So the contest took place yesterday at 10 in the morning. Difficulty was a bit higher than I expected. There were 50 closed questions in which 4 answers were chooseable but only one was correct. 22 questions were mostly about idioms. That was the hardest part. Another 23 questions were about grammar which I liked as it was not too hard. In the end there was short article with 5 questions included which turned out to be the easiest part of the contest.

Today scores were announced. It was possible to get 50 points. I forgot to check how many people participated but it was about 70-80. Only top 10 of them qualified to the final.

I got 2nd place. Comparing to last year it's better score as I had 4th place then and in the final 4th place which let me win really decent headset. I did not expect such score. I was a bit afraid I wouldn't get to the final part because of lack of knowledge yesterday as I didnt now meaning of some words. My score is 36 points which is 72% correct answers. My mate with top score had 41 points. There were few persons that had 35 points so if I had made 2 more mistakes I wouldn't have been so high.

The final will take place in a month. This time it will be about conversation between me and examiner. I hope I'll have some luck while choosing subject of conversation. Last year there were valuable prizes for 1st-4th place. And pendrives, t-shirts, pens etc for 5-10th. This year the main award is tablet. I'll post when I get through.

Cya ; ]

I haven't been visiting my blog since May last year so I decided that's high time to update my blog.

I've just read my last post in which I wrote about how my last english contest finished like. There is another another that will take place on Wednesday which means it's 4 days left. There will be 2 parts just like last year. First part focused on choosing the right answer from examples marked as ABCD. To qualify to the other part at least 10th place has to be achieved. Last year there were about 130 people writing it. Many of these were there because they had nothing better to do therefore people who organise that contest decided to let less people participate this time. I have no idea how many people is gonna be trying to make it to the final but I'm sure it won't be as many as it used to be.

Final which is 2nd part will take place in April. In that part there will be eye to eye conversation with one of 3 examiners. Final consist of 2 tasks. First one is just like polish matura exam. In fact it's enough to say 5-6 sentences and it's done. Second part is worse than the previous one. It's kind of conversation between you and the person examining you. The subject is real life related. Last time I had to discuss about proper ways of careers for women. I think I've read too much from piece of paper that I prepared while before as I had 4 mintues to prepare answers to questions. The guy (my friend) that had quite problems speaking fluently got 2nd place then. I was answering questions way more flunt than him but I read too much from that paper and I think that made my place worse than it could be. The main problem wasn't how to say some things but what to say. Sometimes it's harder to make up something than translate it.

I'm also thinking of passing certificate FCE this year and CAE maybe another year or in near future.

At first I'll write some about final of my English contest.

So it had place on Friday about 10 days ago. I came to college a bit earlier to make sure what time it was gonna be. 10 finalists were supposed to be there at 9 a.m. I went to maths lecture and left it ten to nine o'clock. There was also my friend that got into final so we went together. We were told we have to go one by one and it doesn't matter who goes first so we could choose. As first went guy who already participated in that thing year ago. Out of 10 people there were mostly persons from second and even third year. Only I and my friend were the youngest.

I went inside as ~4th person. The system was similar to matura exam. I got a piece of paper with two questions and a piece of paper to write on.I sat at the table near committee so I could prepare. I had about 5 minutes. There were 2 subjects.

The First one was a bit hard. That subject was called " Suitable careers for women. - discuss ". In the begining I got a bit confused. Finally I wrote like 8-10 sentences. I wrote there that women can be directors, can work at cloth shops etc. The problem wasn't to translate it all but to think of something. I said like 8 sentences and then got stuck. It's hard to say so much informations about such subject. Fortunately people that sat in committee helped a bit too.

The second task was way easier. There was written " Your friend invites you to his birthday party but his sister doesn't like you. You hesitate. ". That subject sounded a bit like matura and I had no problems with it.

At 1 p.m. we were told our scores. I got 4th place. I was lucky because that place was the last better rewarded than others. Everyone got t shirts, pens and 4gb pendrives.

