Finally, finally, finally! I am done with my exams. I am extremely tired. EXTREMELY. I have had some tough period in the last few weeks, especially because I was lagging behind with things that should be done - probably because of Model European Union - which was GREAT.

I still owe an (at least a brief) story about this prominent week. Well, let's see... We departed from Budapest (by car) on Sunday, 25 May, at 0.30 am (:o) and arrived to Strasbourg in the late afternoon. We met the organizers and other participants in the restaurant where we had dinner. From next day on we were "working" in the European Parliament (our plenary being the conference room of European Socialists). My role was to represent a Czech conservative member of the European Parliament, and although there were times when I got lost in the huge load of information (i.e. which amendment of us has passed, which hasn't, and generally in what phase the debate is), soon I found the necessary routine ;) We also had breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks in the European Parliament (the pastries were delicious! :)))). The evenings were even better :) I still remember the wonderful talks and crazy moments when we were visiting that nice bar in Kehl, Germany, having parties in La Java (or just hanging out without going any particular place) and discussed the agenda in an informal setting :) Wednesday was the last day we were acting like politicians/journalists/lobbyists - from Thursday we had workshops (like "Quo vadis EU-Russia?"), a meeting with a "real" MEP and some info sessions about AEGEE, JEF, Model European Union 2009 and Youth in Action Programme. I chose the last one and I must tell that I got really inspired to start a programme corresponding with European values and streghtening intercultural ties. I don't have an idea yet but I am sure that I want to be an active citizen in the future and MEU was kind of the first step to do that. :)

Thank you AEGEE and all the wonderful people I have met during this week.

P.S.: I have passed my English exam!!! So in a few weeks I will hold my Advanced level Business English certificate in my hands - it's a wonderful feeling :)

I am having an Advanced level Business English exam on Saturday, 3 May. (listening & writing... oral exam to be expected on 23 May)
I am frightened even of writing this down...
Dang. I trust in myself. I hope my English skills are not THAT bad and I have read generally the whole English coursebook, printed and read about 50 business letters from the net hoping I'll be able to remember those difficult expressions in them AND I have even written quite a few business letters, reports, summaries and only God knows what else... but I am still very afraid... is my language knowledge "professional" enough for passing the exams?...

Anyway, after the exam I am going to Balatonföldvár and will be back to Bp on Monday in the early morning.

...I just haven't had the mood to write anything. But don't think that nothing interesting happened to me. Actually, let's start with the first important announcement that some of you already know:

New layout, now with my favourite colour... It makes me feel good. Well, I was feeling awful yesterday. The situation was the following: I had a "VAPA" (Finance of Companies) exam today. It was second attempt after getting a 2 for my first try, and, you can understand I wanted to get a better grade. I knew I had nothing to lose (well, almost) and I know that today's attempt wasn't THAT bad, so maybe... I can get a better grade this time (?) But now I had only one day to refresh my memories and despite of studying non-stop between 10 am and 12 pm, I was terribly panicked and had hysterical break-outs... It wasn't that easy to deal with.

Only one exam left, Economic policy, my favourite subject through all this semester and this teacher helped me with my TézEUsz project. :) Let's hope for the best... :) If I do it well, let's say a 5, my mean will most probably be above 4.00.

But sometimes I am also feeling awful... because of my best friend who, for some reason, got the super-power and seems to get only 4 and 5 grades... and I know she's expecting a very high mean. I am a little bit jealous, I admit, and angry at myself - why can't I get such grades from most of the subjects? :/ But every time this comes to my mind I have to think of myself and my thoughts.

It seems I am definitely not that type of people who just sits down, studies and most importantly, focuses on the things to learn. I am driven by my desires and ideas, I learn very easily (the things I like) but my thoughts just fly away from the things I am not interested in, so - I think - for me it's about 5 times harder to stop my soaring mind. Well, they also fly away when I'm studying something I am really interested in - like EU studies - I had to remind myself every 5 minutes not to hum the EU Anthem or dream about being an European Commissioner in the future :D Well, when it comes to do some tasks that "fire me up" (is this the good word?) I am able to work with 150% efficiency.

And, don't forget... besides my studies, it seems I am learning 24/7... things that most of my friends do not know or they aren't even interested in them. I am browsing different sources on the net and of course Wikipedia. I just don't know which one is the better: be someone "normal" who simply does what he/she is supposed to do or have more inspiration, thoughts, passion etc. even if it isn't so good for your grades?

I just hope that my "handicap" will once be good for something... for example in the labour market I can use it nicely... but until that? :/

Okay, here I am after the Christmas holidays. I'm feeling well but I really have to start studying soon (having exams on 3 and 4 January, bleh). Going to a pre-New Year party tomorrow with my altar server friends which will be funny because on real New Year I won't go anywhere. :(
I guess some of my friends from college will come to Budapest for a party in the Castle District (hardly anyone is from Budapest) but honestly, I really hate those kind of parties they will have. (Spending time in a small room where there is loud music so you can't hear your friends, music styles that I hate, cigarette smoke so that you can't breathe, no place for you to sit down, lots of drunk people etc)
I'd prefer those events when you can talk a lot with your friends, play games or make other fun things. Once my friends (whom I am going to meet tomorrow) and I decided to visit someone of us at 10 pm and we stayed by her until 2 am, talking, watching South Park and drinking red wine :D
So, now I have to find out what kind of cookies I shall bring there tomorrow. And, then, bake. I'll see. :D

