CULTURE PRESENTATIONS

(Or Getting Up Earlier Wasn't the Only Thing That Was Different That Day)

June 16 and 17. Two days of one presentation after another. I was actually surprised by how well this idea has worked out. Whenever my classes were filled with presentations in high school, everybody's attention would jump right out of the window and not come back until the break (and even then limp in very slowly). I don't think this happened here, at least not to me.

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT TIME ORGANISATION REAL QUICK

(Or Why the Lack of It Could Sometimes Be Better)

With out culture presentations approaching, another idea for blogging came up: we could write about which presentations we're planning to see and why. Yeah. We could. But these days, it's been all about planning. Plan your time, plan your studying, figure our when to take which exam, decide on your presentations... Just planning, planning, planning.

Of course organising your time is very useful and very helpful in more stressful times. I'm not against it. It's a matter of opinion, though. I don't hold time organisation in very high esteem. Perhaps because it's always come so easy to me that I've never had to do it consciously. Or perhaps it's simply because I know I would stray from any schedule I'd create for myself, and I really don't want to guilt-trip myself for doing something so entirely human.

UNTOUCHED BOOKS

(or In Defence of Books And Condemnation of Literature Classes (in Slovenia...))

I'm sure everyone's been forced to suffer through a few books they would never have picked up if they hadn't been forced to do so by their teachers. Right? Right. So you'll understand why Sara went and wrote about here. If you don't feel like reading, let me just sum up her main points:

• our school system fears we wouldn't see the 'classics' as God-given gifts and tries to do all it can to make sure we do see them that way;
• it focuses on the authors too much;
• even poking trivial literature with a ten-foot pole seems to be a mortal sin;
• discussing books and expressing opinions is not encouraged (except in essays. The ones that get graded);
• literature is taught, not discussed;
• giving us the opportunity to express our own opinion would actually help people appreciate the works more.

All right, now let me add my own two cents.