Today I would like to share something real, something about friendship you might come across over the internet, friendship which is worth it. 

Well,  I met her almost three years ago here on MY EC. I joined this website to improve my English skills since I was about to take Cambridge exam. I entered chatroom and noticed there somebody who totally differed fromothers, absolutely crazy and freaky girl. Even though I didn't know her, I was sure she is my "blood type" and we will be friends one day.

My sixth sense didn't betray me because it didn't take so much time and we became closer. In one month we were best friends and we shared everything about our lives. I have to admit I hardly met in my life people I consider soulmates as she is and that's why we call each other twins.

She knows everything about me, about my family, my hobbies, I sent her pictures from trips or pictures of some special dishes I cooked, for Xmas I sent her gifts and vice versa I got to know many personal things about her, her life-style, movies she recommended me, about her job, recipes of traditional dishes (even tried her borsc - soup), she sent me gifts for Xmas too, postcard from holidays etc. Of course, we talked on Skype, saw each other many times and we chat daily on watsapp. In short I can say it is awesome to have friend like this because you come to know many new interesting things, you use English and maybe even unknowlingly improve your skills.

Some people disdain friendship over the internet but I can talk from own experience and I would never call our friendship virtual - she is so real to me. I can rely on her and she is anytime ready to help me and support me. I was so lucky to meet such great friend here and I hope we will soon meet in real. Actually, it looks like next year she will stay in my country so I am looking forward to spend some memorable, crazy days with her!!

Thank you for being in my life, Helen, I wish I could send you golden ribbon with diamonds to appreciate your friendship but still it wouldn't be enough.

Thank you EC for giving me such special and awesome friend!!!

R H O D E S

After those little bit exhausting trips we decided to spend the time on the beach and to have fun there with the friends we made and who stayed in the same hotel. We met there two couples from our country and started going together on the beach or we visited the center of  Rhodes City - the capital city of the Rhodes Island. In fact, it took us only about 20 minutes on foot to get there.

Once we decided to have some fun in the local WATER PARK in FALIRAKI situated only few kilometers far away from our place. Honestly, I have never been before to any Waterpark, so it was incredible, exciting experience full of adrenalin. However, I found out one negative thing in me there - I was coward to try all the attractions and the most dangerous one I even didn´t have in the pictures!  In short my instinct of self-preservation is maybe too strong and I simply didn´t want to come back home in the coffin!

To visit everything in the city RHODES can take you many days. OLD TOWN of RHODES, I can say that it is like city situated in another one city – historical pearl!!! This city used to be in the past under the control of many different countries that is why you can notice here many periods it went through like Roman period, Othoman period or Italian period etc. So many places are worth visiting that I will mention only the most important ones like old WALLS around all the Old town, awesome PALACE of the GRAND MASTERS, the STREET OF THE KNIGHTS, the fountains, parks, and you can also witnessed that many cultures met there in the past since you find in one place christian church, mosque or synagogue. The old historical streets with its shops has its memorable atmosphere and you can buy whatever you think of - fashionable clothes, local drink, artificial historical weapons, ceramics or even fur coat. Actually, only one glimpse at fur coat made me totally sweat so I wondered who was able to come back from holidays with fur coat :-D

I have to point out that harbour of the city RHODES is unique because there used to stand in the past COLOSSUS of RHODES - one of the WONDERS of the WORLD. What was it? The gigantic ancient statue of God HELIOS (God of the Sun) almost as big as the Liberty Statue and all made of bronze. The Colossus of Rhodes used to protect the harbour only for 60 years because later it was destroyed by the earthquake.

When you see the picture, you can notice two pillars - nowadays on each of them stand one of the deer – male and female – it is the symbol of the island since they are the unique species that live only there. In the past those two pillars were bases and on them the legs of Collossos of Rhodes  stood. We can literally say that the ships coming to the harbour were sailing under the big straddled legs (like a gate) of the HELIOS statue. You can see it in one of the pictures bellow to have some idea what I am talking about.

Only three days before we were about to leave the island, we had experienced earthquake with the intensity 6,3 Richter scale luckily somewhere deep in the sea but not so far away from us. In the morning woke me up something weird. I was sleepy and didn´t know what was going on but bed was moving from side to side with me. I felt like baby in the cradle and thought I was still dreaming but suddenly I realized it – it was the reality!!! Since I have never experienced in my life earthquake, it took me few seconds to get to know what was going on. I immeditately woke up my husband and was totally confused what to do. Chandelier was moving, pictures hanged on the walls were moving, the cosmetics in the bathroom were  falling down on the floor and I didnt know what to do. Then I remembered that in the movies, they always stay in the door because of the construction of the buildings so I ordered my husband to do it :-D We both were standing there like this and were waiting. I felt like I was waiting for something and didn´t know what is going to happen – if the end of the earthquake or something tragic. Believe it or not but these seconds were neverending and I felt as if one second lasted for one hour. Such experience gave me a lot because I came to know how dangerous the nature can be and how easily it can kill us. Unfortunately, one woman on the island died but on the other hand even though the intensity wasn´t so low - there weren´t more dead people or injured ones. Seriously it was like a miracle!

The same day we took the trip to the city called LINDOS. People acted as if nothing happened, everything was in order so why not. I was little bit afraid of the fact that some historical buildings might be demaged or might fall down but nobody was like this so I decided to take the risk. We went by bus to Lindos which was about 50 km far away. Lindos is old historical city with the ruins of the castle and beautiful white traditional houses. I liked it a lot but have never experienced such hot weather. It was around 45 degrees on the sun, no wind and I drank one and half liter of water during one hour. We were able to stay there only for about two hours, I am not overacting but the hot weather was totally unbearable. Anyway, to visit the Acropolis with the Temple of Athena, was memorable experience and even though I felt like I would die while climbing up, it was worth it!!!