1st place: camera + pendrive 8gb
2nd place: "outer " 640 GB hard drive + pendrive 8GB
3rd place: good loud speakers + pendrive 8GB
4th place: decent " 3D " headset + pendrive 8GB

The sound comming from this headset is way better than from my previous one. You can hear " bass " effect while listening to music.


Now a little about my life. So the weather is great lately. It has been like that for a week or even a few days more. It's mostly sunny and warm. Now there're easters so I got a lot of free time. Therefore I ride my bike everyday.
Too bad I've got bad luck lately. I went riding like 6 times and 3 times my wheel got out of air. I bought also new tyres lately so its way better now. Everything works ok and even the bike rides a bit faster. New tyres are much better than old ones. These are really quite and it's possible to ride faster.


That's everything I wanted to write. Take care.

Bye : )

As I already wrote in my previous I participated in english contest over a week ago. Scores were shown the day after in the evening. I went to see my score on Monday and I got nicely surprised. Out of 102 people writing the test 10 advanced further. In fact there were 11 ppl as few guys/girls had the same scores. It was possible to get 50 points. I had 42 and got 4th place. 1st and 2nd place had 45 points. One of the winners is a guy who I was at another english contest year ago. We were chosen by our teacher then when we were still in higher school.

The final is going to be in the middle of April. I think I've got to study english some when I got time I might win something. If I move forward just one position I've got a huge chance to get a reward. Guy on 3rd place had one point more and the 5 th one had 39 pts ( 3 less ) than me. I'll see how it goes soon.

Take care

I'll write some about February nad March.

My winter holidays started in the beginning of February and lasted 3 weeks. It was a bit booring period of time. When there is no college there is sometimes really nothing to do especially when the weather outside really sucks. As far as I remember it was quite cold. I hoped in January it would be a bit warmer but it wasnt. Shouldn't have expected much from the middle of the winter. On average it was like -5 degrees outside. So in fact I spent my time at home mostly.

On 21st of February college did start. Our schedule changed a lot. Now I've got to stay till 4:30 pm on Mondays and the same on Tuesdays. hopefuly on Tuesdays its like once we finish at 11 o'clock and another week 4:30 pm. 3 days left are way better. I finish 12 am, 2 pm and 10:30 or 12 o'clock.

There're few more lectures. We got no longer TI or drawing sketches. We got few new lectures such as calculating how strong is a metal part going to be against cutting, bending or extending. I've got to calculate forces and so. Honestly this is no easy task. A lot of calculating maths etc. Another lecture is about calculating heat and others things like that. I need to say now it got harder than it was in I semester.

Sometimes I think I should've gone to some political type of university instead of technical. However there're some advantages as well.

For example its not like we have to sit there all days long. On average its like 4.5-5.5 hours a day. I've got one friend that studies to being a nurse. She has to stay 10 hours or even more sometimes.

I had an english contest today. There were over 100 people writing this. Many of them went there just because they didnt feel like going to their lectures and some because they like it. Im wondering what my score is gonna be like. The test was quite easy. The scores will be shown tomorrow. The final is going to be in April and its going to be oral answer. Something thats harder than a normal test as you have to talk and think quickly. There is no time to hesitate so the probability of doing mistakes is way higher. I'll see how it goes.


Cya

This post gonna be long one.

So the way I decided to write here is really simple. I've got quite much free time nowadays so I entered my old english blog here. I still like english language. I entered that blog and noticed last post was written by me exactly 1 year ago ( 365 days ). Therefore I'm gonna brief here my life during last year. It changed a bit.

The last post was about my prom. I wrote it was perfect etc. That's right it was okay. Or a little better than ok I enjoyed that time a lot. It was like this most likely because my dance partner was the girl that I liked a lot. Too bad I had high hopes. Way too high. So I got sadly surprised in the end. Few days after the prom she told me she had someone. Maybe she had maybe not. Probably she did but I dont care anymore. I got a tough lesson for future. It has been almost a year and I still think of her sometimes. Fortunately not that much as in the begining. I don't understand women and I will never will. They send you false signals or play with out and finally tell the tough truth. Whatever it does not matter anymore.