And to see how unlucky I was during the Christmas holidays, I must tell that my immune system got very weak in the past few weeks, I was sick, had temperature (from being so over-stressed) on 24th in the morning. And as a rule, my mouth is full of aphtas AGAIN, so I literally couldn't taste those cookies my mum baked for Christmas, because after the second bite, the inside of my mouth started to ache SO bad that I had to stop eating. And they don't want to heal, they are still there, now I am sipping a glass of vermouth I got from my grandmother, she said I got it to heal those wounds :) she is so sweet, isn't she? :)

Ah, now I have to start studying or make something smart instead of being here in front of my computer for hours. :/

Whoa, I'm done with all school things until Christmas, so now it's time to make something more fun. :) I'm about to start preparations (just in time, am I right? :D) but I suppose I will make all these things until Christmas Eve. For example, I can't wait for the day (it might be Friday) when my mum and I will go and choose the christmas tree. Oh, that smell... it resembles Christmas so much, and it feels so good after being kinda sick from the big plazas' and companies' marketing attacks...
In the last two weeks, let's see, I had Finance of companies (I did kinda bad in this - I didn't fail but I want to get a better grade, so I'll write this again in January), IT test (still no results), Business etiquette and protocol presentation (well, this was FUN :D), Business law exam (this was pretty easy :))) and this week Statistics and today Operation research tests. Blah.
I also have to mention that I slept about 4 hours in the night so I'm about to faint... Tomorrow I guess I will go to a morning mass held in my past school. I really love morning masses and this one is unique because they have guitar music there. For me it means so much more than "ordinary" church music played by organs. Nah. Then I'll go shopping, get the perfume I chose especially for myself (that will be one of my Christmas gifts) and after then, I will meet my friend and we'll take a walk in the Castle District! I hope we'll have some more snow tomorrow.
And I really hope that my envelopes sent on Monday will arrive to their destinations until Christmas...

I'm really having a hard time studying for Statistics exam which will be on Tuesday. I think I had a somewhat good result for Maths after practicing a lot for it, and the rest of the exams were also good. I'll have a better average this semester which makes me happy. :)
Only 3 exams left, Statistics as I said, plus Regional economy and Management.
For the evenings I'm totally K.O., so I try to relax when browsing the PC forums ;) I spend a lot of time in the Lithuanian community. Lol, I wonder if they read my livejournal, too.
My mum and granny are in Balatonföldvár. If I listened to my id (Freud psychoanalysis :D) I would tell you everything but I can't... yet :()

I can't really write more, now. But maybe I can take a breath on Tuesday.

A terrible weekend this will be. Next week I'll have 5 tests/exams and I have to make a recension of a Regional economy book... I will start this now, just let me write this entry. I practiced Macroeconomics today, but I still have many things to learn, Maths I haven't finished, then  Economics geography, Microsoft Access for IT and lots more... blah :S As an addition, I feel extremely lonely, but for about 2*5 minutes a day, then it's gone. Strange.
And I'm terribly lack of inspiration, I can't even write an entry that is longer than 10 lines... :( Ah well, I can write here about my successes ;) - yesterday I ran Cooper and I did it!! :) I was about to faint all the time yesterday, then I slept for about 3 hours and started to feel better for Eurovision. Magdi was great! I couldn't imagine she will be so successful until I saw this song performed live. Amazing. I can't wait to see the final on Saturday. Wishing her good luck.
But, back to reality. I have to study, study, study or at least make something clever this weekend.
Aldona, congratulations on your matura! :) After this hard period for you and me, I would love to chat with you about a few things in this summer :) So please tell me when it's over. :)

Forecast says a huge storm for today afternoon/evening.

And see, I finally managed to write more than 10 lines! :)

Tests and exams are very close. Party today. Currently not in the mood to go. But I'll go, anyway, my friends expect me there :(
The Balaton weekend was great, I even could learn and I enjoyed it! But it's over. Like everything. And I miss him... :'(

Okay, now I know all the results, and I managed to do all of them!!! Although I'm not so happy with the results, I go mostly 3-s for them, but I had extra difficult exams as well, so this is alright.
Going to Balaton on Friday! Yayayay. I can't wait. Last time we went there I was too busy to do anything - go for a walk, cook a meal or watch TV :( It will be cool, now, doing nothing. Until that, I have time to send all the postcrossing stuff to people I tagged (or who tagged me), put my fish to a smaller aquarium (I had pretty a lot of them long ago, but most died, and I don't have time to buy and own more)
I wrote an article about postcrossing to the school magazine, hoping it will attract many Hungarian postcrossers from BGF... um, what can I write more... I'm too tired now, forgive me :o

Alright, I seem to be back. Hopefully I had my last exam yesterday, I'm waiting for its results, which will be (unofficially) out on Monday. I'm hoping so strong that I did it... college exams seem to be harder than I expected. :S Until the results come out, I'm enjoying my free time :)

I also started to look forward to Eurovision 2007. (So please let me know if you are an ESC fan reading this!). You know, Hungary didn't participate in 2006, but we WILL be in Helsinki this year. BUT Hungarian ESC fans including me are starting to worry because no one knows how the singer/band will be chosen. Everyone thinks it will be NOX who goes there as they represented Hungary in 2005 and I think they were pretty good, but I don't mind if there was another singer chosen for the event.

I can't write more now. I just started an entry to let you know I didn't die. Yet.

Yes, I hate it. It was said we can take our exam dates from 6th November from midnight... I stayed up until midnight waiting for the system to allow taking exams. Midnight came... and Neptun froze. Great. :S