At the end of this blog I would like to mention that I hope one day I will come back there and will be even able to visit all these places again.. maybe crazy but this place really got underneath my skin. Rhodes Island and Crete are so far the best places I have ever visited. We tasted Greek cuisine and it is so delicious that I would like to hire one local chef to prepare everyday something original for me!!! To drink their wine and to eat olives, while I am siting on the veranda of my apartment situated on the beach… ohhh that´s my dream!!! :-D

Bye-bye RHODES !!!

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R H O D E S

Lately I read here on MY EC interesting nice blogs about places some members like Noaspls or Tree have visited and I have to admit that it inspired me to write a blog about one of the islands I fell in love with.

Let me interduce you one of the GREEK ISLANDS called  R H O D E S, which is situated very close to Turkish seacoast – just around 18 km far away.

I visited this island with my husband some years ago but all my experiences are still locked inside of me and I would like to share them here with you because Rhodes Island with its historical magic and picturesque landscape for sure essentially left in my heart awesome unforgotable memories.

Luckily there is direct flight from my city to island Rhodes, so to overcome the distance of 1.600 km took us about three hours. When I got out of the plane, immediately strong wind literally smacked my face up, which was very friendly and warm welcome of this island. Seriously, I had to get on with it and it took me few days to get used to for such strong wind we faced daily there. Actually, this wind betrayed me a lot because thanks to it I underestimated during the first day on the beach sun which shines very intensively there and got burned so that I looked like a pink pig.

Unfortunatelly, my burnt skin didn´t allow me to fry my body on the beach for another two days so we decided to travel and to visit some interesting places around the island. As you know Greece is called Cradle of the civilization and everywhere you come across something what proves it. I love history and I also love traveling so yupeeeee let´s go for a trip!!

We rented a car and decided to travel as much as possible because island itself isn´t one of the biggest. First of all we visited old ancient ruins of the city called KAMIROS. Would you believe that this city was here even 2000 years BC? In the ruins of Kamiros city that was twice destroyed by earthquake you can find old church, spa, amfiteater etc.

The castles are without any doubt connected with the history so our another destination was castle KASTELOS with its awesome and picturesque view. In such moment you realize how beautiful some sceneries can be and how beautiful life on this Earth can be. Btw this castle was built in such place becasue of the Osman´s attacks and they say it is one of the most well-preserved castles on the island.

Enough of the castles? NOOOO we will never have enough and that´s why we also visited the castle called MONOLITHOS. Awesome castle which was built in 15th century on the big rock and has never been conquered. One really doubt how they were able to build it up there. This castle is not so far away from the sea, anyway it is interesting that from the sea you can´t see it – good strategy to build it like this.

Another day we decided to continue and to visit the southern part of the island. The fist place we visited was PRASONISI – it is the most southern part where two seas  Aegean and Mediterranean) meet but when we were there they didn´t meet, which was better for taking the pictures. In the past Hippies lived there and especially people who like windsurfing or kitesurfing love it there becasue of the strong wind and  big waves. I was just watching the sea, people enjoying surfing since the wind was little bit strong and I felt so relaxed, thinking of nothing, 100% peace occupied my mind at that time – I felt like one of those hippies :-D

To come back like this was impossible without spending some time in the SPA KALITEA – beautiful place with its bay, restaurant, bar, music and nice beach. We enjoyed relaxing there, even though in the end we had to run away because the storm decided to finish our lazy stay on the beach.

Hope you liked it and I will try to come up with the second part as soon as possible. If you are interested in how we survived the earthquake there, keep on waiting ;-)

To be continued...

Nothing in this world can substitute blood, blood has been circulating inside of us since we were born and till the last breath warms our body. To describe here more about blood from the medicine´s view would be work for a doctor, my task is to show you in this blog something interesting, informative and maybe you will even learn new things.

As we all know without blood nobody can survive.

So first of all I would like to appeal to you for thinking about donating blood if possible because to live with the awareness that I was able to help somebody in need, that my blood saved somebody's life, this is what life is about, to help each other, to feel useful and last but not least to be proud of own acts.

Let me share now some interesting facts about blood I have come across:

Every newborn baby has about one cup of blood in its body.

How many mosquitos would have to completely drain blood of your body? 1.200.000 !!!  

In one adult human body there are 100.000 miles (160.934 km) of blood vessels!

One pint (1,9 litres) of donated blood can save 3 lives.

As for the blood types I found out after checking many websites that the most common blood type is 0 or A, then there are these with B blood type and at the end of the charts are people with AB blood type (ehm like me). Actually, I am talking in general because it might little bit differ from country to country.

By the way do u know that in Japan they believe that blood type determine personality? If u know your blood type, check the text bellow, maybe u will get to know something new about yourself or maybe you will just find it entertaining:

If you want to learn more, check this website, which was my source as for the personality and blood types: http://www.in5d.com/blood-type-reveals-personality.html

Blood Type 0

Type O’s are outgoing, and very social. They are initiators, although they don’t always finish what they start. Creative and popular, they love to be the center of attention and appear very self confident.

Blood Type A

While outwardly calm, they have such high standards (perfectionists) that they tend to be balls of nerves on the inside. Type A’s are the most artistic of the blood groups. They can be shy, are conscientious, trustworthy, and sensitive.

Blood Type B

Goal oriented and strong minded, type B’s will start a task and continue it until completed, and completed well. Type B’s are the individualists of the blood group categories and find their own way in life.

Blood Type AB

Type AB’s are the split personalities of the blood groups. They can be both outgoing and shy, confident and timid. While responsible, too much responsibility will cause a problem. They are trustworthy and like to help others.

Anyway, why not to learn something new. Here I am coming with some English idioms about blood, so please have a look:

Blood and guts

If there is shown too much violence and blood. For instance in the news or you watch some action movie or horror movie full of brutality.

Example: The movie was all blood and guts, I was unable to watch it till the end.

