My realizations

My dear teacher and my dear fellows,

How are you? I hope that great as usual:)

I can say proudly that I finished the book from our individual reading. I am very glad that in the end it happened. I was thinking that I will never finish it)))

Sincerely I liked the book,it's interesting. I like Charles Dickens's style of writing,although there were many new words and was a little bit difficult to read this book.
 
 As well as "A Tale of Two Cities" I noticed that "Great Expectations" reveals problems of common people and the distinction between common people and rich people. 

Pip,seeing that Estella as a little child was ignoring him even they were playing wanted to become a gentleman. Estella called Pip " Boy",she was making fun of him,also calling "knaves,jacks" and when Miss Havisham made Pip and Estella play cards,she didn't want to because Pip is "common". 

I liked all the changes that happened in Pip's life and around him. I couldn't even imagine that his benefactor would be Magwitch,the convict that scared himvery much in the churchyard when he was a child.
Maybe Magwitch did so,because Pip helped him in a way,stealing from his sister food and a file and probably he also felt a need to be much obliged to Pip for all he had done for Magwitch.

I also discovered that this convict was Estella's father and Molly,a woman who was working at Jaggers's house was Estella's mother. What a surprise! 

At the end,I am happy that Estella has changed and she understood that she can be a good person and not so bad how Miss Havisham treated her. And Pip also realized that his behaviour towards Joe was bad. Pip helped much his good friend-Herbet. So,everything is good except that Pip lost many dear people for him,such as his sister,his benefactor and there also died Miss Havisham.

P.S.: I like the couples that remained together,I mean Joe with Biddy,Herbert with Clara and definitely Pip with Estella.

Guys,did you like the book? What moments did impressed you more? 
Good luck to you,my dear friends-in the exams and in general and I wish you Happy Christmas!!!

Love,
Alina

About exams!!!

Dear fellows,

How are you? Are you ready for exams? We know that the exams will come soon.
  
   First of all,I would like to tell you that I am happy to finish this semester because,in my opinion it was a very difficult semester.

Secondly,I wish you much success in our exams and to receive much knowledge and high marks!!!

Thirdly,I know that we are "Bessora and Experts" (as our dear teacher says) and we are smart,good at all the subjects and we will win them,the exams I mean.

So,my dear fellows,don't be afraid,everything will be OK and think that after this we will have a possibility to stay home,to talk to our families and relatives,and also to celebrate Winter Holidays!!!

I wonder if somebody can say this :)

 

As I said before I wish you

 

 

I want and I hope that at the end everybody of us will cry happily out that:

                    WE WILL SUCCEED IN EVERYTHING!!!

Just a post:)

My dear teacher and my dear fellows,

How are you? How's life? What news?

I know that some of you finished to read "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.

     I am also about to finish it and I am very because it is a very long novel and it takes much time to read.
As I had read some passages,I discovered that in Pip's life appeared someone whose name is Magwitch. he was a convict,and namely that convict that threatened Pip in the churchyard when he was a child.
   
      And Pip also heard about Compeyson,he was that man who dared to leave Miss Havisham at the altar.
Pip was helping at that very moment by Wemmick,who hid Magwitch at Clara's house beacuse Compeyson was in town in order to find Magwitch.

By the way,I forgot to say that when I was reading I found out that namely Magwitch was Pip's benefactor but I don't know why he did so.
I think I will learn this and also many other interesting information about the characters,new characters too.

Good luck my dear friends and succeed in everthing that you do and are going to do! Smile more that life is beautiful!

Yours ever,
Alina

My Realizations

Hello dear friends,

How are you? Are you happy that winter came? It's true winter outside,so much snow:)

     Let's discuss a little bit on our individual reading. I look froward to finishing this great novel. I am interested in it's end. Will it be a happy end? I hope that it will be so.

         So,the previous week I found out more facts about Pip's life and all the things around him :
On his way to home,he met two convicts who accompanied carriage riders and one of them was the very same man who gave him 2 pound note all those years ago at  the Three Jolly  Bargemen. Pip jumped from carriage at the first possible stop. When he got to the Blue Boar,everybody recognized him as an young man whom Pumblechook was responsible for.
         All this time Pip was thinking only about Estella,he was excited that he would see her. When he went to Miss Havisham and knocked at her gate that one who appeared was - Orlick,that agresive man who worked in the forge. Pip and Orlick like each other as much as cats like dogs:) because they exchanged only some words.
        Finally Pip saw Estella again when he found Miss Havisham who was admiring a lady,namely Estella. She was so beautiful but she told Pip that she didn't have a heart and she couldn't feel anything for anybody. Pip couldn't believe that. And she also told him that he was a silly boy. Miss Havisham commanded to Pip to love Estella. She was like a broken record because she repeated over and over and over again to love her!
Pip loved so much Estella because he really believed that he and Estella were meant to be,he was meant to marry her and he really didn't want to go back to Joe,he considered that he had to stay away from Joe and reject his family,too.

