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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Ότι και να λένε

Πριν αρχίσω, να πω λίγα πράγματα για τα μαθήματα στα ωδεία και πως λειτουργούν.
Αφού διαλέξεις το όργανο που θες να μάθεις (ας πούμε πιάνο), είναι προαιρετική η εκμάθηση κάποιων γνώσεων μουσικής (π.χ. ονόματα νοτών, οι "σχέσεις" ας πούμε που έχουν μεταξύ τους οι νότες κτλ...). Αυτά τα μαθήματα χωρίζονται σε 2 κατηγορίες, θεωρεία που είναι τα 3 πρώτα χρόνια και η αρμονία, πάλι 3 χρόνια. Στην θεωρία μαθαίνεις τα βασικά και στην αρμονία μαθαίνεις πως να συνθέσεις κομμάτια. 
Όμως, όταν αρχίζεις την αρμονία, πρέπει υποχρεωτικά να παρακολουθήσεις και άλλα  3 μαθήματα: ιστορία της μουσικής (π.χ. Πότε βρέθηκαν τα πρώτα μουσικά όργανα, πότε γεννήθηκε ο τάδε συνθέτης κτλ), σολφέζ (ας πούμε πως να τραγουδάς σωστά) και χορωδία. Οπότε, μαζί με το όργανο, πρέπει να πηγαίνεις στο ωδείο 5 ώρες την εβδομάδα (1 ώρα το μάθημα). 
Μα έχει κι άλλο.
Στον δεύτερο χρόνο της αρμονίας, είναι υποχρεωτικό να διδάσκεις σε κάποιο παιδί (για να μάθεις να διδάσκεις μουσική, εφόσον υποτίθεται πως αυτό θες να κάνεις στη ζωή σου.)και μορφολογία (δεν έχω ιδέα τι είναι πάντως προσθέτει ακόμα 1 ώρα). Αυτά συνεχίζονται και τον τρίτο χρόνο της αρμονίας. Οπότε συνολικά 7 ώρες την εβδομάδα τις περνάς στο ωδείο.
Ας περάσουμε σε εμένα τώρα. 
Άρχισα πιάνο γιατί μου άρεσε. Και ακόμα μου αρέσει. Με ρώτησαν αν θέλω να παρακολουθήσω αρμονία είπα "γιατί όχι;". Το χρόνο που άρχισα αρμονία στην αρχή μου φάνηκαν ωραία τα μαθήματα αλλά μετά ήταν εφιάλτης. Στα μισά μαθήματα οι καθηγητές δεν μπορούσαν να ελέγξουν τα παιδιά, συνειδητοποίησα πως η αρμονία δεν με ενδιέφερε. 
Τελικά μόνο το πιάνο μου άρεσε. 
Α, να μην ξεχάσω, στα ωδεία τα παιδιά δίνουν 2 φορές το χρόνο εξετάσεις οπότε έχουμε και επιπλέον άγχος  (γιατί αγχώνομαι ΠΑΡΑ πολύ)
Εφόσον δεν μπορούσα να σταματήσω στη μέση της χρονιάς, αποφάσισα να σταματήσω φέτος. (Όλα αυτά έγιναν πέρσι). Άσε που θα πήγαινα και τρίτη γυμνασίου που είναι πολύ σημαντική τάξη και θέλω έτσι και αλλιώς να ανεβάσω το βαθμό μου. Και έχω και τα αγγλικά που  δίνω proficency και τα γαλλικά που δίνω Β1.
Αποφάσισα να κάνω μαθήματα πιάνου στο σπίτι και να πατάω στο ωδείο μόνο για εξετάσεις.
Και τώρα, έρχονται κάποιοι άνθρωποι που αγαπώ και μου λένε "Γιατί να σταματήσεις; Σε αυτούς τους καιρούς χρειάζονται πολλά πτυχία!". "Θα σου είναι πολύ χρήσιμα και δεν το έχεις καταλάβει!" "Πολλοί σταμάτησαν και μετάνιωσαν!"
Προσπαθώ να πους αγνοήσω, αλλά δεν μπορώ. Ποτέ δεν μπορούσα να πω "όχι" και οι άλλοι με έπειθαν πολύ εύκολα. 

