I'm seriously considering moving to PRofChina, as it seems less tyranising than Poland
I should be writing my japanese homework but I am too tired and annoyed to do so, so I may as well update my blog.
So, on Thursday there was a japanese day at my school.I didn't see much of it because my role was to prepare rice snacks. I saw some kendo and it was cool. The japanese techer says the festival turned out not very well, which I think is untrue. Sure, the german, russian and french parts were better, but each of the courses has dosens of students, and until now most of my class changed their third language to european ones, which apparently are easier to learn. There are only 10 people left in the japanese group.
The falling snow was a great replacement for cherry blossom. It was the last snow this year. Now there are some early flowers and trees started to spread leaves.
I started a bank account. Not sure what to do with it. It's empty.
"Madoka" will be released this summer in three bound volumes. First one will contain all of main storyline, second "A different story" (I particulary like this one as Mami was my favourite character and in this manga there's a focus on her relationship with Kyoko), the third "Oriko" storyline plus some additional stories. "Kazumi" storyline won't be released as it would have required a higher rating. I don't get this explaination. Maybe the publishers just find it too weird?
For more good news, there's an LGBT film festival going on in neighbouring town this week. Each day they show a marathon of films: "Mosquita y Mari", about two girls from different social backgrounds, "I am Nasrine", about contemporary persian siblings, "Orchids", a documentary about an australian intersexual person, "Wariazone", a documentary about indonesian third gender, "Howl", a documentary film about the famous trial of the titular poem. I am excited about this because Poland totally lacks and LGBT media: distributors occasionally publish famous films like "XXY" or "Brokeback Mountain" (during last two years they published only two: "Howl" and "Soundless Wind Chime", the second one in a heavily limited edition), and from time to time one can find a book with LGBT themes, but there's no specific market for such productions.
What's more, recently the aggression towards LGBT people is on the rise, and last week participant of a lecture regarding feminism, with LGBT topics, were attacked by a group of teenage boys. Even a woman moving with crutches was attacked. The arested boys were released without punishment, as they were all underage and no one was physically harmed. The same group of boys wanted to block the first day of the film festival I was talking about but managed only to destroy some rainbow flags. I'm seriously pissed off.
Also, a history professor, member of Polish Academy of Science, in an interview stated that the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves, basically by behaving differently and being smarter than most of their neighbours. A theatre director will be trialed for lese-majesty for acusing the current pope of collaboration with the former argentinian regime. Since the evidence id clear, she will spend next three years in jail unless the judge recognised how absurd it is. A member of parliament who called the election of president Obama "the end of white man's civilization" was never trialed.
Seriously, China starts to look like a really nice place to live...
So, on Thursday there was a japanese day at my school.I didn't see much of it because my role was to prepare rice snacks. I saw some kendo and it was cool. The japanese techer says the festival turned out not very well, which I think is untrue. Sure, the german, russian and french parts were better, but each of the courses has dosens of students, and until now most of my class changed their third language to european ones, which apparently are easier to learn. There are only 10 people left in the japanese group.
The falling snow was a great replacement for cherry blossom. It was the last snow this year. Now there are some early flowers and trees started to spread leaves.
I started a bank account. Not sure what to do with it. It's empty.
"Madoka" will be released this summer in three bound volumes. First one will contain all of main storyline, second "A different story" (I particulary like this one as Mami was my favourite character and in this manga there's a focus on her relationship with Kyoko), the third "Oriko" storyline plus some additional stories. "Kazumi" storyline won't be released as it would have required a higher rating. I don't get this explaination. Maybe the publishers just find it too weird?
For more good news, there's an LGBT film festival going on in neighbouring town this week. Each day they show a marathon of films: "Mosquita y Mari", about two girls from different social backgrounds, "I am Nasrine", about contemporary persian siblings, "Orchids", a documentary about an australian intersexual person, "Wariazone", a documentary about indonesian third gender, "Howl", a documentary film about the famous trial of the titular poem. I am excited about this because Poland totally lacks and LGBT media: distributors occasionally publish famous films like "XXY" or "Brokeback Mountain" (during last two years they published only two: "Howl" and "Soundless Wind Chime", the second one in a heavily limited edition), and from time to time one can find a book with LGBT themes, but there's no specific market for such productions.
What's more, recently the aggression towards LGBT people is on the rise, and last week participant of a lecture regarding feminism, with LGBT topics, were attacked by a group of teenage boys. Even a woman moving with crutches was attacked. The arested boys were released without punishment, as they were all underage and no one was physically harmed. The same group of boys wanted to block the first day of the film festival I was talking about but managed only to destroy some rainbow flags. I'm seriously pissed off.
Also, a history professor, member of Polish Academy of Science, in an interview stated that the Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves, basically by behaving differently and being smarter than most of their neighbours. A theatre director will be trialed for lese-majesty for acusing the current pope of collaboration with the former argentinian regime. Since the evidence id clear, she will spend next three years in jail unless the judge recognised how absurd it is. A member of parliament who called the election of president Obama "the end of white man's civilization" was never trialed.
Seriously, China starts to look like a really nice place to live...