So guys,I can say that Love is really blind because it also happened to Pip. He didn't see anybody except Estella and he was ready to forget about his family and friend because of her. He was like dreaming,he acted like a fool and he didn't believe when she told him that she was heartless because he had hopes and was sure that they will be together. But Estella didn't care indeed,when they went to a walk in the Miss Havisham's garden she told Pip that she couldn't remember any of the stories he told her about their childhood and about the moments spent together.

I will read more and I will found out if Estella will agree to be with Pip...because I can't even guess what she will decide. Good luck girls because I know that only girls read this book:)

Love,
Alina

Monday's expectations

Dear my teacher and dear my fellows,

      I am glad that we read such a book,I would like even to watch this movie. If I had had more free time I would have finished this book. But anyway,I hope that I will manage to read it in time.

      About my expectations-I think that anyway Pip will meet Estella because as Joe went to London to visit him and told him this means that he has already know about this fact and he will decide to go home.  Sincerely I expect that Pip will do this,will see Biddy,will see his sick sister,maybe she will recover till his arrival at home.

And one more thing,I think that Joe was angry at Pip when he visited him because Pip had changed him very much and in my opinion,not in right direction-he became a gentleman,he had power but he began to forget about his family and his friends. And maybe Pip will realize this fact and will apologize Joe for his behaviour.

I will read this week more and I will discover if I have a good intuition. My dear fellows,what about you? Do you like Pip's changes in his life? I wish you a good time,be more positive and good luck to everyone!!!

Sincerely yours,
Alina
   

My realizations

Hi my dear friends,

How are you? Today is Monday again. I am so disappointed,I don't manage anything to do.
     
       So,let's return to our book. After I had read some passages from it,I found out that Mr.Pocket was glad to meet Pip but his wife was not so interested. She was not a useful lady. She was proud that her father was a would-be-baron. Instead,Mr.Pocket was a brilliant scholar and he made a living teaching and writing books. There was a "toady" neighbor,Mrs.Coiler who was a snake-like lady and she told Pip about how embarrassed was Mrs.Pocket that her husband liked to teach others. 
      Pip also met 2 young men with whom he would study at Mr.Pocket's house: Drummle and Startop.
By the way,I think that Mr.Pocket is a good person because he gave Pip money to buy new furniture as Pip wanted to have his own one. Wemmick gave Pip that money and also invited Pipto his place. I remained surprised when I read about Wemmick's house where Pip went to dinner. It was better than Disney world,his house was like a "castle". Mr.Wemmick introduced Pip to his father. 
      At least,I understood that Pip began to realize that Wemmick is very different-at home he is a kind of person,but at the office he is another one and they had a great time in Wemmick's "castle". When all the men had dinner at Jaggers' they began to quarrel among themselves and there Pip also noticed Molly who was very strange and quiet. She seemed to be afraid of Jaggers,maybe thay beated her because of her hands and arms. 
    Once,Pip received a letter from Biddy in which she wrote that Joe would visit him soon. When Joe came he used to call Pip "sir". Pip was embarrassed By Joe's manners but Pip wasn't really making Joe feel at home. At least,Joe told Pip his true reason for his visit: Estella wanted to see Pip and suddenly Pip felt much and much better. Joe told Pip that he had changed and only in the forge he felt most at home and most comfortable. Those Joe's words made Pip thinking. He was very sad after Joe left him.

That's all,I am curious what will happen next,I am going to write in my expectations about this.
Have a nice week and good luck! Go on reading my darling friends:)

Love,
Alina 

It's Winter!!!

Hello everybody! How are you?

     What a pity that the week-end finished and a new week began,but a nice and beautiful one,because today I saw first "snowflakes"-so white,so pure and so big.

     It was wonderful,and by the way,as I like this season very much I would like to wish you-my dear friends a winter full of happy moments near the closest people:)

  

HAPPY WINTER !!!