Αλλά κάτι που έγινε πριν από λίγους μήνες με έκανε να αναθεωρήσω, φαντάζομαι.
Κατάλαβα πως τα μαθήματα με έκαναν δυστυχισμένη. Ξέρω πως ακούγεται υπερβολικό, αλλά μπείτε στη θέση μου: αναγκαζόμουν να είμαι σε ένα μέρος 5 ώρες την εβδομάδα-χώρια τα επιπλέον μαθήματα- και αυτό επηρέαζε την καθημερινότητά μου.
Σιχαινόμουν τα μαθήματα και δεν το είχα καταλάβει.
Γι' αυτό τώρα δεν θα αφήσω να περάσει το δικό τους. 
Δεν υπάρχει καμία περίπτωση να  συνεχίσω.
Καμία περίπτωση.
Ότι και να λένε.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

13+1 reasons about why Harry Potter is better than Twillight



1. Sparkly vampires are just sad and pathetic.
2. None of the Harry Potter characters stare at people while they sleep.
3. A Twilight vampire may have special powers, but they can only have one each. Wizards can have all of the abilities vampires have, like: Legilimency, Occlumency, Divination, and more: Metamorphmagus, Parseltongue, Animagus, etc.
4. For the Twilight series, five minutes after you meet someone, you are so in love with them that you can't live without them. Harry Potter characters do fall in love, but in much more realistic ways. And they don't lie around obsessing over it, they have more important things on their minds.
5. Voldemort is way cooler than the Volturi. (Who, for those of you who don't know, are a group of really old vamps who prevent other vamps from telling humans about their existence. No vampire would ever do this anyway, so the Volturi are useless)
6. The Twilight books have no humor.
7. Twilight only has sequels because Stephanie Meyer realized how popular it was. J.K. Rowling had always planned to write a series, even if it wasn't popular.
8. Did anyone offer to make Twilight a musical? No? Didn't think so.
9. No one dies in Twilight, except for a few people they didn't know. Every good series includes a death that has a great impact on the main character. Several beloved characters died in Harry Potter, and this helped the plot to develop.
10. Twilight does not include any exciting villains. Harry Potter has many.
11. Twilight is sexist. Bella's ideas never work, she cannot do anything for herself and is constantly being saved by men. Now think of the girls in Harry Potter. Are Hermione, Ginny, and Luna constantly playing clueless damsels in distress? No.
12. None of the characters in Harry Potter needs to be unnaturally attractive in order to be loved by their significant other. But do you think Bella would have looked twice at Edward if he was ugly?
13. Harry Potter has all kinds of fans: old, young, male, female, etc. But Twlight's only fans are preteen and teenage girls, and a few middle-aged women. And many members of these groups (including myself) don't even like Twilight.
14. The Twilight movies have bad special effects.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Catcher in the Rye

Even if I don't know exactly what the book is about, here are some quotes from it!:)

Quotations from
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger, 1945


What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by.  I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them.  I hate that.  I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it.  If you don't, you feel even worse.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1


I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1


It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1


People always think something's all true.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2


People never notice anything.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2


I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.  It's awful.  If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.  It's terrible.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3


When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around.  I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something.  Only, I don't go.  I'm too worried to go.  I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6


All morons hate it when you call them a moron.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6


In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9


It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9


Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.  You never know where the hell you are.  I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.  Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass.  I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9


I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.  That's the thing about girls.  Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.  Girls.  Jesus Christ.  They can drive you crazy.  They really can.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10


There isn't any night club in the world you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk.  Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10


It's no fun to be yellow.  Maybe I'm not all yellow.  I don't know.  I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13


I mean most girls are so dumb and all.  After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains.  You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13


Goddam money.  It always ends up making you blue as hell.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 15


If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?  Nobody.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17


"Take most people, they're crazy about cars.  They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer.  I don't even like old cars.  I mean they don't even interest me.  I'd rather have a goddam horse.  A horse is at least human, for God's sake."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield


Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.  If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it.  I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 18


Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up.  I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.  Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery.  People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.  Who wants flowers when you're dead?  Nobody.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 20


It's funny.  All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 21


Holden:  "You know that song, 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."
Phoebe:  "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!... It's a poem.  By Robert Burns."
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22


"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.  Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.  And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.  That's all I do all day.  I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.  I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield


"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall.  But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college.  Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'  Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer.  I just don't know."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini


"This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind.  The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom.  He just keeps falling and falling.  The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with.  Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with.  So they gave up looking.  They gave it up before they ever really even got started."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini


"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.  You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know.  Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.  Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.  You'll learn from them - if you want to.  Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.  It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.  And it isn't education.  It's history.  It's poetry."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini


Don't ever tell anybody anything.  If you do, you start missing everybody.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26


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