Autor: Andrea_Beatrix

Cinghiz Aimatov – Djamilia, o iubire clandestină este o recomandare de lectură pe care am primit-o și, până la acest roman, recunosc că nu citisem nimic de niciun reprezentant al acelei țări.

Cinghiz Aimatov – „Djamilia”, a clandestine love is a reading recommendation that I received and, until this novel, I admit that I had not read anything from any representative of that country.
Because of this, I wanted to not give up the chance to broaden my literary horizon, trying something new. And I wasn’t sorry!

Cinghiz Aimatov (1928-2008) was one of the most prominent Kyrgyz writers, embodying a literary voice of the Kyrgyz nation, reminding me a little of Octavian Goga.

From the very beginning, this reading fascinated me with its well-chosen words and its harmony, being a living matter, taken from the writer’s soul, placed on the page, and from there in the mind of the reader. The coherence of the novel is overwhelming, each paragraph paints the events much more than it seems at first glance; everything is impregnated in the reader’s mind, so that you can easily see everything, and feel everything, transported in the fascinating steppe, in the middle of that Kyrgyz community during the war.

Aitmatov captures with the help of talent and the simplicity of the sentences the deep love story that has at its two ends a submissive married Djamilia and a mysteriously wounded soldier, Daniar.

In Soviet Kyrgyzstan, during World War II, there are hard times; the men sent to the front had taken the path of the armies, and the women had to do the work of the men and work side by side with those who remained at home, where the traditions inherited from their ancestors are strictly observed.

In a village where all the inhabitants were related, Djamilia also lived in her mother-in-law’s house, a lively girl, always cheerful, with a smile on her face. Her mother-in-law, a well-groomed housekeeper, sees in her the one who will take her place when the powers that be leave her.

Djamilia and Seit (the younger brother of the man with whom Djamilia had married 15 years old) go daily to the grain warehouse with the cart full, to carry the grain quotas for the soldiers’ food, being also in charge of taking care of his sister-in-law.

The whole novel is told from the perspective of the lover Seit, a teenage painter, who remembers the buds of this unfulfilled love, as he looked at it.

Everything takes a different turn when a crippled soldier, Daniar, returns to his native village and is assigned to work with the two. He was born in that village, but left there as a child after being orphaned, and was now looked upon with pity by the villagers.

The two joke a lot about Daniar, make fun of him, being very interesting how the love story between Djamilia and Daniar grows: a look, a gesture, a joke, a song – all under the eyes of Seit, who becomes an accomplice, promising to protect Djamilia at all costs. It is also interesting to dive into that depopulated mystical village, where the mountain meets the desert to give birth to pure love.

In time, the two fall in love, instilling condemnable feelings between them, but they live the best moments of their lives, trying to forget the hard work and get over the unspoken love as if they were living in peacetime.

Eventually, the two lovers run away together, before Djamilia’s husband comes from the front, leaving Seit alone to face the anger of his family and the village, with a sharp pain and a crazy longing to start. painted, to put the two on the sheet of paper, painting the greatest unfulfilled love of his life.

I won’t tell you more, I’ll let you discover this amazing story for yourself. I tried to convey a part of what I gathered in my soul after reading, the enthusiasm and the turmoil that the book subjected me to.

I’m sure it will attract you from the first pages! I hope you will feel that joy that I felt!

Read Djamilia and you will discover what I could not say

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2020/03/16/andrea-podaru-o-iubire-clandestina/

„I am afraid of the day when technology will replace human interactions. The world will have a generation of idiots „- said the brilliant Albert Einstein.