Blood, sweat and tears

If something is hard work for us and we will have to sacrify a lot, suffer or even go through some pain, we can use this idiom.

Example: To build up our house, it took us blood, sweat and tears.

Blue blood

These who were born with blue blood are usually people whose ancestors belong to aristocratic or royal families.

Example: Prince George is for sure blue-blooded as a new member of British royal family.

To have someone´s blood on hands

Usually killer can have blood on hands so it is somebody who murdered people or was responsible for some crime related to the violence. We can say this even indirectly if that one person didn´t kill anybody but thanks to their orders people died.  

Example: People lately debate if president Obama has blood on hands or not.

New blood

New people, members who appear somewhere, means we can call them in general new blood.

Example: I have noticed new blood here around on EC lately.

Thank you for reading my blog and hope that tonight won´t visit you any vampire to suck your blood, so better prevent yourself from them and eat a lot of garlic before you fall asleep :-D

♥ I wish to all my EC friends Happy Friendship day ♥

Thank you for being in my life and for making it more interesting and colourful.

Today is International Friendship Day and I think it is good idea to celebrate such day because sometimes our life is too hectic that we tend to forget how much our friends mean to us.

At least once a year we should slow down and remember our friends, no matter if they are virtual or from our real life. We should dedicate at least few minutes to them, to appreciate them and to realize how happy we are to be surrounded by people who love us, who won´t ever let us down and who are here literally 24/7 for us.

Life is not only about taking but also about giving, so please don´t forget about it and show your friends how much they are important for you and that you are anytime able to do your best for them, in short open your heart and show your love without any hesitation.

!!!Everybody in this world deserves to be loved by their friends!!!

"Home sweet home!" This saying I find so true and if somebody uses it, on my mind is automatically my hometown, the city I can call without hesitation my heart issue.

I am proud of being Czech, I love my country and whenever I hear our anthem, it gives me nice inner feeling, which is for sure one of the proves of my patriotism. Sincerely, I dislike if people talk bad about my country and I am anytime and anywhere ready to fight for it and persuade them how wrong they are ( even though sometimes they might be right :D ). Another kind of patriotism wakes up inside of me every year during the ice-hockey world championship. I consider myself crazy fan and support our team as if it was a matter of death and life.

I come from the third biggest Czech city, I come from Ostrava where I was born, I grew up  and so far just with one exception I have lived only here. My hometown is industrial city, actually it is situated in the region of mines, heavy industry etc., in short one would maybe run away from here but that's why I love it. It has its special magic and I am pretty sure that only Ostravian people are aware of it.

Once I have left my lovely hometown for longer period and I have to admit I struggled a lot to settle down, to get little bit of inner peace in my lonely soul. I moved to Prague (the capital city) to get better job and of course better money as well. Honestly, I am thankful for this experience because one year in the city distant 400km from my hometown gave me a lot. I proved myself I am independant but on the other hand I felt homesick surounded just by few friends, moreover I was able to visit my family only once a month. Anyway, such experience opened my eyes, showed me where I belong to, where my roots are.

Everytime I come back from somewhere and see the first chimneys of my beloved black Ostrava, I feel some kind of excitement and happiness. As if the city was able to greet me, as if it was saying: "Welcome back, you were being missed here a lot!"

What about other countries? I am not against living somewhere abroad but for sure my only one condition is to be there with my family. Since I love traveling and visited as a tourist about ten European countries, I can say Greece is the country I somehow consider the closest to my heart. I like their cuisine, their history, local climate and friendly Greek people. I can imagine myself as a retired woman living in one of its islands but hard to say because who knows, maybe my hometown would call me one day back.

Women´s Beauty

It is a hidden dream of almost every girl or woman to look gorgeously, to be at least once in a lifetime called beautiful, to see in someone´s eyes that she succeeded or to listen to praising words how awesome she looks like. Anyway, not all of us were born to be a model with the beautiful face, not all of us have the perfect figure and for sure not all of us have skills to represent ourselves in noble style, that´s why the goal to look beautiful might be for some of us hard work, for others it can become obsession and for some it might even end up with  death. Anyway, let´s start from the beginning.

When I look back, I am happy for childhood I enjoyed as a kid. We didn´t need to dye our hair at the age of 14, we didn´t use mascara at the age of 12, simply we were the kids with no need to pretend we are already adults. Nowadays, you can see little babies who are dressed as the adults, you can easily buy make up set for little princess, some babies have polished nails and twelve years old girls wear sexy clothes and if you see their face hidden under the thick layer of make up, you might get scared. Do kids really need this all?

In some countries are common contests like Child Beauty Peageants or Mini Miss where people vote for the most beautiful little girls. Once I have listed some magazine and have come across article with the pictures of Beauty Peageants in the USA. Honestly, I didn´t believe my eyes to see there the picture of maybe eight years old girl with thick layer of make-up, professional hair-style, who desperately longed for looking like adult woman. She even gave faces and poses as if she was some sexy model, which I found totally disgusting. Something like this didn´t give me impression like it is beauty idol but scary creature. I wonder what is this good for and on my mind is just the only one explanation. Maybe some kind of the satisfaction for unsuccessful mothers. Mothers, who decided to heal their complex – to make their little daughters famous since they failed or have never been so ambitious. I personally would lock up such parents in the madhouse. What about the demaged skin, demaged hair, all these artificial smiles, lost childhood, changed character etc. Poor these girls whose childhood is simply wasted thanks to some silly parent´s dreams.

