Looks like I'm first to write homework here. But it is also a good way to tell you how's it going.
1. My greatest achievement.
Well, there are only two things I'm really proud of, and it is not my relationship with foreign musicians. :) The first thing is my participation in a student-change programm called FLEX, maybe someone heard about it. It is a annual competition of puipils of 9-11 form to get a chance to study 1 year in America. I was in 9th form then and firstly for me it was only a chance not to go to school, but I was really shocked when I was among 69 people out of 1000 who passed the first step of competition. I was on rehearsal that day, I was sitting behind my drums and thought 'Holy cow, I really can fly to America! I'm just a girl from a little town in the asshole of the world, I can fly to America!' Second step was really difficult - it contains 1,5 hours of listening, 40 minutes for grammar part and 1 hour to write 2 essays. I was absolutely sure that I failed; but then they called again and invited me to the interview! They picked 39 people and I was among them! My mom started to panic, but before she was saying 'Yeah, yeah, it would be great for you to visit America!', lol. But I failed at 3rd tour, I knew it when there were many other problems, and I wasn't so upset. But there was a time I really wanted to win, it was my idea-fix. And I thought it was really funny when me and my boyfriend was sitting in the park, I was crying on his shoulder and saying 'Will you wait for me, say it, will you wait for me for one year?' Lol, it looked like I'm going to the Israeli army.
And the second thing I'm proud of - entering RSUH. My mood about it from the 9th form was 'I want to study here' then 'I'm too dumb for it :(' and it repeated till I stood near the university with my documents. And I was really proud to be a student of this university. I know that I'm not a good student but I love it. My laziness is just because of my character. And gigs. And alcohol. And reading wrong books. And one boy. And my friends who are crazy like me. Omg. xD
2. My opinion.
a) Scoold should pend more time teaching the skills people need to get a job.
Well, I agree, but I don't think puipils need it. They are kids, they want to explore the world and I don't think it's right to say children 'YOU NEED TO GET A JOB, YOU NEED TO GET A JOB, YOU NEED TO GET A JOB' since they started to study at school.
b) Education is basically a social expierence. The atmosphere is the most important thing.
Yes, that's true, but knowleges is not less important. If a person grew in right atmosphere and also is smart, it's great, isn't it?
c) There should be no private education. All children should attend state schools/universities.
Nooo! If a child has some problems with health or mind, he must study privately, because it can be very difficult for him to attend school.
d) The purpose of secondary education is to prepare you for life.
That's so damn true! I remember myself, I became totally different from a child I was before.
e) Examination results are the most important aspect of education.
Oh, no! I slept at luterature lessons, but I've got a 91 out of 100 for my exam. It's not equal, right?
f) Academic achievement depends mainly on your teacher.
Aaaaand it's wrong again! Your achievement is your achievement. Yes, good teacher is priceless, but at the end there will be only your thoughts and your work.
g) Teachers should be paid according to the exam results of their students.
Ahahah, there were rumors in our school that teachers will be paid like that, but if there was true, our russian language and literature teacher would get no money. :D No, it's wrong, because there can be a situation when teacher works with student like damned but there's no result because student is very lazy and silly.
h) Sport is the mot important subject at school.
For P.E. teacher it may be right, lol.
3. My favorite design.
I can't understand what it means. I can find something favorite in everything!
4. Interesting event, that happened to me.
Sooooo, I'd like to tell you about my last adventure - mini-tour following american southern-hardcore band Every Time I Die and my favorite alcoholics from Moscow - Grizzly Knows No Remorse.
Every GKNR show is like a kind of holiday - our crew comes together, I was very glad to see everyone! Cristy brought a birthday present for Vitya, and Vanya brought whisky... Well, we expected bigger crow at such king of show. But I didn't care - we danced with GKNR and were happy. Every Time I Die has the best first concert song ever - to begin with 'Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space' means that hell begins in the first second. Imagine crazy croud that shout at the top of their lungs 'I WANT TO BE DEAD WITH MY FRIENDS!" Amazing! I wanted them to play my favorite 'Champing At The Bit' but they refued. :( I kissed the vocalist in his cheek! My list of kissed-in-cheek-vocalists is filled with one more guy! (before there were singer of Norma Jean, The Chariot, Caliban and maybe someone else, I can't remember now). After a show we took autographs and some pictures with ETID members. They are so funny:
Me: We are going to see you in St. Petersburg tomorrow!
Vocalist: Are you sure? Do you really want to see us tomorrow?
He warned me, oh, he warned me...
Grisha: We will be in St. Petersburg tomorrow!
Bassist: Oh, we too!
:D
After that we stopped to drink some beer with GKNR to share our feelings. And I'm still ashamed how they caught up their train - thiers was earlier that ours, but we left them earlier. O_o
In the train there was KOLYAN, ahahah, I dunno where Radmir got hem, but he looked at me like a pick-up master, I was in danger, lol. He told us about his work on a plant, why does this kind of people think that we are interested in their work? :D Andrew told me after that GKNR had the same creatures with them, we decided that they are coming in St. Peter to become gentlemen, because our and their ways home were quiet and peaceful.
After our arriving I called gyus to invite them to my favorite pub, but they were already drunk, shouting 'ZHENYA EATS SHIT!' and other uncensored things. To be honest, after such kind of calls I really understood how I love them all.
But we didn't get my favorite either - Radmir ate at some strange eatery, I had a breakfast (which was also a dinner and a supper) at Burger King, Grisha ate at Coffee House. So we headed to the craziest street of this city - Dumskaya street, where we met some friends of mine, drank some beer and headed to the club. There I saw my best friends Marina and GKNR who were yet drunk. We crowded together, drinking, laughing and talking really loud. Zhenya listed me as a guest for this event, so I passed in the club just with a question 'Who is he in a band?'. Omg, I know about them more than someone could know! We spend so many time together! Oh, and there was a dialog between me and Zhenya:
-They asked me who are you in a band.
-Did you say I'm a vocalist?
-No, I said you're the drummer.
The fun is in fact, he plays guitar in GKNR. :D
I bought ETID t-shirt while I was in GKNR merch and the seller from ETID crew gave me hightfive for it. :) But there was a time for GKNR to go to the stage! It was really pity that there were less dancing people than in Moscow, but it was ok anyway. I liked bar in the club, low prices and friendly barmen. :) And there were Every Time I Die again! And we died another time! :D I think, at least 10 of my 16 bruises are from St. Peter. The crowd became crazy again. I appeared with my table asking to play 'Champing At The Bit' again, but then the vocalist OMG HE ATE IT. For knowing people it was really shock. After show there was taking puctures again and I got a written promise that they'll play CATB next time! Then we said goodbye to everyone and headed on the train home. I will be really miss ETID. :( On the railway station we met Andrew, the singer of GKNR, Ramirez - their manager and Sasha, he's thei session drummer. We drank and they left for train that was earlier than ours again. The rest of the group stayed in St. Peter for one more day. It was really painful to come back from alcomusical madness to the cruel reality. :(
5. Questions I would ask a person from a past.
Well, I was thinking a lot about whom it would be, and to my great surprise I'd like to meet Curt Cobain and spend with him a day showing him our music, our musicians and our events. Dunno, maybe he'd shooted himself again.
