoughts that I'd like to share with you. 

forza Italia

Ciao,

as many of you might have noticed, Italy is (in Europe) the most affected by coronavirus. My heart goes to all of them, especially that every day they (for now) is ever worse.
But today I'd like to share with you some positive sides of this - everyday singing at 6 p.m. form the balconies. They sing the italian hymn and some national songs.

Quarantine

Ciao, 

This post won't be long, I just wanted to ask you how are you in those tough days? Are you staying home like you supposed to? 

Green Eggs and Ham

Ciao,

This post it's not going to be long, because I'm coming to you only with a curiosity.

Lately, we were made to write an essay about the audiovisual translation. We were supposed to chose one film/Tv serial and find some interesting examples of translations.

I've chosen a TV serial "How I met your mother", because it's one of my favorites and I love watching it over and over again. I chose the episode 4 from 6th season called "The race" (probably). On the one scene Robin said "Is anyone else craving green eggs and ham?" what has absolutely no sense in polish or italian, but some traductors decided to leave it in its original version. So I started digging and I discovered it's an establishment to an popular book for children called "Green Eggs and Ham" written by Dr. Seuss and  it's about Sam-I-Am, trying to convince the narrator to try green eggs and ham. He spends most of the book, offering the unnamed character different locations and dining partners to try the delicacy. In the end the unnamed character relents and eats the green eggs and ham, and end up loving it. From that title came out a saying "green eggs and ham" as something you don't wanna try, but you're probably gonna love it.
So knowing it the scene has completely different meaning, so as the future traductors we should pay attention to all the details like this one.

Baci,
Oliwia

P.S. There a TV serial on Netflix based on that story - worth watching too. :)

How to plan a wedding and don't get crazy

Ciao,

So I'm getting married and I've been planning my wedding for like a year and a half now, but let's be honest, a girl is planning it since the day she was born.

I'm with my partner six and a half year now and at the moment of the wedding we'll be together 7 years. Considering that we are both 23 at the moment, it's almost 1/3 of our life - crazy no? I always had everything planned in my head. After bachelor's degree getting married and during fifth year of collage getting pregnant. I know that I'm not very modern type of girl, what can I say, it's just who I am. All the plans "ruined" when I was after second year at the university and realised that there was only one year left. I felt like I can afford that stress - defense of my master and a wedding at the same year. So I thought: Hey, one year later it will be 2020, it will be so easy to remember and count how many years we are together, it's perfect!

So here I am, 8 months left to my big day and what can I say, What advices I have for future brides?

- Start planning this wedding 2 years before! You can choose whoever you want to work with, all DJ's,  all ballroom have plenty of free dates. We started from the place we want to get married in and the music. There are two things you should start with and all the others services suit to this.

- Don't get too crazy. There's no possibility that everything is going to be perfect. Deal with it.

- Give your partner some assignment you don't really care about, but he can this way feel needed. let's face it - you probably are going yo do everything alone, but you know what? It's good, because you can get everything you want. I, for example, to make my fiance needed, assigned him to choose a car.

It's all for now, enjoy your big day and don't get to stressed.
Baci,
Oliwia

Netflix and chill #3 - How to get away with a murder

Ciao again,

I'm coming back to you with another TV serial that I really enjoy watching. It's called "How to get away with a murder" and it tells us a story about an university professor of law. I started watching it because my sister was continuously telling me about this show and she was recommending it constantly.

The main character is called Annalise Keating, a great layer, who every year choses a group of students for an internship in her office. By accident a man is being killed and Annalise and her students are involved in this.

I must say, I wasn't convinced at first about this show. But over time it got better and better. The only problem for me it that THERE IS ALWAYS A MORDER in the background. Like, literally in every season a new person is killed. I took me 4 season to deal with it and understand that this is what this show is really about. But on the other hand, the motifs and how the suspense is handled - it's why I can't stop watching it after one episode and I always end up watching three or four at once.

The other coin, my personal one, of this serial is that I started to watch in english again. I was watching in this way before my matura exam (the best way to learn english by watching TV shows in english, checked and proven ;) ) and now I turned back to this and I'm really happy about it!

Baci,
Oliwia

Zero waste life

Ciao,

As you can see I'm trying to make up for my absence, so I prepared another theme for you - I'm feeling like this is my day today. :)

I would like to share with you my experience about zero waste and living in harmony with nature. As we all know - our planet is dying, so we should do all we can to help saving it - even small actions matter, you should always remember that.