Little girls grow up and as we all know, puberty is the period of life we care too much about our appearance, want to give the best impression, we want to rock. So many young girls suffer from anorexia, bulimia just to follow the trend to be slim and because they are unable to recognize when it is enough, when it is high time to stop starving, they end up in the hospital, some of them even die. If only one day would be the ideal of the beauty not skeleton but normal healthy looking woman, then so many lives could have been saved. Why am I talking about it? Some weeks ago I saw on the internet picture of twenty years old girl from Ukraine and her weight was 20kg. Seriously, she looked like skeleton and such picture made me without any doubt scared. How one can go so further like this to consider their body perfect since it is  just heap of bones. I know it is mental dissease and it is all in her brain but it is also fault of mass media. First of all they feed us with editted pictures of the models on the cover of the magazines and I am pretty sure not all, especially immature people are able to understand that it is mostly hard work of editors to create such cover with the perfect body. Secondly, how come they present such skeleton girl almost as a symbol because it was even written there that since she is idol for many young girls, she gives advice over the internet how to get such „great“ figure. So sad that nobody can´t stop her because in my opinion doctors should take care of her instead of media who are simply hungry for something interesting, who prefer posting the pictures of the girl which is slowly dying in front us.

It is the truth that „beauty doesn´t last forever, with time it fades.“ When women get older, can recognize the first symptoms of aging, there are some of them who has the problem to admit that they won´t stay young forever. Such women you can sometimes recognize easily. At the age of fifty they  wear clothes as if they were twenty, no matter if their figure is good enough or not. Another category are women who spend many on the plastic surgeries to look more attractive. So many women are able to do everything to get their youth back, actually it is all one big business. Unfortunately, even here we can find these who aren´t able to control themselves, who don´t know when to stop. Some women are so obsessed with their beauty that they are able to go through many plastic surgeries and they aren´t still satisfied with the results of it. In this case I think it might be another mental dissease but since they pay, why doctors should care if they are mentally healthy or not. I would say that women should accept the reality that nobody stay young forever and better enjoy their life, spend money on more important and enjoyable activities than on bigger lips or face without any wrinkle.

If I sum it up, I think that everything is about our own attitude. If we - girls, women are confident enough, if we are able to think rationally, find some silly trends useless, then we can survive without any problems in this jungle. Unluckilly there are some of us with low self - esteem, who underestimate themselves and blindly go to the extremes, which might cost them their own life. I just wish such people were surounded by more carrying relatives or friends who would be able to show them the reality, who would  be able to save their lives.

So dear girls and women, don´t pay so much attention to your appearance, better focus on who is hidden inside of you. Be happy if you have smart, loving partner, who prefers more your inner beauty instead of beautiful face or great figure.

A GAME WITH OWN FATE

Part Two 

Meanwhile he was watching the movie, he heard some noise outside. Of course, he knew he couldn´t open the door and go there, since his death might be waiting for him with open arms. On the other hand he was since the early childhood very curious and again his curiousity was trying to beat him. This time he had to be more careful, he realized that it is a matter of life now to open the door and to go outside. He won´t do it at any cost. He sat down on the sofa and decided to continue in watching the movie. Anyway, it wasn´t easy at all to control himself, to stay calm, to be aware of the reality that today´s day can be his last one. What to do? How to survive it? He was doubting if he is strong enough to face it all alone. In such situation nobody is able to enjoy the movie, so he gave it up and turned the tv off since his mood was off too. The game has started and his role was the most important, his task was – to survive.

Everythinig is about the attitude and he knew it very well, actually he was that one in the company who supported other colleagues, who gave them the energy, who motivated them. Now he needed somebody to help him, to encourage him, just to tell him: "Don´t worry, you will survive this day and your life will go on as if nothing has ever happened before." Such person was being missed now in his apartment and he didn´t know if he should drag somebody in this game. He was too responsible to ask  for help his mom, friends, colleagus. His mind was telling him that one should face such situation alone because we all are in this world alone. We were born alone, so we have to be able to take care of ourselves when we are in the danger. He caught himself saying out of loud: "Yes, you will make it, you are strong enough, you won´t die, you are the best and you will prove it!!!" His self-confidence was back. Suddenly, he was even doubting if it wasn´t just some silly dream and he is now scared at home because of some fictive fantasy. He realized how powerful mind can be, how it can control us.

His phone started ringing and on the display was written: Mom. Oh noooo, what to do now, should he answer it or not? After few seconds he said: "Heloooo mom, how are you?" She didn´t recognize anything suspecious from his voice but as a typhoon immediately informed him that his apartment might be soon in the danger because there is a big fire in the neighbourhood and people are being evacuated. She heard it on the radio just few seconds ago. She asked him to come back as soon as possible from work, to  pack the most important stuff and to come to her. Actually, she didn´t have a clue he is at home, sitting just few metres far away from this big fire. He didn´t believe his ears!!! Fire??? He just answered: "Ok, I am immediately there!"  and cut the call. So many emotions again flooded his body. He didn´t know if this game is real or not, if something will  happen or not. He just knew he had to survive and had to do his best to wake up tomorrow. The smell of ash was now everywhere, he came to know mom wasn´t telling him any lies. He packed some stuff and was thinking how to escape from here, how to escape his own fate. There wasn´t so much time to think about it for hours and his point was that he didn´t see himself dead in the flames, so maybe it is just some coinscidence and everything will be ok soon. He opened the door and saw the firemen running everywhere on the street. He didn´t care what had happened there, he was extremely focused just on his plan. To rescue himself, he must get into the car, then everything will be ok. He crossed the street succsefully and opened the door of his car. He sat down and almost didn´t believe it - nothing happened. He was laughing in his luxurious car like insane. All the stress was gone, he started the car and soon he was in the part of the city where his mom lived. He felt so free and happy. He got out of the car, passed some dirty boy and was walking on the street. The boy came back to him and asked him for some money. Firstly he was about to ignore him but since his mood was better, he just answered: "Well, you have no idea what all happened to me today, so I am really not in a mood to give away money now." Such arrogant attitude made the boy who was drug addicted absolutely mad. The boy was holding the knife he was hiding in his pocket and unpredictably started atacking on him as if he was absolutely freaky. The boy hit his belly, heart and suddenly in some minutes … he was laying there dead on the street. His soul was leaving his body and he found out that one can´t change their fate since it has been sealed, no matter how hard they try…

 THE END

A GAME WITH OWN FATE 

Part One

It was cold midnight and his apartment was almost lost in the darkness. Something woke him up but he was unable to identify what it was. When he opened eyes, he saw in the corner of the bedroom white shining mysterious person. Suddenly only feelings like insecurity and curiousity occupied his mind. It was female and she gave him impression she was an angel, anyway he couldn´t deny he felt scared of her and didn´t know what to expect. She was giving him her hand but he somehow knew he couldn´t trust her, he couldn´t follow her. She gently whispered: "Come with me, I will show you your future." 