 

My expectations

Dear Mrs.Condrat and dear Group EF21,

     Hi!!! How are you? How did this week begin for you? What news? I want to share my further expectations with all of you.

       Well,I think that Pip will become a very smart,intelligent and respectable gentleman. He will start a good career in London,he will have a good job. Maybe he will meet someone to fall in love and to marry,in this way he will forget about Estella.
  
      The only thing that I am afraid of is the fact that maybe Pip will become a gentleman who will not care about other's lives,his only care will be money which can change everything,even the man himself,but not feelings and emotions. And also money gives power to be among famous people.

So,I will read this week more,I will find out more interesting facts about Pip and his new life in London.
My dear,have a nice week,have great success in everything you do daily and don't forget to be positive!!!

Love,
Alina

My Realizations

Dear teacher and dear friends,

         Hello! How are you? How did your weekend pass? I am sorry I was late,but on Friday I went home and I also was at my friend's wedding,I didn't manage to post anything so I am going to post today.

So,when morning came-Pip felt better,much better and he couldn't wait to go to London. In the moment when Pip told Joe that he would never forget him he was a little bit insincere. Afterwards,Pip went to Mr.Pumblechook's to put on his new clothes. Biddy,Joe and his sister pretended to be happy for him. Pip wanted to go to the carriage by himself and by the way,he was ok till he got in the carriage because then he started to cry,hard. He was too far away....
       And this was the end of the first stage of Pip's expectations.

      The journey to London lasted about five hours. Pip thought that London was overrated and everything was dirty. The carriage driver led Pip to Mr.Jagger's office where he was greeted by a clerk who told Pip to wait for Mr.Jagger because he was in court. Pip waited in Mr.Jagger's office,seeing many strange things. His chair looked like a coffin. It was a very dreary office which added to Pip like a specific sense of London.

      Pip together with Mr. Wemmick,a dry man,short in stature,with a square wooden face and Pip judged him to be a bachelor,went to Barnard's Inn. That place was dirty,crusty and looked to Pip like a flat burying-ground. When they went up to Pip's new apartament they saw that Mr.Pocket,Junior left a message that he would return in short time. When Mr.Pocket,Juniorarrived he brought some strawberries for Pip and suddenly they realized that they knew each other because they fought many years ago in Miss Havisham's garden.What a surprise!!! They began to talk and Mr.Pocket,Junior-Herbert told Pip Miss Havisham's story.
     
       I like that moment very much,Herbert told Pip so many interesting about Miss Havisham life,about her dad,about her half-brother-Arthur,about her wedding to one gentleman,etc. London is so amazing for Pip who didn't see anything else than marshes. Afterwards,Pip and Herbert decided to go to the Pocket house next in Hammersmith where Pip met Herbert's seven brothers and sisters-who were playing on the lawn,his mother,Mrs.Pocket-who was reading a book very intensely and then Mr.Pocket arrived,a disheveled,grey-haired and little bit decentralized(deconcentrat,I am not sure that it is wright).

Well,guys,what about you? Where have you stopped? I will go on reading instantly this week. Good luck to everyone!

Love,
Alina

Monday's Expectations

  Dear teacher and dear my friends,

How is life? Do you like the book that we read?

       Today is Monday and I want to post something about my expectations. I have read 18 chapters and I can say that I am really sorry for Pip,for his sister,for Biddy,for Joe and in some way for Miss Havisham. I wish some changes.
       I can only supposed that maybe in future Pip will marry Biddy and they will live happily. Biddy will teach and educate their children.         
       Pip will become a gentleman as he is always dreaming about. He doesn't like to be a common person,but as well as nowadays,in the past there were also rich people and common ones. Joe will become a very famous blacksmith,maybe the best and all the people will go to him to make horseshoes. Mrs.Joe will recover gradually and she will be the best woman,sister and perhaps a mother too.
 
      So,I wrote here a true happy end:) I expect that it really will be a happy one. I will go on reading and I will discover everyone's life,deeds and feelings.
        Good luck everybody and have succes in everything you do.

Love,
Alina

Youth

 Hello everybody!!! How are you? How did your week begin?

    You know that last week was Youth Week from the11th to the 17th of November. There was The Student's Day on the 17th of November,too. As well as I am also young and also a student I want to post some things,some pictures about these days:

Youth Week

                           

 The Student's Day

    Youth is generally the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity)^. Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age,as immature individuals can exist at all ages. Youth is also defined as "the appearance, freshness,vigor,spirit,etc.,characteristic of one who is young."