I notice this day by day! We all become addicted to technology.
The bottom line is that we are aware of this and we can’t give it up! Smartphones, smart watches, laptops, tablets, smart TVs have entered our lives and minds and we can no longer part with them.
Not to mention the smart traffic lights, the smart cars, which no longer need a driver, the refrigerators that notice what foods are running out and order them themselves from the Internet, the smart coffee makers, which are waiting for us in the morning with the coffee made…
Where will we end up in this style? Why is technology so important to us? Probably because we are surrounded by her at every turn!
We always use technology, which is in all the trivial things in our lives – from the TV remote control to the microwave to the objects we consider truly technological: mobile phones, laptops, smart watches, etc. All have the role of making our lives easier and more convenient, so technology gets to control our lives.
In this way, we should not be surprised that we become addicted to technology. The ease with which we perform tasks, the time saved, the simplicity, the accessibility, the lightness, all these are addictive, all these make technology a drug!
Technology itself is not addictive; it’s not the chips, the video cards, the LEDs or the processors that are addictive! Intelligence is addictive!
We are always busy and always as far away from ourselves and our own spiritual needs as possible. We forget that we need time to dream, to love, and to feed our souls.
We don’t have time for each other, because the dependence on social networks, on games, phone checks, likes, comments steals our time we could spend with our loved ones. It has become so common that we wake up unconscious with our smartphone in hand.

Social networks aim to bring people together, but they manage to keep us away from each other. They do not improve our social skills, but they isolate us.

After that, we end up saying that somewhere, something, someone stole our time. Isn’t that weird?

Since smartphones took over millions of people, inter-human relations have suffered. Although they sit around the same table, friends prefer to push their phones, instead of socializing with those around them. This generation was described by Albert Einstein as „a generation of idiots”!

And the situation is not rosy at all. Teachers complain about the declining level of students, the subjects studied are reduced, the assessment scales have been lowered intentionally, employers complain about the lack of general culture… The new generation does not even know how to write correctly in Romanian!

What happened to the man? Did it sink virtually?

Can we get better? Or will we overtake technology in intelligence?

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2020/03/12/andrea-podaru-ziua-de-care-einstein-s-a-temut/

Love is an inexhaustible subject, and no matter how much you write about it, you want to write more and more.

Love is such a magical and beautiful word, a pure, deep, sublime feeling, full of affection and appreciation, a paved road to eternity. Love is unique and irreducible, it never repeats itself!

When you ask yourself what love is, you often doubt, trying to find answers in others, but very few people understand what love really is and what the real power of love is.

You don’t understand her, you don’t know what she means, you don’t know where she is taking you… But you can follow her, you have to have patience and self-control. Before you receive, you must offer love, you must learn to truly love, without ever asking for anything in return for your love. It takes time to grow, grow and flourish. She lives only as long as she thinks she is eternal! You can’t control it, you can’t dominate it, you can’t use it to gain wealth, power or influence; you cannot use it as a weapon to oppress others or to divide and conquer.

There is no magic recipe for pure love! Self-giving will take you where you want to go!

For true love you fight without mistakes, without lies, without reproach.

All you can do is obey, follow her and learn from her!

It is a feeling that does not adapt to your desires, that confronts you, challenges you and sometimes you feel that it is too much, and sometimes it comforts you.

That means real love, which reorients your life!

It is, in fact, the only thing humanity has to offer!

It’s so different from the love you hear in conversations!

Many say that true love is wonderful and that they love with all their heart, but they have never received an answer to the love offered.

But if you truly loved, why do you suffer that he or she did not love you? Don’t you know that true love never expects anything in return? As long as you suffer because of love, it means that you have not yet known true love.

People are afraid to love, they all want to avoid extreme disappointment. They are not open to this. They are driven by fear, a deepening fear… so their love is unknown.

Although it’s so easy to love! Love is not a choice, but a necessity, which makes us live beautifully; it is the will of God being expressed through us.

Then we give up… We fall in love with nothing and we witness how this „nothing” becomes everything and you can no longer refuse it because you would refuse your chance at happiness. You must have that person! And it becomes a kind of addiction, it becomes the air you breathe.

The need for love is immense! You never think about love, but you need it all the time. All you need is love and everything will be fine!

That is why love is held in the highest place of honor! That’s why they sing about love, they write about it.

This is the power of great love; we need it in our busy life, full of activities, worries, worries, complaints. It’s not something you just add to life! It’s your life!

So find someone who will make you understand that time is not measured in hours, but in moments, that the heartbeat is not heard, it is only felt. Find someone who can read you and love you just as much.

Show your love, don’t talk about it! For true love is proved!

Einstein defined love in a unique way, saying that it is the strongest unseen force. And so it is!

