youth and age

                In my opinion such intergenerational activities as were mentioned in the text in Lithuania will have an opportunity to succeed in the far future, but not now, at first we have to change our opinion about old people.  Society thinks that being old means being already dead, this ridiculous attitude needs to be changed.

                It is hard to predict will youth and age agree or not? I think it depends on certain personalities. There are  a few old people who have a modern atitude and they get on very well with youth, but still majority of old age people are very disappointed with youth. However, I think that this is almost impossible for them to agree, because youth and age are separated by different interests and needs.

                Although, if both sides would try to be more tolerant towards each other,  would not judge each other for nothing and would show some interest in each other’s hobbies  then maybe there would be a possibility for them to become even friends. 

Mixed marriages. Is it possible?

Nowadays almost every marriage is mixed. Lithuanians marry polish people, black people get married to white ones and Jewish people create families with Muslims. When people fall in love they do not care about all those differences between them and their partners. Usually when Lithuanian marries Polish or Russian there are no big issues or disagreements between spouses and marriage is quite successful. However, there appear a lot of very big and serious problems after wedding when Lithuanian girl marries for example Turkish or another man from Islam religion country. Differences between partners make marriages like this disastrous.
 To start with, mixed marriages between people with similar traditions and the same religion for example, polish and lithuanian, are usually successful. In Lithuania we have a lot of examples of marriages like that. People get married and they have no problems because they celebrate the same celebrations, they believe in the same god, they have the same traditions and their attitude towards the family is very similar. There are no issues in their marital lives caused by some sort of traditional, religious or cultural differences. Although, when Turkish man marries Lithuanian girl there appear very big amount of serious problems and marriage usually falls apart.
Secondly, marriages between people who belong to different religions for example Islamic and Christian fail almost all the time. There are a lot of reasons for that to happen.  Different traditions, celebrations, habits, understanding of family. Lithuanian girls cannot get used to Islamic lifestyle when they get married Muslims. They gave to give up on their parents, forget about their friends, the only thing they have to do is to raise children. They even have no right to work most of the time. Such marriage can succeed only if people love each other and are ready to sacrifice, otherwise marriage will break down.
The last but not least thing worth mentioning is that the most important thing for marriage to succeed is pure and real love. If two people love each other there is no religious, traditional or cultural difference which could harm their marriage. When there is real feelings people learn how to make compromises. They learn how to adapt to each other and make right decisions. It is important to keep together and do not let even parents to interfere between you two.  So, even completely different people from completely different environments can be happy if they want to and try to very much.
All things considered, I think that it is possible for mixed marriage to succeed. In spite of all difficulties if there is love, people will always find a way to be happy together. Of course no one says that it will be easy. Only strong and brave, those who are ready to give up everything for their family can pass all those exams which life provides us.

RECEIPE for a successful relationship between a man and woman:

•  A lot of trust.
• All the time helping to each other.
• A big interest in each other.
• Portion of forgiveness.
• Providing a bit of space to each other.

First of all, the most important thing you have to do to improve your relationship with your partner, is to trust him. Without trust, there will be no relationship at all, believing in other person provides harmonious relationship. Also, if you want to succeed, you have to show interest in his wants and needs. Care of your partner and try to help him if he has some sort of problems. You cannot say that you have no time or intense to listen to his personal issues. If there is some kind of disagreement between you two you have to try to forgive and understand that there is no perfect people in the world. You have to behave with him like you would like him to behave with you. And the last but not least thing worth to mention is that you cannot ban your partner to see his friends or have his hobby. It is important to realize that it is impossible to be with someone all the time, because you will get bored of each other. I think these are the most important things you have to do to improve your future relationships. Good luck!

Relationships in literature

Todays DAK lecture presentation:
http://www.failai.in/show/F/B92BAF868/Presentation.pptx

Monday at university

Monday. Hardest, laziest, longest and the most sleepy day of the week. I don’t really know a person who like Mondays.