Don't be afraid to be YOUNG and FREE!!!

Because  IT'S GREAT TO BE YOUNG!!!

 

And also  IT'S FUN TO BE YOUNG!!!

 

As every person from this great world 

 

 Not only me, WE ALL WANT TO BE YOUNG!!!

 And here it is impossible to be only one flower which we can associate with  YOUTH

Flowers of Youth
 

Dahlia

Fountain of Youth

Maturity and Youth

At the end I want to make a conclusion that Youth is the most wonderful and amazing period from everybody's life through which we volens-nolens have to pass,to live further and to enjoy life!!! So,

 

That's all I had prepared for you my dear,I hope that you like it:) 
Smile! Enjoy Life! Don't Worry-Be Happy! Be positive and positive things will happen to you!

 

  
 

Sunday's Realizations

Dear teacher and friends,

  How are you? What news?
      Reading some chapters from the book I can say that I found out that there was Miss Havisham's birthday once where Pip was present,too as her relatives. Her relatives visited her every year on her birthday. That day she told them about where she wished to be laid when she would die. Pip met another boy in Miss Havisham's garden. They fought. There Pip kissed Estella on her cheek. One day Miss Havisham told Pip that she wanted to see Joe too. She gave Joe 25 pounds at their meeting. When Mrs.Joe and Mr.Pumblochook found out that fact they went crazy:)
       That vey day Pip was taken to the Court to become a blacksmith's apprentice but Pip always thought about that occurrence adn how much he didn't want to be a blacksmith. Pip felt somehow ashamed of his lifestyle. Pip always thought only about Estella but Estella was in France learning to be a beautiful,educated woman. Ooooo,something terrible happened further. Pip's sister was found in the kitchen,lying unconscious on the ground and she hab been hit hard on the back of her head. She became an invalid,she lost her hearing,she couldn't move or talk without great difficulty. She could express her thoughts on a chalk board. Only Biddy could understand Mrs.Joe really well. Biddy began to live in Gragery's house. On one Sunday she together with Pip walked on the marshes. They were talking about Estella and about Pis's dream to become a gentleman.
   Oooo,by the way Joe engaged a man whose name was Orlick. Pip didn't trust him at all. Orlick liked Biddy and flirted with her against her will. One more thing,it seemes that Pip got used to the whole blacksmith thing,even he thought that life is more peaceful withput his sister and he began to imagine himself living with Joe for the rest of his life and eventually marrying Biddy.

  Well,that's all I managed to read this week. Definitely,I will go on reading. Dear teacher and fellows,good luck and have a nice week:) Be happy!!!

Yours ever,
Alina

Monday's Expectations

Dear my teacher and my dear fellows,

How are you? How have your week begun?
   And now,something about our book and my further expectations. One think that I want to say is that I expect that Pip will fall in love with Estella,but how,in what way(this question always bothers me) if she was always making fun of him for calling "knaves", "jacks" and saying that he had coarse hands and thick boots.She didn't even want to play with him because he was "common". That was the reason for what Pip was complexing very much and I was sorry for him.
    I also expect that Miss Havisham's life will change because she suffered very much as she told Pip that she had a broken heart.She was wearing an old,yellowy-brown wedding dress maybe because she was unhappy in marriage or her husband died. And maybe in Mrs.Joe's family and house also will take place some changes.

I will read further and I will see what will happen with every character from our novel.Good Luck to everybody and have fun:)

Sincerely yours,
Alina

My Sunday's realizations

   Dear teacher and fellows,

  How are you? I am glad that today is Sunday and we can still rest a little:)