„Love is the light that enlightens those who give and receive it. Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others. Love is power, because it multiplies all that is best for us and gives humanity the chance not to perish in its own blind selfishness. ”

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2020/02/16/andrea-podaru-puterea-iubirii/

A letter to a teacher from a mother in Bucharest, who is tired of seeing her child sitting at her desk and doing homework all day, has provoked the reaction of thousands of parents on social networks in recent weeks.

The number of likes, comments and distributions reached thousands in just a few hours, all having the same opinion.

The teacher gave the students homework to copy the lesson from the textbook. Violeta Nita, the mother of an 8th grade boy, sent a message to the teacher, asking him to reconsider his teaching.

Our parents have come to stop us from doing our homework! Even they got bored seeing us at the office, doing homework and learning.

All you have to do is look around and you will see parents accompanying their children to school, sad, anxious, bored and with dark circles in their eyes, some and some. Just as students are worried about the school curriculum, so are their parents, who are afraid that their children will not be able to perform at school and that they will fail.

And we, the students, know that without the sustained daily help of parents and meditators, we will not succeed.

The extremely dense school curriculum, the number of homework and homework steals even a little of our time with family. Parents come home from work tired after a day of work and become teachers, meditators for us.

Is it really that bad? The knowledge we accumulate at school should be a joy, but for us it becomes a torment, because everything becomes toxic, being forced to learn mechanically. Thus we end up forgetting everything when we went out the school gate, losing the start since the small classes, but also the chance to develop our thirst for knowledge.

I also recorded a parent’s opinion:„Although we, the parents, tend to jump in defense of our child at any time, at any time, this time I will not do it and I will not give justice to that lady. I would never make such a decision. And not because I wouldn’t move mountains for my child, but because a child needs to know that homework needs to be done, no matter what kind or how much.

Trying to spare your child to put in the slightest effort, to copy a few pages in a week, blaming a teacher for the school curriculum, established by the Ministry of Education, seems to me an inadmissible mistake.

After such mistakes, why do we still have expectations for teachers to fix our child who does not do his homework, does not learn and does not know where to start? ”

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2019/12/15/andrea-podaru-scrisoare-cu-nabadai/

Bb On the Digi24 website, the Minister of Education, Monica Anisie, states that the education system needs stability, programs that reduce the dropout rate and eliminate the „culture of plagiarism”.

The proposed minister says he will pay close attention to issues of social segregation, combating early school leaving, illiteracy, transportation settlement and the „School after School” program.

At the moment, we, the students, can only try to do what we want and what we like in a system that we do not want and do not like, due to the situation of Romanian education. We do not want to become graduates of the system we belong to after 18 years in the school benches.

Who uses ordinary and resigned people on the conveyor belt?

The overloaded schedule of students, with homework, homework, extracurricular activities and extracurricular activities, reduce the value of free time for rest, acting negatively on the needs of a child.Thus, the school curriculum should be adapted to the needs and specifics of the age.

First of all, I would change the education from the ground up, because you can’t build something good on a bad foundation. I would free the school curriculum from everything that cannot be put into immediate reality. It is useless to store information if we do not connect it to a real problem. I would make criteria that take into account the learning needs of the child. I would modify the curriculum, so as to involve a professional development, but especially a personal one (art classes, sculpture, music, ballet, dance, etc.).

For the children who come from needy families, I would provide food from the public budget, I would provide a financing that would bring the same result to the children as to the children who come from normal families.

I would organize summer schools for children without possibilities every year; thus, early school leaving would not be achieved.

The Romanian school proposes a patterned and monotonous thinking pattern, thus, it does not ensure our school success, being forced to go to meditations. In general, a teacher may like a subject or at least not hate it, through his teaching effort, so the stimulation of teachers would be very important, so that school success is not dependent on these meditations, or I would introduce support classes for students who did not understand certain topics in class. Maybe in
that way this stupid idea of meditation would disappear.

A child at school should be able to experiment, without fear of being judged, graded, despised, without training his mind. Many children are terrified that they will say something stupid and laugh at them, so they prefer not to say anything, becoming shy, submissive, resigned. Self-confidence would be very important.

School should be a place where you can go wrong without cutting your head.

We want to build a better and more beautiful world, not adapt to this sad world!