                So, today me and my roommate overslept as usually we do on Mondays. It is becoming some kind of our tradition. Then we missed the bus and we were late for the LTA lecture. That lecture was quite easy  if not mentioning the fact that I was almost sleeping. The bad thing was that none of us had a text , I don’t think our lecturer appreciated that… after LTA we had this huge  scary grammar test. As I read that Aurelija decided to keep quiet about that test, I decided to follow her example. I don’t think that I can say something positive about grammar test at all. So, I won’t swear. After that “nightmare” we had DAK lecture. I can say that finally there I felt like in heaven. Ironical, but yes I did. DAK was unusually relaxed and calm lecture. I wish it would be like that all the time. It’s a  silly dream which will never come true. There is one very good quotation which fits here very well “science has a bitter roots but its fruits are sweet”. That’s all I wanted to write today. Bye!

P.S. Don’t forget about this lovely presentation which is coming on Wednesday.

What is friendship?

                  Do you remember your childhood? When there was no question who is your friend and who is not. All those kids, playing outside in the yard, were our friends.  Now when we are grown up all those bosom friends disappeared, they left somewhere in the past. That means that the time changes everything. New life period brings new friends. However, only true friendship will pass all those exams which life brings to us. Great friendship is an unbreakable connection between two people who understand each other from a half of word.

                To start with, I want to say that all of us have friends, family members and acquaintances. It is very hard to live alone,all by yourself. That’s why we want to have a shoulder to cry on. Someone with whom we could share our thoughts, excitements, worries and joys. The thing is that we cannot tell all our secrets to one of the fair-weather friends.  It is very important to know how to recognize real friendship from the fake one. I do not really believe the people who say that they have a lot of friends. It is impossible to have more than one or maybe two real friends because it takes a lot of time to create long-standing friendship. 

                 Although, there is one very old and good quotation “show me who is your friend and I will show who you are”. True friend is like your twin.  Faithful friend is the one from whom you can learn a lot of things, he is the one who will show you only good examples. If your friendship is true, then there will be no circumstances under which you would give up on each other. If it happens that means that your friendship was fake. There are a lot of different friendships in the world. We always look for that great friendship which life will provide us like a miracle. It is important to know that we have to be open and ready to sacrifice for the real friendship.

                  And the last but not least, you have to realize the main idea about true friendship, that if you want to gain something you have to give something back too.  You have to forget egoism and start to care about your friend’s destiny, do some useful things for him, try to help when he has a problem and do not expect to be rewarded. It is exactly what real friends do for each other. If after all those things which you have done for your friend you feel satisfied, that means that your friendship is true and very strong.

                All things considered, I want to say that it is a very serious step to start calling friendship a relation between you and other person. You have to be sure that he will be with you through thick and thin. It is important to have a hope that your friendship will survive all those ups and downs. And the most esential thing for you is to feel ready to become a loyal friend and start a new friendship.

Like a teacher

Today at the DAK lecture we have started new topic called “LOVE”.  At first we had to choose one of the quotations about this amazing feeling, I choose quotation “Love is like a war, easy to begin hard to end” by unknown author.  According to that quotation I wrote a paragraph in which I have outlined my opinion about it. It was not very hard to write about love. Maybe, because it is the time when I think a lot about it…However, after we wrote our paragraphs we switched them.  Then we had to correct and comment on them at the end lecturer took it from us.

All things considered, I don’t really think that I am ready to correct works of my group mates (grammar, spelling etc.).  I don’t feel like I know it better than them and I was afraid that I will make it even worse, with more mistakes. I quite enjoyed when I had to comment on that, because I like expressing my opinion. Lecture made me feel like a teacher and that was really exciting!

blogging?

I knew about  bloging  for a long time, I  was reading  some  blogs too, but I never thought that I will writte one , I had no time for it and maybe couldn't dare to start writting.Now I see that this is not so scary  as it seemed at first. For me it is very new and interesting thing. I  hope that it will improve my English skills either. It is  also fun to read my group mates blogs and comment on them. It is very exciting to share opinions and thoughts. Now I can't say that I am a good blogger but maybe in the future i wll become one...:)

Learning to write

The article about how to improve writting skills which  I found  seems very usefull. First of all, I think that it is very good to have favourite author because he may inspire you and  help you to find your writting style. Style is one of the most important things in writting. Good style atracts people it also shows your personality and your atitude towars the life and other things.Second important and useful thing which this article sugests to do is to let other people to criticise your essays. In my opinion, it is not bad when someone, with experience, tells you what is wrong with your essay, you do not have to fell offended, because critic will help you to learn from your mistakes.And the last but not least thing article suggested is to create your daily diary or a blog , I think it is the most practical way to improve your writting skills because the more you will write the more experience you will gain.