       I read some passages more,somewhere 10 chapters entirely and I want to share with my impressions.
       Pip's life changed a little bit.Pip spent the night at Mr.Pumblechook's in the attic. Mr.Pumblechook was a seedsman,he sold lots of seedy stuff.He also wore corduroys.In the morning,they went to Miss Havisham's.It was a big,dismal mansion with a lot of bars,gates and boarded up windows. There was a vacant brewery, too.They rang the bell and waited for somebody to unlock the gate.A young girl came to them and didn't let Mr.Pumblechook inside.That house had 2 names : the manor house and Satis House."Satis" meant "enough". Enough House.The little girl told Pip that,when it was first built,the builders thought that whoever owned the house could want nothing more in life.She was Pip’s age,but she was really proud and patronizing.She called Pip - "boy." She was also really pretty.The little girl dropped Pip off and told him to go inside.
       There Pip met Miss Havisham,a weirdest lady he had ever seen in his life.She was old and was wearing beatiful clothes,that was a wedding dress and it was so old because it looked yellowy-brown.There were jewels and gloves and lace on her dressing table.Miss Havisham told Pip that she had a broken and then she smiled strangely.Afterwards she commanded Pip to play.He played Estella,but she then didn't want because Pip was "common".She always made fun of him for calling "knaves" or "jacks".She scorned his coarse hands and his thick boots,too.Then Pip went home and Miss Havisham ordered Estella to give him some food.The next day,Pip's sister wanted to know all about Miss Havisham and his house.Mr.Pumblechook came to them and Pip began to tell them some awesome stories.Pip felt really guilty when the two related the story to Joe. He HATES lying to Joe,his best friend.Later on,in the forge,Pip confessed to Joe that the stories of the black coach,the big dogs and the flags were all fabricated.Joe was really shocked and disappointed.Joe told him that he would not ever become uncommon if he continued to tell lies.Pip went to bed thinking about all the differences between Joe’s house and Miss Havisham’s house and how so much had changed that day.Pip got the notion in his head that he needed some schooling in order to become uncommon and Biddy solved the problem,she decided to teach him and all the children in the town.One noght after school,Pip found Joe,Mr.Wopsle and a strange man at the "Three Jolly Bargema" pub.Pip recognized the file that was at that strange man to be very like the same that he had stolen from Joe's smithy and gave to the escaped convict.As they wanted to go home,the mysterious man gave Pip some change wrapped in a piece of paper. Pip was greateful and when they got home and unwrapped the paper,they understood that the paper was actually money itself.Pip ran back to the pub he wasn't there.Mrs.Joe filled a tea pot with the money.Pip had wild dreams all night.

Here I stopped,the chapter 8 was very long and I hardly read it.I will read maybe this coming week more.Have a nice week my dear:)Good luck!!!

Love,
Alina

Monday's expectations

Dear teacher and fellows,

    How is life? As today is Monday I wish to post here something and namely my expectations from the book.
     I couldn't even imagine that everything will be like this but Charles Dickens had an another "imagination". I expected that Pip's life would be better,his sister would be the closest's his person and she would love him,but I was wrong...
      His only friend is Joe and Pip even felt guilty himself because he didn't say anything about his robbery. He was afraid of this,he didn't want that Joe would remai disappointed. And now I think that Pip will meet Estella finally,because I have a feeling that she will be Miss Havishman's daughter whom Pip is supposed to become a playmate to. But I have a doubt in the same time thinking that Estella will be not so good than I expected. Shortly,I will see how the things will be.

Ok,I will read further and I will discover.I wish everybody good luck and mush succes in everything that you do:) And be positive (Don't forget to smile) and positive things will happen to you:)

Love,
Alina

My Sunday's Realizations

Dear teacher and fellows,

    How are you? How did your week-end pass? As I have read some chapters from the book,I want to share with my impressions about the actions. Sincerely I expected that Pip's life would become better,but I understood that it wasn't so. And by the way I have never thought at all that Joe had a such hard and unhappy childhood. I was sorry about him while I was reading this. He was supposed to work hard although he was a little boy.
       So,something about Pip: After that he had stolen some food for that fearful man he came home. He was afraid that his sister would found out this. But anyway,nobody found this. It was Christmas and there were some guests in his sister's house :Mr. Wopsle(the clerk at church),Mr. Hubble(the wheelwright),Mrs.Hubble and Mr. Pumblechook (Joe’s uncle). All of them had a bad attitude towards Pip and his sister too. She had a bad behaviour and in my opinion,she was a bad sister. Only Joe was his best friend. As they had their Christmas dinner,some soldiers appeared on the Gargery's doorstep. Pip with Joe joined these soldiers to go to find the escapees. They found these convicts and the young one confessed that Pip's convict was intent on killing him. Pip's convict recognized him but he didn't say anything about Pip and their "secret". The two convicts were taken away. Pip felt himself guilty because he didn't say Joe a word about his robbery. Then they both returned home where the guests still were present. Joe retold them all the story. Pip went to school at Mr.Wopsle's great aunt house. There he met Biddy,she was Mr.Wopsle's great aunt's granddaughter. She also was an orphan. One night,when Pip was toghether with Joe,and he was practicing his writing. At that moment Joe said that he never went to school and then explained why. There were some problems in their family. His father was an alcoholic and Joe worked hard. Mrs.Joe was visiting Mr.Pumblechook. When she had come home she said that Miss Havishman wanted that Pip would be as a playmate for her daughter. Pip spent the night at Mr.Pumblechook's and in the morning he would be taken to Miss Havishman. Pip was confused. His sister cleaned him. Pip also was sad because he had never left Joe before.
   And here I stopped. I will see soon what will happen futher.