He was confused and didn´t know how to react, was unable to say a word since he was still so shocked. Does he really want to know eagerly what will happen in his life? Won´t it influence him if he knows the future? So many questions were running through his mind. She was still standing there and waiting. She knew very well that he was sceptical, she was aware of the fact that it wouldn´t be easy with him and that´s why she whispered: "You have the unique chance and I promise you, that you won´t ever regret."

He was sweating and heard himself saying: "No, thank you but I don´t want to know my future, it would ruin my life." When he finished this sentence he was still doubting if he didn´t make mistake. His curiousity was trying to win over his security.

She didn´t give up easily, actually it was her task to persuade him, to leave this untidy room with him and since she was very ambitious, she decided to change the way she talked to him. "Well, if you see the mistakes you will make in the future, you can avoid them and your life will be more enjoyable, not so painful. You will simply enjoy it better with knowing how to react in dangerous situations, how to prevent yourself from being disappointed. Don´t you think that it is worth it?" she asked with sweet tone in her voice.

He was totally lost, he knew that it was high time to give up this inner fight, curiousity won. He just answered: "Ok, I will go with you, show me my future, show me what´s written in my fate." She gave him smile because now she felt satifisfied and was sure his life is literally in her hands.

He came to her, gave her hand and all of a sudden the whole room was changed. The magic of touching each other hands worked. They found themselves in the same room but totally empty. Four white walls, no windows, just one big screen. She said: "Ok, let me show you, what your today´s day will be about." By pointing finger at the screen she turned it on and suddenly he saw himself there. He woke up, took shower, ate his breakfast, he didn´t believe his eyes. He watched sequences of his life like a movie on this big screen somewhere in the fictive world. Suddenly he got shocked. He saw clearly something what almost stopped beating his heart. He saw himself laying dead on the street.

He screamed: "Oh my gosh, what‘s this????!!!!" She was shocked too and immediately turned the screen off. He sat down on the floor and felt like he is totally trapped, his all body was shivering. Today in some hours he will die, he just saw his own dead body!!! He gave her desperate face and asked her to turn the screen on again, to check all the details. She denied because in this case she would break the rules, rules that were created by God himself. She just curtly told him: "Well, I can assure you that our system sometimes failed and I can´t promise if this what we saw here would really happen." From the tone of her voice was obvious that she didn´t care, she just used some empty phrases, she learned by heart. He was still extremely shocked, didn´t know what to do, the only one thought that popped up in his mind was that he must urgently get out from here. White walls just irritated his sad black soul. He ordered: "Immediately, take me away. I don´t want to spend any single second here!!" In few seconds somehow he was back in his bed. He felt so tired and hardly remembered what he had experienced. He fell asleep  within few seconds.

In the morning he woke up, took shower, ate breakfast, just he followed his daily ritual and… after a few minutes passed, he remembered what had happened the last night. He realized it all. Today he is supposed to die. Why he didn´t feel scared? Well, since he knew it, he can avoid it and will do everything so that nothing like this would happen. He will simply escape it, he will change his fate.

He decided it would be better to stay at home so he made a call and asked his boss for day off. What to do now? He took a quick glance at his collection of movies and caught himself smiling. Watching movies he hasn´t seen for ages will make him feel good and relaxed. Now nothing can surprise him at all.

To be continued…

This summer I spent ten days by the lake Balaton in Hungary. It was great holiday with little bit tropical weather but we all enjoyed it a lot. Balaton is not any small pond, it is the biggest lake in the central Europe with its length 70 km and width 24 km. If u want to go around the whole lake it would take you I guess few days since it is 200 km.

Hungary isn´t so far away from the Czech republic, even though the language is totally different and pronounciation doesn´t give me any logical sense :D The point is that if you finally looked up a word you need, you realize that you are unable to read it. Hungarian language is similar to Finnish or Estonian language.

To overcome the distance of 530 km with two little kids by car took us six and half hour. We had to stop twice to let the kids play, walk, eat. When we arrived to the hotel, we were excited! Great big garden, playground for the kids, outdoor pool etc. Anyway, my excitement was gone when I came to know that receptionist - old uncle - can speak only Hungarian language and German, no English at all :D Honestly, my German isn´t anything extraordinary, I just can understand but as for speaking it is tragedy. When I somehow told him we arrived and we have paid nine nights, showed him contract with the travel agency, he checked it in the computer and from his face I saw he was confused, something was wrong. Anyway, he told us to sit down and to wait. My nervosity was being increased second by second. After ten minutes of neverending waiting, he finally appeared with some keys and told us, there is no free room in the hotel. We all were staring at him like he must be kidding us. He paused and added that  there are also apartments that belong to the hotel. We went there and I was like wooow! Instead of one room in the hotel we got apartment with kitchen and living roomd on the ground floor and two bedrooms on the first floor, plus balcony. Uncle told us that if we like it, we can stay here for all ten days, if not - tomorrow he is able to prepare for us hotel room. Well, I think we would be silly not to stay in the apartment. Later we went for dinner to the restaurant which was situated in the complex of the hotel. Guess what? I was scared if I am able to order some food there :D So many ideas crossed my mind – like to download German dictionary etc. Luckily, there was one waiter who spoke English. Sincerely, it made me calm becasue we were able to order dish without any problems. We tried Hungarian cuisine and I have to admit everything we ate there was delicious. We all gained :D

