Look at her. What a beautiful, sophisticated woman. It's incredible how much charm she has and how beautifully she speaks. I guess we can all agree that after "Pride and prejudice" it seemed obvious that she'll become a wonderful woman, but this short clip really moved me. I haven't seen many movies with her, I have to catch up. Just listen to her, she's amazing!

This week I decided to visit Toruń. My father had a rally out there and I thought it's a good opportunity to meet him there and see the city. It turned out to be a great idea! I spent two days sunbathing by the river, drinking coffee and sightseeing. I don't really like visiting cities, I prefer seaside and of course, above all, montains. But this time I had a lot of fun, I don't think I've ever been so impressed. The city is charming, there are many people, but it's not too crowdy. All the buildings seem to be harmonised, even though some of them are much older than the others. It's really amazing how beautiful Old City can be. We have one in Szczecin, but it's out blind-spot, if you ever visit Szczecin don't go there, it's much more beautiful by the river. 

Unfortunately weekends are so short, that I had to go back to Szczecin to do something productive. My train to Poznań leaves tommorow at 5 a.m. so I still have some time to catch up with my homework and go for  walk in Szczecin. The weather is so wonderful, it seems silly to stay at home!

Have you heard about "Top Gear" being suspended because of a conflict between Jeremy Clarkson and his producer?

Few years ago I bought Clarkson's book as a present for my father. Since then we read everything he wrote and we laugh so hard it's hard to breathe. What is more, we love "Top Gear". Since BBC Brit channel is available in Poland we watch it whenever I come to Szczecin. Even right now, the moment I'm writing this post, I'm watching it. It's hard to focus beacause I'm laughing all the time, but it's worth it. It's raining outside, it's terribly cold and it really cheers me up.

I know Jeremy Clarkson is a very controversial person. You may find him racist or pretentious but there's one thing you have to admit - this guy is really intelligent. Personnally I prefer James May and I can't imagine Top Gear without Hammond, but without Clarkson this show does not exist.

We'll see what happens to the show in the future. Clarkson is  probably very difficult person to work with and I'm not trying to say that his innocent, but on the other hand I'd love for them to make things work and let us watch new episodes.

If you see me this week at the university (I'm finally back, so there's a chance we'll see each other) and I seem sleepy, or even unconscious, I have an explanation : House of Cards is finally back!
Netflix did a very stupid thing releasing all the episodes at once. I'll probably finish watching them by the end of this week.
I don't watch many tv series, they are very time consuming and addictive and I don't even look for new ones so that I wouldn't be tempted to watch them all day long. Anyway, once my mom was watching HoC on the TV and I couldn't resist. I even organised House of Cards marathon and I watched it all night. So now the time has finally come for the third season and I watch it whenever I can. Many people think it's silly, not realistic and very "American", but I don't care, I watch it anyway.

Lately I haven't been posting and new words, so today a little longer list :

abjure - to reject, renounce (To

acerbic - biting, bitter in tone or taste 

acumen - the ability to think clearly and make good decisions

antipathy - a strong dislike, repugnance 

aspersion - a curse, expression of ill-will

assiduous - hard-working, diligent

blandish - to coax by using flattery 

boon - a gift or blessing

burnish - to polish, shine 

cacophony - tremendous noise, disharmonious sound 

calumny - an attempt to spoil someone else’s reputation by spreading lies

I'm slowly turning into an insomniac. It's driving me crazy, but on the other hand check out what I found five minutes ago!

http://quizlet.com/13731924/scatter


I tried googling stuff like "list of the most difficult words" and I accidentally came across this great site. I don't want to waste too much time googling cute kittens or other silly stuff (Internet is a time-consuming creature!), that is why I started to google some linguistic-related features, Enjoy!

I'm writing this post on my way to Szczecin (having a mobile internet finally pays off - I've never used it until today, I can save some time and take a rest when I get home). Normally I prefer to read books and listen to the music, but this time I came up with an idea for a post and I want to share something with you immediately.
Last week I bought a book called "Runners life"in our cafeteria (that's what I love about this place, every time I go there I have an instant need for lecture). This time I made a great choice, this book is just perfect!
I like running from time to time. I'd love to develop my running skills but every time I try to improve and run more, I immediately get sick and need to stay in bed for at least two days. That is why I find my latest lecture so interesting. This book was written by a runner, and by runner I mean a guy who has been running his whole life and really know what it's all about. He gives some very practical clues how to improve and how to work on your body. I don't need any source of motivation because running is so awesome I can't imagine my life without it, but if you need to find a reason to get out of bed and force yourself to get sore muscles, sweat and pain, you will find it in this book.

There's so much going on lately that I have no idea what to write about this week, and since our test is coming I've decided to combine writing a post with my learning process. I prepared some words that I find really hard to memorise and I want to share them with you. I don't know how on earth am I going to learn them by heart and recall them tomorrow, apparently authors of our workbook did a great job when they decided to put together such ridiculous words as creaking or crackling. So there you go : 

with no regard for reality check  - it's not that hard, my only problem is to memorize the preposition

staggering - I was proud enough to learn such sophisticated words as "astonishing" of "bewildering" and there's another synonym, even more difficult to learn

dwindling and dwelling - come on! they are so similar, I keep repeating "dwindling resources" but than some stupid voice in my head changes it again into "dwelling resources" - I'm pretty sure sth like this does not exist

implement and impending - well this is just mean. I know they aren't even the same part of speech, but still, they are so hard to learn.

trickle - I don't even know how to name it in Polish, there are few words describing it, but all of them seem inadequate

and finally, my favourite : 

creaking and crakling - I try to link one of them up with eating and another one with a monster coming out of a wardrobe and doing a creaking sound, but they still make me go crazy