Have a nice week dear teacher and fellows! Have fun:) Enjoy the life:)

Love,
Alina

This Is Halloween

The History of Halloween

 

 

Halloween

    Hello everybody! As Halloween comes soon I want to post something about it here.

    Fisrtly : Halloween is a yearly holiday observed in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Puerto Rico, northwestern and central Mexico on October 31, the eve before the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. In the Catholic Church this festivity is the equivalent of Day of the Dead. Halloween activities include Trick-or-Treating or Guising, costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, etc.

 Secondly: I want to post a story which is considered to be the halloween legend and lore.

"The Jack-O-Lantern"

    The legend of the Jack-O-Lantern comes from Ireland from about the 18th century. With some variations the basis of the Jack-O-Lantern is as follows:
There was a stingy drunkard of an Irishman named Jack who tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree. Then Jack quickly cut the sign of a cross into the trunk of the tree, thereby preventing the Devil from climbing down. Jack made the Devil swear that he wouldn't ever come after Jack's soul again or claim it in any way. However, this did not stop Jack from dying and when he did he was not allowed into Heaven, because of his life of drinking, being tightfisted and being deceitful. And because of the oath the Devil had taken Jack was not allowed into Hell either. "But where can I go?" asked Jack. "Back where you came from!" replied the Devil. The way back was windy and dark. The Devil, as a final gesture, threw a live coal at Jack straight from the fire of Hell. To light his way and to keep it from blowing out in the wind Jack put it in a turnip he was eating. Ever since Jack and his "lantern" has been traveling over the face of the earth looking for a place to rest.

The moral of the story: Don't mess with the devil !!!

 

 Thirdly : Some quotes about Halloween.

 1. " There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. "     - Robert Brault

2. " I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. " - Robert Brault

  3. " Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. " – Steve Almond

4. " A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween." - Erma Bombeck

 5. " True love is like ghosts,which everyone talks about but few have seen. " ~ Anonymous

And some more interesting facts about:

" Ghosts, Bats and other Halloween stuff... "
 

Halloween is based on an ancient holiday 'All Hallows Eve'. It was the one day of the year where dead spirits were allowed to walk the earth.

Bats fingers are actually parts of its wings and their "fingers" are bigger then their body

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

"Phasmophobia" is a fear of ghosts.

Of the 4000 species of mammals on the planet, there are 900 different species of bats.

Worldwide, bats are the most important natural enemies of night-flying insects.

9% of Americans report having been in the prescence of a ghost.

During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs. They failed.

Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.

Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.

Guys, HAVE A SPOOKY HALLOWEEN!

And,by the way :)

Monday's expectations

Dear my teacher and my fellows,

    How are you? I would like to write here about my further expectations on this novel. Sincerely I expected more pleasure from its reading but I think it will be forward but anyway,I am very curious what will happen.
  
    I expect that Pip will be more happy in the future. He will share with his sister about everything as he does this with Joe,his brother-in-law. And maybe he will get rid of that bad man who demanded Pip to bring him a file and some food. I consider him as a negative character. I am looking forward to read those passages where Estella will be present. I want to discover if she is truly a positive character as I think. I want to see her place in this novel,too. Maybe she will become Pip's good friend or even his sweetheart. I am very interested in this character and I also think that she will be my favourite character. I think that this story is full of adventures and actions and certainly Love must be present in it.
  
So,I will try to get pleasure from the reading and I am sure that I will discover everyone's place in this book.
Good luck to everybody and as our dear teacher always says: " Be positive and positive things will happen to you!" I like it.It encourages me a lot:) and by the way- " Do not forget always to smile because as my dear Kate said that Smile is the priority of everybody!" and also I want to add that someone can fall in love with your smile:)

My realizations

   Dear teacher and fellows,

    How are you? I want to share with you my impressions on those passages that I have read.
  