The very next day we found great beach for the kids with shallow water in the city Balatonlelle. One was able to walk there more than 300 metres and water level reached their waist :D It was cool to see the people so far away from the beach in the water like this. Anyway, it became little bit cloudy and later started raining. We thought it would be just shower but we were wrong !!! It turned to heavy rain, lightening all around and suddenly I saw thanks to strong wind big wave!!! We took kids, only the most important stuff and tent (it is sun tent to make shadow for the kids) we left there. People started yelling, kids were crying, all were running out of  there. In such situation you can see how nature can easily play with us. It was the worst storm I have ever experienced. Everything wet, we had to buy two towels to cover the kids with it. When husband went for the tent back there he told us that the beach looked like after some battle. Mess was everywhere since all just ran away.

Luckily following days passed without any tragic affair! We visited many interesting places like so called capital city of Balaton lake – Siofok, which is very popular especially among young people. We saw many of them just hanging around and at nights they enjoyed the parties – for family not twice smart choice to live near the clubs there. The city itself is very nice and I liked it. Very long promenade, I would say around one km, nice parks where we found some shadow because it was around 40 degrees, many flowers everywhere and many attractions for the tourists. Another city we visited was Keszthely – there was beautiful castle and museum of railway models in historical city (my son is in love with trains), swan walking on the street and nice garder of the roses. Not so far away from our place we visited ruins of the castle Kerekivar. Another interesteing place was peninsula Tihany with Benedict Abbey and Hermit´s houses, volcano Badacsony with awesome watchtower, picturesque view, wineyards and also Balatonföldvar – another beautiful city by the lake. We bought there some typical Hungarian products like white wine from area of the volcano, special spicy salami, lavender soap and body wash I bought for mom. Actually, my husband told me that if  I used it once at home he will kill me because it is very intensively aromatic. Hope my dad won´t hate me when my mom open it :-D

I have to admit that I really enjoyed this holiday, no cooking, active resting and the atmosphere of the lake gave us feeling as if we were by the sea. One day I will for sure come back there. So … bye,  bye lake Balaton, I will miss you!!! 

View from the volcano

Happy kids on the beach

Keszthely - castle and garden

Siofok - symbol of the city - Water tower

Siofok - view from the tower

My art picture m proud of

The rest I will upload later here in my album.. thanx for reading it ;-)

Hello my friends and enemies,

well, even somebody like me needs some rest, so excuse me within upcoming ten days :-)

I will be enjoying my holiday by the lake called Balaton in Hungary with my family. Will dare not to cook, just to relax, to go for the trips and to lay on the beach! Actually, guess with two little kids it is sci-fi to lay on the beach but I will do my best :-D

So don´t cry for me, I am still alive and hope when I am back, I will share with you the best moments I experienced there, including the pictures ;-)

                 Luzzi                                                          

M Y   B E D

Bed is my dreamy kingdom, only there I feel like the queen,

all my soft pillows, dreams about the places I have never been.

It gives me comfort when I feel so exhausted, almost dead,

me, myself hidden under the white blanket, the whole night ahead.

I have already given to my pillows more than one tear,

my bitter disappointments, scary nightmares, weird fear.

Bed is the witness of my many thoughts running through my mind,

it can´t talk, it keeps my secrets, remembers dreams I am unable to find.

To disappear with the half-read book, to find my shelter there,

or to lay down, stare at the ceiling and to think if life is fair.

Bed is my reliable companion I meet reguraly every night,

I love to sleep in it, to dream until the first morning light.

When I wake up, I can´t leave it, it is my sweet duty to stay,

to enjoy my laziness and to welcome another awesome day.

People like comparing the genders, it is very debatable topic. For instance - whose life is worse, if men are so busy at work, all the time tired or if women are stuck in the kitchen, must do only their duties and take care of the kids. I was thinking about it and would like to show you in this blog describtion of one day with the views, which crossed my freaky mind. Just one thing - remember I am from Europe because in my opinion such issue might differ throughout the cultures we live in.

Let´s wake up, guys!!! New day is here!!!

Man just takes shower – actually if he feels like doing it, brushes teeth, does something within few minutes with his hair, gets dressed and? He is ready to leave for work.

What about woman? Men like to complain: "Ohhhhhhh my wife has again occupied the bathroom for one hour!" But why? There is very simply answer - women do care about their look plus honestly  they have more work to do with their bodies :-D Does man need to shave his legs? As if women loved doing it but it is of course something impossible to tolerate so almost all women must follow the trendy style and make themselves busy with such things. Does man need to wear make up? Apart from Konchita, noooo. To put make up, to blow dry hair so that hairstyle would look good - it all takes time, dear men. So I think that it is obvious now why women spend more time in the bathroom.

Let´s take breakfast. Man can eat whatever he wants to. Fried eggs with ham, hamburgers, donuts etc. Actually if he becomes fatter, friends will even praise him for looking more masculinely with bigger belly. In short fat man is tolerated by society without any problems.

Woman? Ohhhhh, if woman is fat, did you notice that people around start gossiping her? She is in the center of the attention. Anyway, almost all women must control themselves what they eat if they want to look good. Of course not at the age of 20 but later when metabolism gets slower, one feels like gaining even from breathing the air! Soooo unfair!!

High time to start working. Actually, if woman isn´t jobless. In my opinion to find a job for  man is easier than for woman. Firstly she is without any experience, then when she has the kids, employer is afraid of the fact that she would be at home still with them when they are sick and in the end when woman is finally older without almost any commitments, they are able to say: "Sorry, madam, you are too old. We need younger people." That´s someting common here in my country plus another interesting thing is that women who work at the same position as men, do the same work – they don´t get the same salary!!!  Men´s sallary is of course higher. Another proof how fair life can be. When both are done at work, usually woman goes to the supermarket to buy something for dinner and finally she is able to go back home.