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2019/11/09/andrea-podaru-vrem-sa-construim-o-lume-mai-buna/

We have been looking at the moon for millennia, not knowing what our planet looks like, until 1968, when humanity first came to see Earth floating in space with NASA’s Apollo 8 mission.Since then, our perception and understanding of the planet has changed forever.
An art installation that perfectly mimics planet Earth, in a three-dimensional setting, on a single scale. and which allows us to see the Earth as if from space, was suspended on Wednesday evening, at the entrance to the passage from Piata Unirii in Oradea.
The creation, named after the Greek name of the deity who personifies the Earth -Gaia- was brought by APTOR (Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Oradea and Region) for Oradea FestiFall, Oradea Autumn Festival, the most important and long-lived festival of the city.
The creator of this work is the British Luke Jerram, who since 1977 has been practicing sculptures and live art projects internationally. Jerram has created a series of extraordinary art projects that have moved and inspired people around the world, learning from every work of art and continually reinventing his artistic practices.
The work is 7 meters in diameter and offers 120 dpi, showing details captured by NASA satellites on Earth’s surface, being 1.8 million times smaller than real Earth.
The installation aims to create a sense of general effect, which was first described by the author Frank White in 1987. On the presentation page of the work, the author writes that, viewed from 211 m, -Gaia- is exactly as he would see. one person Earth on the Moon.
-Gaia- was only exhibited in the Liverpool Museum, where people stood in line to see it, and in central Hong Kong.

„I HOPE THAT -GAIA VISITORS- SEE THE EARTH AS IF IT WERE FROM SPACE; AN INCREDIBLE PLACE OF BEAUTY AND PRECIOUS. AN ECOSYSTEM THAT WE URGENTLY NEED TO TAKE CARE OF – OUR OWN HOUSE ”(LUKE JERRAM)

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2019/10/05/andrea-podaru-gaia-planeta-noastra-intr-un-cadru-tridimensional/

Last days, I were read that a student jumped from the floor of the school where he is studying because he had taken a 4th grade in biology. I don’t even know which city, which high school it was from, but it doesn’t matter. The shock was too great for me to remember such details.

His and his parents’ luck was that his gesture did not turn into a tragedy, the boy was left with only a minor skull fracture.

Only he knows what was in his head! I do not condemn him, but it is certain that fear led him to make this gesture. Fear of school, fear of parents, fear of teachers? I can’t find an answer. Only he knows.

There are students who are scared by the low grades they get at school and by the reaction their parents may have, by the remarks that teachers can make, so that they end up making indescribable gestures.

I do not dispute that grades can change your life, for better or for worse, it all depends on how you are taught by your parents to manage your life, because there are things that can not always go well.

A student’s fear can be fueled primarily by parents who are overly demanding and forget that the fear they instill in their children leaves deep scars and will have repercussions. And some teachers blame themselves, fueling their parents’ frustration with various „remarks”: „Maybe, but he doesn’t want to, because he’s lazy” or „He doesn’t want to raise his hand to answer” or „He’s naughty.” There is also the fear of school, which can affect the future of the student, so there is disinterest, indifference, dropping out of school and labeling the school as hell.

Thus, from all directions, the student is finely chopped, instead of finding solutions to the problems he is struggling with.

We all want high marks, who says anything else, but the note does not always reflect reality. Some students get high grades just because their mother wants them to. Personally, I don’t feel compelled to get high grades, and my parents don’t argue with me when I get low grades (thank you for that!).

They explained to me from primary school that grades or grades are not important, but the accumulated knowledge. A low grade is not a tragedy, it can be corrected, no one excels in all subjects. „A child must be good everywhere” is a myth!

The fact that I can leave home quietly from school with any grade gives me inner peace, because I don’t feel stressed and I’m not afraid to tell my parents that I took 4 or 10. I’m not arguing, just encouraged to agree more pay close attention to the subject and correct my grade.

The subject is loaded from the preparatory classes, just when the children want to play, so the school becomes an enemy for them before they know it, because they simply cannot do what they like.

It is not the school itself that is the problem, but the way the courses are run. In Romanian schools there is a lot of theory and a little practice, the emphasis is on grades and not on the things we stay with. Everyone forgets that grades are just numbers that do not represent us, students or adults in the making. The school should prepare us for life, to have different activities from which to learn.

We all know that school curricula are made according to the law. There are some standards that need to be met, but school curricula are busy and poorly designed.

