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