We are back from work and if we have the kids, we must take care of them, do the homeworks with them etc. Luckily there are men who are able to do this but not all show the interest because they aren´t patient enough which might be one of their excuses. As if woman was the only one parent, plus I don´t count time when she was pregnant, felt sick, gained, had other problems and then gave a birth, that I would say is the most painful experience ever. Do men need to go through something like this?

Anyway, woman should move to the kitchen!! Family is hungry! Man just rests on the sofa because his day was soooooo exhausting and waits for dinner. As if day of woman was just full of fun and entertainment and she didn´t want at least to sit down and stare at nowhere :-D

When the family is done with dinner, kids go to bed, parents can start arguing about what channel they will watch  :-D Or man goes to the pub to have fun with his friends and desperate woman turns on tv and better wathes some romantic series to dream of better life :-D

So whose life isn´t easy at all? Will be glad to read all your comments ;-)

What a strange situation. Boss asked every employee to come to his office. What happened? Only I knew the answer to this question. Somebody tore the cheque I filled in. Since I work in the reputable bank and I had to work hard to get this job, immediately after getting to know what has happened I felt very insecure and stressed.

We all met in front of the boss office. Each of these suspecious so called friends was giving face like they feel soo annoyed. Boss wasn´t there so we had to wait. In such situation every second seems to be neverending. We all joined the bank just few months ago, we all thought we were friends, we were almost at the same age, young inexperienced boys and moreover we all thought we could rely on each other. Finally our boss appeared with very strict and worried face. „Come in, boys.“ he said. Each banker took his seat and the boss started investigation. „Well, I am shocked but there is a rat among us. Somebody who is able to deliberately tear the cheque his colleague filled in, I am sure somebody like this has nothing to do here. I consider it totally silly and I feel very sad to deal with this. Actually, I am talking about our great worker David. Today in the morning he came to me and shared what happened. Each of them looked at me, I felt weird but I was sure every body would do the same in my situation, every body would complain to boss. Every issue like this is very emberassing and each of suspecious boys was trying to impress the boss with his innocent explanation. Anyway, it didn´t work, vice versa it made him more furious. Later he announced: „I will call the police!! I can see that each employee makes silly excuses and we should involve the police in this matter. Let´s see if we can catch the villain. He paused and continued: „Boys, remember that every man should behave as real man but here I can see only little scared cowards!!“ yelled the boss.

All of a sudden Peter stood up and said: „Sir, it was me.“

Each colleague including boss was staring at him with open mouth and asked: „Whyyyy?“ He just added after few seconds of silence: „I felt jealous of his popularity and it made me insane.“

The boss was thinking how to react. Every word he was about to say wasn´t good enough to express how disappointed he was. In the end he just said: „Ok, I appreciate you decided to confess and I will think about the way how to punish you.“ He left the room and each of us realized we would never be the friends we used to be.

One special day

To give a birth is the nicest moment in life of almost every woman. Such day is something memorable and deeply written in our hearts. I can honestly say that it isn't fun at all but hard work with nice reward... all of a sudden little, innocent baby is here with us. Naked, without name and crying. No doubt that such cute newbie immediately steal our heart. We start exploring the world we haven´t had idea about before. World, which is full of love, caring, sleepless nights, happiness, crying. Just during one day all our life is changed because now we have big responsibility for this innocent little gift and we also feel strong duty to protect them. We realize it wont be easy at all but one glance at our baby has its special magic. It washes away all our doubts we ask ourselves - like: Am I able to be good mom? Am I able to make it after leaving hospital without any help? During this special day we will get to know many new things about ourselves. We will find out that the love we feel for our baby, I mean motherlove is special deep bound, which can understand only mom and her baby. I think that I won´t exegerate if I say that we literally fall in love with our little angel. We will also realize that there are new words we have never heard before. Nurses say: „Mother, I will check your baby.“ which is something totally new to every woman and I am sure we all like it, we all feel proud of being called mothers. Don´t worry , I didn´t forget about the fathers, their role is very important as well. Actually, to see happy, excited and touched father staring at his baby is moment every woman will remember and won´t ever forget.

The day I have described here deserves without any doubt to be called Special day with the capital letter S!!!

Hello all,

Garima started here two weeks ago challenge for EC writers, actually everybody can participate if you find it interesting you all are more than welcome! She asked me to continue - I mean this round it is my turn. Since I think it would be better to change it little bit and by chance I came across one funny joke, so here is my task :

Write a story about the picture bellow. Do your best and use minimum 500 words. Post your work as individual blog, give it title Meaning of life. Please, don´t post it here among the comments.

Looking forward to read your works ;-)

♥ C r u e l  l o v e ♥

She loved him,

he used her.

She fought for him,

he didn´t care.

She gave him her heart,

he only took.

She was blind in love,

he was full of his look.

She lost patience and left,

suddenly... he feels lonely.

She is gone forever,

He miss her and whispers ... IF ONLY!!!

The Expectations

We all expect something from our lives, some of us are lost in the expectations and become the dreamers, others prefer to stay flegmatic and don't expect almost anything. Then there are people who keep their feet firmly on the ground and try to compromise between emotions and mind. Expectations aren't anyhow limited and it is up to us how much of our precious time we will invest in anticipating.

I would say that the expactations go together with hope some of them with dreams or trust. It is so nice to recall the moments when we expected something eagerly and in the end we got satisfied, we got nice inner feeling after long time of waiting. It is something like reward – it is worth it!!

If we expect positive attitude from others, support them, for sure we won't regret because if we can motivate people, our effort will be highly appreciated. This is something what almost all the teachers know. On the other hand if we are 24/7 too negative and reserved we can't expect from others that they will enjoy our company. From such examples above we can say that the expectations go together with the way we behave, with our attitude towards people.