My zero waste experienced started more or less 10 months ago when our italian teacher makes us watch a movie about the pollution on the oceans and how out everyday actions affect our planet. I must say, it touched me deeply - I remember sitting there with a plastic bottle of water and feeling extremely guilty about it. Ever since there's nothing that I care more about that having always with my my reusable bottle. :)

What we can do to go zero waste in few steps?
1. Don't use plastic bottles, of course! You can almost over drink the tap water, if no, there are always glass bottled water in the shops.
2. Recycle your trashs. It's really important, so those products can be reuse.
3. Change your habits. Today's life used us chose easier solutions - our word is full of one time products like single use pad, tampon, diapers, paper towels or cutlery. It's not worth it, trust me, you can find many sustainable product that in the long term perspective will cost you less money.
4. Remember to take a reusable bag with you when you go shopping, not only to the grocery but also clothes shopping.
5. Shop in seconhands. Not only cloths, everyting. Use apps like olx or allegro where you can find just what you need while someone wants to get rid of it.

As you can see getting zero waste is not that hard. If we all go zero waste together we can really save our planet!

Baci,
Oliwia

Netflix and chill #2 - Glee

Ciao, 

Sorry for a long absence but my study life is not making it easy to be systematic. I promise I'll work with that. :)

So, today I would like to talk you about other show that I watch on Netflix. It's called "Glee" and even if it's not very smart or sophisticated it can teach us a very important lesson. The whole programme is taking place in american high-school and tells us a story about a group of teenagers that are not very popular and what connect them is that they are all joining a choir together. In their group is literally something "wrong" with anyone: we have a gay that everyone hates, an ex-popular cheerleader that got pregnant, a boy on the wheelchair and any others. What they have in common is that they all love to sing and that's what makes this show special - we have a concert in every episode. :) 

What I learned from that show is that everybody means something and even our little actions can hurt someone in that way that we could never suspect it would. It's shown how teenagers can be mean and hurt others even without knowing this. I think that everybody should be aware of damage they can cost just by being mean. Even if the show doesn't seem to be top-quality it's worth watching. 

Baci, 

Oliwia 

Montessori - method of teaching

Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity and collaborative play. Here children are the ones who make choices, while teachers offer activities proper to their age. Children work in groups and individually to discover knowledge of the word and to develop their maximum potential. 

Christmas tree

Hi,
Almost all of my friends already know that story, so I thought that I can share it with you too.

Few fact you need to know about me before I start that story:

• I'm a Christmas lover. If I could I would start celebrating it already at the beginning of November (I don't do it, only because my boyfriend is stopping me). 
• I rent a small studio flat here in Poznań, I spent Christmas with my family in Masuria. 
• I can't imagine not having a BIG christmas tree here in Poznań, because if I don't have one, I don't feel the magic of Christmas. 
• I don't live in the center of Poznań.
• I don't have a car. 

Netflix and chill

Ciao,

Today I'd like to bring up the topic of tv series.

I'm going to present you the list of some of my favourite tv shows and describe it a little, so you can know it better. 

At first, please tell me - do you like watching TV series? Because I love it! I could spend all day long doing nothing more than just watching them. My favourite ones are: The big bang theory, How I met your mother, The crown, Anne with an E and Full house. I consider you all watching at least one series of my list.

BLW #2 - tell me more

Ciao,

As you can see in the title, this week we are also going to talk about BLW.

At the beginning I'd like to indicate the differences between normal eating and BLW eating.
As normal eating we consider feeding babies in that way that we know from our homes - I mean here mixing food and feeding babies using spoons by parents. Mum or dad here decide when, what and how much the baby eats. This way of feeding may cost us a lot of stress - there can be the situations when our kid is not hungry and we are making him eat. It all comes from our good intentions - we want him to eat a lot, so he won't be hungry.
At the other hand as BLW eating we consider, as you may remember, the fact that the baby is the boss here and he decide when he is ready to eat and what he wants to eat.
But how we will know that he is ready to eat and what he wants to eat you may ask? We should forget about the rule that the baby starts eating mush at the age of 6 months. The baby starts eating whenever two conditions are met - the baby needs to be able to sit on his one and we need to see that he wants to eat - he will be stretching out his hands to what we eat, he will look into our food with love and he will be trying to bite our sandwich.