      During the reading of this novel,I found some characters in it. The main character was a little boy who was six years old. He is a positive character. His full name was Philip Pirrip. So,he called himself Pip and came to be called Pip. Because of the fact that he was an orphan he lived with his sister - Mrs.Joe Gargery and her blacksmith husband - Joe Gargery. They lived in the marsh country,down by the river,within,as the river wound,twenty miles of the sea. The boy never saw his parents : Philip and Georgiana - they died and also their infant  children - Alexander,Bartholomew,Abraham,Tobias and Rofer died.
      The boy relieved his pain trying to imagine his parent's appearances from their tombstones and from the shape of the letters on them. He liked to go to the churchyard but one day as he stayed there he was scaried by a fearful man with a great iron on his leg who jumped out of a hiding place and grabed Pip by the throat.
He demanded that Pip must bring him some food and a sharp. Then the man disappeared telling to the boy that he would cut out his heart and liver if he didn't obey. The boy went home.
      In the boy's words : " My sisters, Mrs.Joe Gargery,was more than twenty years older than I....; She was not a good-looking woman,my sister;and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.; My sister,Mrs.Joe,with black hair and eyes,had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.; She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron,fastened over her figure behind with two loops,and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.; She made it a powerful merit in herself,and a strong reproach against Joe,that she wore this apron so much.; Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it at all : or why,if she did wear it at all,she should not have taken it off,every day of her life." there is his sister's direct characterization.
     There is also Joe's direct characterization  : " Joe was a fair man,with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face,and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild,good-natured,sweet-tempered,easy-going,foolish,dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength,and also in weakness." Pip described Joe as his best friend with whom he liked to talk but he could not understand why a man as gentle and sweet as Joe would ever marry a woman as mean and hard as his sister.
   When Pip went home,his sister was not at home,she was looking for him,there was only Joe. When she came home she disgraced Pip and asked where he was. He told to her that he was in the churchyard. After,they had their dinner and Pip succeeded to steal some food and ran off into the marshes to find that man.
    Here I stopped. I will read more because I am curious what will happen further. I liked it,but it is a little bit difficult because as in the previous book there are many unknown words and no time to look them up in the dictionary:) Guys,what about you? Do you like this book?

My expectations from "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Hi everybody! As we have read the previous book " Frankenstein " and have done a presentation on it (about which I am very sorry and I apologize our teacher because I am so emotional,I will do my best to change my being and to become stronger spiritually),we must to read another book,that differs very much from Shelley's. I like the Dickens's manner of writing and his novels. In my opinion,it is easier to read them and they are more interesting. Last year,the second year students (Irina and Anne) made a beautiful presentation of this book,drawing a tree on which they put down all the names of the characters from this novel,but they emphasized more on Estella,a young beautiful girl. They told us some interesting things about this novel. I had even understood that it was (maybe) a dramatic one. I will discover this. Right then,there was a great curiosity to this book. They had even told us they we would be supposed to read it and told us very little abut it.So,they were right:) I will try to enjoy this book if I have time to do it and to read it not in a hurry.Good luck to all of us!!!!!

    Hi everybody,how are you my dear? Now,I want to put some questions to my partner-Albu Nadejda,using the appropiate verbs from Bloom’s taxonomy.I think that it will not be very hard to answer to my questions dear Nadia))As I understood from the division "Individual Reading(Week 1) we must formulate 6 questions,3 on knowledge level and 3 on comprehesion level.Let's begin:
     Firstly,I will begin with knowlegde level.Dear Nadia:
1)describe in 3 sentences Elizabeth Lavenza's personality;
2)name all the places where Victor together with his family had moved;
3)recognize from the following passage who is represented : "......but I united myself in the bonds of the closest friendship to one among them.__________ was the son of merchant of Geneva.he was a boy of singular talent anf fancy.He loved enterprise,hardship,and even danger for its own sake.he was deeply read in books of chivarly and romance.He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure............."

   Comprehension level:
1)give an example of another book like "Frankenstein"(I mean also of horror);
2)explain : Why did the Victor's father's friend retreat with his daughter to the town of Lucerne?
3)translate into roumanian the passage : "She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself. "My children",she said, "my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your opinion.This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.Elizabeth,my love,you must supply my place to my younger children.Alas!I regret that I am taken from you; and,happy and beloved as I have been,is it not hard to quit you all?But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and wiil indulge a hope of meeting you in another world." "
 I hope,Nadia that you will not be upset with me,may be it is too much work here,but I am sure that you will do your best to do it.Good luck!!!!