The pressure on the students’ shoulders in terms of high grades attracts fear, and this, in turn, can leave deep marks. Adolescents are not immune to fear, so they resort to incomprehensible gestures.

In this way, under pressure, the student feels compelled to learn in all subjects, without being able to focus on what he wants to study in the future. And if he can’t cope, he goes to the other extreme.

Does anyone really notice that some students need counseling, support, someone to help them realize that mistakes can be seen as opportunities? Making a mistake doesn’t mean it’s all over!

Dear parents, help your children understand that a low grade should not be seen as a tragedy. Don’t scold them! Do not have unrealistic expectations from your children, be proud of them, regardless of the note in the catalog! Don’t push them to resort to extreme gestures for a number!

Dear teachers, work on the students’ psyche, explain to them that you are with them and that the grade can be improved.

Only by working together, teachers and parents, can students be saved from hell, because the teacher is an extension of what is happening at home!

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2022/03/30/andrea-beatrix-doar-un-numar/

February 24, 2022…History is being written… And we live it on our own skin …

Until now, in Ukraine, people lived in peace as we Romanians still live today, although we do not know what will happen tomorrow. They lived badly, poor, but quiet! From the silence to the war, in just a few minutes.

People, who were busy with their business, suddenly found themselves in a war, having to pack up and run or fight. They also did not imagine that a war would take place in their home. But behold, from a quiet life in poverty, they suddenly experience the horrors of cruel war.

The words of Erich Hartmann, the most feared fighter pilot of World War II, describe exactly what is happening on the streets of Ukraine today:

„War is a place where young people, who do not know and hate each other, kill themselves, by decisions of elders who know and hate each other, but do not kill themselves.”

The young men, without any military training, are sent to the battlefield, in fierce battles, to fight with the same bizarre, bloodthirsty characters. From the computer games in which he had to kill his enemy and defend his territory, they found themselves in a real war with weapons, missiles, planes, nuclear bombs and many dead. This is what is always wanted in war: for people to slaughter each other, turning their souls into a bottomless pit.

Young people who until now did not socialize because of the computer and isolation, young people who did not know each other, who did not hate each other, are sent to the front to fight, where they have to kill innocent people, by order of some old people, because we live in a society run by the elderly, with decisions in favor of the elderly, and for the elderly it is logical and fair to obey the orders given by them.

The future of these young people is suffocating, and we will not find a young generation in Ukraine whose lives have not been destroyed by the Russians. The consequences are bad on all levels, because we live in a tyranny conceived by the elders, whose tentacles extend over all areas. The elders developed antibodies against any changes that would jeopardize the peace of their asylum. There are young „idiots” we send to the front to die, and there are „great” old men who give orders to those young people.

War is a total disaster, with terrible consequences: defeated or victorious. War, violence have never led to anything good!

Until now, only those who have lived through those moments of horror, who have passed in fear and hope, between life and death, have been able to talk about the war.

So far, we’ve learned about the war from books, movies, history classes. We have not been able to imagine the scale of the tragedy of war. Even so, watching TV every day, we are far from understanding what we experienced during the war: fear, death, haunting everywhere, despair, the drama of single families… we will never be able to understand until we live it on our own skin.

Why do we need war when we can have peace? Why do we need hatred when the soul allows us to love? By thinking rationally, both in war and in love, any conflict can be avoided if the parties give up the desire to conquer, the desire for power and the desire to dominate. You need to know when to put an end to both. By giving up pride, pride, violence, and war, we can invest in peace, for war does not define us!

Even in the midst of the toughest confrontation, „with the weapons of love, fierce wars can be avoided”, say the wise words of David Boia.

It is said that everything is allowed in love and in war! Although in war, as in love, there is no reason, but you give everything, without thinking about the consequences, that in the end there is only one winner.

