Validations: 6/9
Exams: 2/3

I passed the history and culture exam, though I thought I would get a higher grade... but oh well :P I never did get more than 3+ on all the history tests in high school, so a 4 at university is still good :) But it's kind of sad - I like history very much, when asked about something I can spin a fantasy tale about it, connecting it to lots of insignificant details, but when it comes to testing my knowledge, I always score a lot less than I thought I would. Eh, life :P

I have the exam from French tomorrow - can't say I'm really confident about it, but there isn't much I can do about it now... Should have learned more when there was time xD Wouldn't have to cram so much today xD

About my interview - if they want to work with me they will get in touch in the next two weeks, but I seriously doubt they will. I didn't do that well, besides I'm a nineteen year old university student with absolutely no experience xD Fat chance xD

And lastly - about Kurosagi the movie. Don't watch it, it's awful ;_; Stupid Shakespeare references, running around with katanas (where the hell did they come from, damnit?!), Yamapi looking as if he had just swallowed something disgusting, angsty scenes in a fake graveyard (wtf? why was Katsuragi in the damn tomb?! and why did Kurosaki stand above him with the katana?) and in the rain with poor Kurosaki crying his poor heart out (so stoopid, btw), absolutely no plotline for Tsurara (I mean, she was in five scenes or so, didn't say much, just stared sadly and smiled once, don't get what was so important about her to have the second place in the credits... I would have given the place to the ugly guy who played Katsuragi... but oh well, it's Horikita Maki. But Yamaki fans didn't get much to feed on either... xD). The saddest thing was that the angst was so oppressive that all the humoristic parts of the show were completely destroyed. Though I did kind of like the scene when Kurosaki had to escape from the elevator. And Kurosaki as Jack Sparrow was totally random xD

End of rant :P And yes, I'm a geek.

My hometown, Będzin in the southern Poland, is a very interesting city historically speaking. It has a fourteenth century castle, very early eighteenth century palace and dungeons supposedly built by the German during WWII. Before the war half of Będzin's population was Jewish and it was called the Jerusalem of Zagłębie (the district of several medium-sized cities in the area, bordering with Silesia). There are several remnants of those years - pictures of Jews and catholics living door to door with each other, photos of a beautiful synagogue that had stood near the castle (burnt during WWII), a small synagogue in a basement in the city centre, called The Mizrachi Synagogue and a nineteenth century Jewish cementary on the castle hill (sadly very neglected).

Recently there has been a major discovery in an old tenement-house in the city centre - it turned out that it used to be owned by a very rich Jewish family - the Cukermans - and that in one of the flats there used to be a private synagogue. The frescs had been covered by a layer of ugly plaster, though. My former high school (which on itself is a historical monument - it's been here from 1902 and many of its alumni fought both in the first and second world war) took the responsibility of bringing it back to its former glory and the students volunteer to clean up the walls and uncover the frescs. Even though I've gradutated, I'm helping a bit as well :) I love the history of my hometown and this is a wonderful way to involve myself in it... Feels really great :D