We expect to get promoted at work, we expect our friends won´t let us down, when we are children we expect our parents to buy for us the toys we dream of them, we automatically expect from people we love that they will love us back, we expect something exciting from the trip or journey, we expect that we will inherit big money one day or when we are on holiday we expect nice weather!  So many expectations but it all depends on our priorities, our dreams and of course not all the results of our expectations we are able to influence.

We also can live in false expectations, we get stuck somewhere and without any help we can't move on. Sometimes we tend to fool ourselves and we expect something unreal - for example love, which might be very painful and self-destroying. Luckily we all aren´t so patient enough to stay in such situation till our death and sooner or later we simply give up, we wake up from this dream, we kill disillusion that occupied our mind.

If somebody expect too much from others, they can get hurt easily, maybe we all have experienced it at least once. Our imagination might be misrepresented and naive or our demand is so high that not so many people are able to fulfill it and it makes us disappointed. We are these who determine in our life some rules. As time passes by we build up on the basis of our positive and negative experience our inner world – world of the expectations. But how to protect such world?  Logically, to avoid  disappointment it is better not to expect anything. But can we do that? Can people control themselves like this? Most people think positively and react instinctively and that's why not so many of us can in particular situation all of a sudden see the red warning light with the note : 

!!! Watch out!! Don't expect anything !!!

Of course, it wouldn't be sometimes so bad to be disciplined like this, to supress emotions and use only mind. In this case we would avoid disappointment of the expectations with bad endings.

Anyway, we learn from the mistakes, it moves us forward so let's be thankful even for all bad moments the expectations gave us because without them we would stay naive and immature. Without all our failures we wouldn´t become experienced and wouldn´t be able to analyze if something is worth it, if we can expect positive ending, in short if we can hope. Getting wiser, experienced and careful is maybe the only way how to protect our world of the expectations.

Warning !!! Hope you didn't expect too much :-D

It didn't take me so much time to make a decission whom I would love to invite for the dinner. I decided to follow my inner voice, to listen to my heart. Actually, it isn't bad idea to invite some celebrity or character from  a book but since I have one wish, which would be able to make come true, let me dream and enjoy my fictive awesome dinner with my beloved granny.

Unfortunatelly, my granny isn't already here among us, she died four years ago and I miss her so much. I can say she is still in my heart, in my memories and somehow I even feel she is watching me from the heaven because she is and always will be my angel.

First of all I have to decorate the table so that everything would give impression like time stopped long time ago, as if almost nothing was changed. Wooden table, some simple tablecover, candles to make this moment special and fresh flowers in the vase - these I would bring from my walk to make my granny happy. For some people maybe simple, for others not good enough but I like the saying that beauty lies in the simplicity. I am  imagining the dinner with my granny outside, only me and her during one nice warm October evening, somewhere in the countryside where she was born. I want to point out my granny loved autumn with all its colors so that's why I chose this season.

As for the menu I would serve something unhealthy but sooo tasty!!! Cabbage soup would make my granny so surprised and I can hear her saying to me: Ohhhh, it tastes like mine!!! But I don´t want to talk about something you maybe have no idea how it looks like, so take a look here.

Then we would continue with another traditional Czech dish - schnitzel and potato salad, of course made by me. Let me show you.

Meanwhile we are eating, so many topics to discuss would be in the air. I am sure that she would be interested in my family. Anyway, I would ask her so many questions I don't know answers for them because her death or better to say stage before death was something weird. She suffered from brain stroke and has got paralyzed for few months before she died. She was unable to speak but we all could have seen from her reactions and gestures that she understood.  I would ask her what from was the mysterious key we found in her purse, if there is something she didn´t tell us or it was her secret, why she left money hidden in one book between two pages with the  text about sense of life, which she must have done before it all happened. I can see us chatting for a long time, gossiping about our family, having fun, laughing and in the and she would tell me as usual that she loves me the most of her grandchildren. I know it is unfair but it was like this :)

Now time to come up with something I dreamt of would come!!! I am calling : “Kids, come hereeeeeee, join us...” What is the best to serve in such situation? Chocolate cake!! You know, she has never seen them in person because she died just few months afterwards my older child had been born, she only saw him in the pictures. To enjoy the cake with her, to see hapiness in her eyes, it all would mean so much to me. 

I would enjoy every second with her and would be so happy for the opportunity to see her once more again. So see you my granny in the heaven one day, hope you are waiting for me and we will enjoy our dinner together there !!!

Music versus videos

Today in the morning I suffered from the big cultural shock!! I watched Lady Gaga's latest video clip and didn't believe my eyes! Maybe I am too old, puritan, maybe I was raised in the different way but seriously to watch a video where singer prefers showing their half-naked body and music is there just something like coulisse, it didn't impress me at all. Honestly it made me feel disgusted and I really despise "artists" like this.

Lately I found out that such videoclips are almost common and I wonder what we or our kids will be watching in upcoming years. Are there any limits?

Singer should sing and I am just asking myself how come ten or fifteen years ago we watched something totally different, nice in the video clips  and now if there isn't any half-naked body part, it doesn't rock? I don't believe that music industry bottomed out so rapidly. In my opinion it all started  because  the singers who were unable to get attention only by their voice, such singers had to  come up with something "special" - something really cheap. Anyway, believe it or not - they became popular and their style started being trendy. Sad point of it is that even those who can sing good are now sort of forced to follow this "new fashion" to keep their popularity. I am sure that men enjoy such show where female singers present their body - actually it is made for them but I am curious to see such men as fathers answering to their kids the questions like: "Dad, why is this woman half-naked there and moving like this? It looks weird to me."  Should they react : "Ohh, better don't watch it, it isn't for the kids."

So if one day the video clips are only for the adults and we will be scared of turning on the channels like MTV since the kids are in the room, I think that one day some of us will realize that such situation simply reflects the degradation of the society we live in.