Okay lets cut the crap. During February, March and April I was studying maths mostly. I remember I had quite busy Mondays. Was starting at 8 o'clock with school and ending a little before 10 p.m. with extra maths. Matura exams were starting in May so in the end of April I was studying polish language. I was reading briefs of books for few days. I did my best then haha. I remember on Sunday I was sitting reading for like 7-10 hours. I had luck on matura exam. 2nd subject was about book that I had in the last year so I wrote about it and somehow passed that part. I got 41% and 40% for oral answer in polish language part.
English matura test wasnt hard at all. Completed oral answer with 90% and the test with 96%. Maths wasnt that bad too. The score was 86%. However it's not like Im someone very good at mathematics. They made the test quite easy. Many of my mates didnt pass it though.

So holidays started for me with the end of matura. It was on 12nd May ? Something like that. I remember I was riding my bike often in the end of April. In May I was doing the same. Had a lot of spare time. I remember I was quite bored with it. I was relaxing at home during 3 weeks in May and 3 weeks in June. On 22nd and 22rd June me and my classmates had test to get " technical mechanician " title or whatever its name is. I got the scores 2 months later. I was nicely surprised. I passed it. My score was 76% while 75% was needed. So had a bit of luck haha.

I decided to get some work this summer. I did have 4,5 months of holidays this time. I got my work in June. It was my first serious job ever. Not that bad though. I worked at " xero service ". All these machines inside were producing heat. That was bad thing. During this summer there were 3 weeks if Im not mistaken when there were over 30 degrees outside. In sun it was like 35. Inside the building it was still like 30. Hell on earth. Whats more interesing when it was 10-15 outside during the rain we had 25 inside. I worked with one 30 years old guy who was quite okay. Always smile on his face etc. And there was also a woman. She was about 45. As I worked on probation the salary wasnt too high. Its about seventy five percent of the lowest salary if u work like a normal worker. In the end of August I got moved to the bike shop because that was the place where I was oficially registered for probation time. I worked there for 2 weeks and had still 5 days of leave time left. So the 3rd week I spend on leave enjoying my free time. In fact the weather was terrible in the next week so couldn't even do much. I remember I was so happy on Friday the last day of work. It was on 10th of September. There was sun and I went for a ride with my bike.

During summer I also sometimes visited lake to sunbathe a bit. Sometimes my one friend was there with his parents and sometimes I was alone. The problem is the older you are the less friends there is around you. 2 of my mates left to work to Germany this summer. The rest didnt even feel like moving their asses out of homes.


In October I went to college in my city. Everything was new. I was afraid of it a bit in the begining. But people are really okay. No country people like in my old school. People here are lets say a bit smarter. We were almost 30 in October now its just 20. I expected some lecturers not to be nice people. Often you can hear that they don't really care about students. But here they are all fair people. Math's lecturer is the best one. We couldn't get better. He explains everything completely. That guy is really helpful.
If you understand math you won't have bigger problems passing that college.

There is also possible to get the scholarship. If I keep my grades on the level as it is now I'll get cash but not earlier than in October. I'll try to achieve it.


Now when I've written enough I'm done for some time.

Take care ; )

I started participating in extra maths lessons lately. On every Monday I've got 2h hours of extra maths and on Wednesdays another 2,5 hours. Let's hope it will worth it. I want to pass matura exam with a score above 60-70%. So far I had once 52% and another test was also above 50% but the 2nd was harder. So if I study it intensively I hope for some better score. The guy at maths lessons today was like a machine gun. He was explaining everything step by step but hell fast. There was sometimes not enough time to note everything down that he drew on the blackboard etc. In total I had today 3,5h of maths which is quite much. So I got back home a little before 8 p.m. and still I think it's better than sitting at home and wasting my time in the front of PC.

Okay winter holidays started. Yeah it sucks. But on the other side there is something different to do as sitting at school than wasting my time in front of computer.

And now about the prom. There can't be used any other word but perfect. It went excellent. Firstly I went for my dance partner. I bought her a beautiful similar to orange colour rose and gave it to her. I had to wait extra 20 minutes at her home till she got ready. But well it was worth it. She looked cute, thin with great make up. We were dancing for a lot of time, the food was great etc. It was a huge fun !

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