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2022/03/16/68798/

The northernmost U.S. city, Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, Alaska, has said goodbye to daylight for the next two months, entering the annual phase of darkness, also called Polar Night, said Judson Jones, a meteorologist. CNN.
In the small town north of the Arctic Circle, with 4,000 citizens, the Sun rose for the last time on November 18 and will not appear until January 22, when the sun will rise again.
The climate of the city is very cold, being the cloudiest city on Earth.Scientists explain that the Polar Night is due to the fact that the Earth is tilted relative to the Sun.Polar night does not mean dark darkness, thanks to the phenomena of scattering light from the atmosphere and refraction.During the „day”, the Sun is below the horizon, so there is an indirect light coming from the Sun, however there is no direct light from the Sun.
This is not the only natural phenomenon that makes the city stand out. Another interesting natural phenomenon, called Polar Day, happens in the summer months, when the Sun is in the sky all day and all night.
Consequently, there is only one sunrise and one sunset per year in this city, the Sun rises at the spring equinox and sets during the autumn;

However, the inhabitants of the small town do not panic, as we panicked, at the mere false news, at some alarmist headlines, such as „Blackout in Europe” or „Europe, one step away from remaining in total darkness for days on end”, regarding a power outage across Europe for 14 days.
We believe that life ends without electricity for several days in a row. We start to despair, we prepare for the worst, we try to adapt, we reserve resources, although the „sensational” news was only spread quickly and thus created hysteria among people and online.
It all started with the Austrian Minister of Defense on September 30, who wanted to urge people to prepare for exceptional situations, instructing the population to know how to react in the event of a major power outage.
The information also reached the Romanian press and what was an assumption for the warning campaign in Austria, became a certainty for our press.
We know that this would affect everything from electricity sources in homes, shops, factories, to services such as telephony, internet, traffic lights, ATMs.
Disinformation experts say it’s a good idea to take a few steps to make sure we don’t create false information.

link: https://logopaper.com/2021/12/05/andrea-beatrix-orasul-cufundat-in-intuneric/

The practice of giving gifts is ubiquitous in every culture, country and home. Life itself is a catalog full of offers and gifts!

Especially the „big holidays” are times when we often give and receive gifts. The holidays are about wonderful moments, about moments you can’t wait to experience, to see the emotion and joy in the eyes of the person you are giving the gift to. The holidays are about love, hugs, hopes, feelings, people and smiles shared with those around you. The rest are just accessories!

At this time of year we have to buy gifts and it seems that even then our inspiration leaves us. And I, like many others, like to give… especially souls! I love to give something of my soul! At the same time, I love to receive a corner of the soul of those I love! I am sure that these moments of dedication will keep me warm in my soul, throughout my life! Giving up ennobles you!

At the same time, I am convinced that giving is the most beautiful and precious gift I can give! We believe that you are never happier than when you give, when you think of the other person’s wishes and dreams and help them to fulfill them.

Usually, most of the time, we go for generalized gifts: perfumes, cosmetics, decorations, sweets, a bouquet of flowers, a box of candy… We forget that most of the time, a sincere smile can work wonders in such The smile may matter more than the gift itself. A smile is a gift that I give to the souls of those to whom I give… a gift that cannot be bought with money, cannot be sold, cannot be pledged and will never lose its value.

I know that when I give from the heart, I do not alienate myself from that, because by giving, I add something good in another person’s life, and I also add something wonderful in my soul! Through dedication, I reinvent destinies, I rediscover myself, I learn to love, to see, to understand life!

People, even if they have material possibilities, need to receive gestures of attention in order to feel more special and fulfilled.

A warm look, a sincere hug, a handshake, a few words of praise and a simple thank you can change a person’s day. Sometimes they can make her better and bring her an oasis of happiness when nothing seems to make sense.

We forget that these are gifts that cannot be bought with all the money on Earth. None of these gifts are available in stores because the most important gifts are not measured in money. The most important gift is love, then time. Spending time with your loved ones… You can’t take these gifts back, you can’t return them. Just like the words you said, the encouragement, the hope, the friendship, the affection. They can change a whole life.

Small gestures made from the heart, without waiting for congratulations, enrich you first, then, soothe the hearts of others.

There is always someone somewhere who needs your dedication! So, give yourself for every eternal tomorrow!

Try to give, not to receive, but to feel that you are doing it. Try not to wait for acknowledgments. So, when you give a gift, do it wholeheartedly and be sure to „match” it with a smile!

Give joy and you will receive joy in return!

LINK: https://logopaper.com/2022/01/05/andrea-beatrix-zambete-impartite-cu-cei-din-jur/