Day 3

Today I read poems by the second writer. One poem and novel by him left.
Then I went and re-applied to the Academy. But I forgot one paper for MSLU so I'll go there tomorrow. Again. I spend so much time on things because of my mistakes.
In the evening I listened to the lecture James D. Watson, the scientist who discovered DNA structure with F. Crick . Wow, I saw a person whom I knew from my biology student book. And he was ALIVE X) That is crazy. He is 80 this year.
Well. There are James Watson quotes (I can't ascertain you that they are exact and right, but I tried to write them down as soon as possible):

"We wanted to be first"
"Committees slow everything down" - about hiring people.
"We hired people before everybody knew they were good."
"As a boy I was told that mathematicians are strange."
"All the things I said might be wrong except... I don't think so."
"People who work on schizophrenia, they should be excited. That is a message of my lecture".

So, that's it. Prof. J. Watson said a lot more but I was so amazed at first that I didn't write it down. His words were motivational, he wanted to inspire scientists. That was great.
Ah, now I have only two exams on 23. And one will be on 18 (in Academy - History). And I must pass it with all my might.
Good luck everyone!

Legendary canteen

I'm proud of the previous post (though it was long) because it gave me the motivation. Yeah, and I'm going to bed now. To turn in, as they say ^_^
But I wanted to write a few words about today. Because today I got this idea about motivation again.
I have been to University to apply for the law contest which is on the 4th of May. In 5 days, right.
Ok, I went to University. You know, it has lots of buildings and they are old and they look awesome. When I was a kid I wanted to get to this University because it was beautiful and it reminded me of buildings in some strategy game where there were lines on buildings in the colors of player. And there are the same lines on most buildings of this University and they are red (the default color of player).
So today I was impressed as always by these enormous buildings. And the weather was fine so after I gave all the necessary documents to one fair-haired guy and talked with two second-year female students about University life and entrance exams (they were speaking and I listened) I decided to take a tour around University and eat at the legendary canteen. I found it with the help of my bro's directions that he gave me a month ago (I called him to refresh them in my mind. It was like "Hi, bro, I want to go to the canteen, it is to the elevators and then on the left, I meant right. - Yeah, right"). And I had to ask a security guard because I knew I went the wrong direction. The canteen was behind me when I asked him. But you know, this is not an easy way. You should go to the elevators, then turn right before them and then turn left and then right and then there will be a long corridor with something suspicious like University theater or telegraph and then you see a lot of bikes and you see half of all people go straight forward down the ladder and the other half goes forward to where shops are. And I forgot where was a tricky ladder that you won't notice if you do not know that there should be one. I went back the other way =) But I ate at the canteen. I was nervous like this was some sort of a test. If you fail - you are hungry, if you succeed - you get a delicious dinner. It cost me about 1,40 euros for carrot salad with raisins and meat with buckwheat. And I took a sweet cherry compote to drink. However I got a dirty spoon which I did not have to use, thanks goodness. And there was no knife. But dinner was really good and I liked it.
Well, now I have another motivation besides the beauty of buildings - it is a cheap and good dinners at the Legendary Canteen.

One Sunday in April

Today was a great day.
I woke up at 8-20 and went to the center to meet with my new French friends. That was totally fun and I'm happy to had such an opportunity. Well, now I know that I do not speak French. At all. Have to improve it after exams, I suppose. And I'm saying "I suppose" too much now, I suppose =)
So, I met with a sister and a brother. They are Czech-French and they knew English, so that was alright.
We went to the 8th Photobiennalle to the exhibition about Lumière and some other photography (like portraits of famous actors and actresses and photos of mountains in Tibet and China). There were lots of photos made by Lumière brothers: portraits of their family members, some celebrations and moments, quite personal.
Then we ate at KFC ^__^
And when I finally got home I was soaked with rain. I watched a film called Dungeons & Dragons after that, eating some cheese. The film was cool 'cause it was right, I think. When one black mage was making a long and dangerous spell on the queen and then the dragon comes from somewhere and eats the mage. Hell, what a beautiful scene, such a good luck and circumstances X)
And in the evening the heat-electric generating plant just near my house began to smoke like hell - it was on fire. So, we went and made lots of video and took photos. Dangerous thing, aha.
The day was good and not progressive as I did not do any studies today. It was relaxing, however I am totally tired.