German Class 1

So if you ever want to visit Germany, I feel it's my duty to help you with the basics, as I know how it is to arrive here and not be able to say:

HELLO = HALLO/GUTEN TAG
BYE = TSCHUESS[tschews]
PLEASE = BITTE
THANK YOU = DANKE
EXCUSE ME = ENTSCHULDIGEN SIE
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? = WIE HEISST DU?
HOW ARE YOU? = WIE GEHT'S?
DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISCH? = SPRECHEN SIE ENGLISCH?
I DON'T UNDERSTAND = ICH VERSTEHE NICHT
WHERE ARE YOU FROM? = WOHER KOMMEN SIE?
I DON'T SPEAK GERMAN = ICH SPRECHE KEIN DEUTSCH
I AM HUNGRY/THIRSTY = ICH HABE HUNGER/DURST
WHERE CAN I FIND...? = WO KANN ICH ... FINDEN?
HOSPITAL = KRANKENHAUS
HOTEL = HOTEL
COULD YOU HELP ME? = KOENNEN SIE MIR HELFEN?


That's it for now.Let me know if it helped.

Women in Art

This is the way western artists painted women over a period of 500 years. Observe the changes in style, it's amazing. Great job!

Real Beauty Workshop

This makes me wonder.. how can they teach us to be self-confident, to feel pretty and attractive, if beauty has become something as artificial as this...



Any thoughts?

I lived in...

Brad(Thank you for the photo, Bogdan)



Deva



Timisoara



Darmstadt



The lovely harbour of Soller, Mallorca



The crazy Arenal, Mallorca



Worms, simple, ancient, welcoming

About me...

Maybe you've come to know me a bit from my previous posts, but don't know any details yet(if you're not one of my friends yet).
So let me enlighten you a little...
I was born in Transylvania, Romania on a cold winter morning, 22 Dec 1986. I have lived in Brad(my native town), Deva and Timisoara, where I also finished highschool.I miss all my classmates a lot and hope to see them again some day.
After highschool I moved to Darmstadt, Germany where I went to a few language schools to learn the "lovely" german language...I met a lot of cool friends and Darmstadt and I miss them all!!If you guys are reading this..know that I didn't forget you.
After half a year in Germany, I already felt something was fishy about this country...kidding.So I decided to try out Spain, which proved to be waaay better for me.I spent 5 months in Mallorca, working, dancing, swimming, having loads of fun. All that ended one September morning, when with teary eyes I embarked on the plane back to Germany.
I started studying Tourism and Travel Management in Worms(it's one of the most ancient towns in Europe, so no Name-mocking is allowed) and everything started to get better. I met new people, new friends, my boyfriend which I totally love and yeah...I don't regret coming back from Mallorca anymore:)
Now I live in Worms with my boyfriend, we have 2 guinea pigs that are simply adorable.They're called Cartman and Metallica:)
We eat a lot of tacos and spend just too much time online, but life has been good to us, no complains.

Any questions?

Pon di River - Steps

One of my blog's main ideas is encouraging readers to live a healthy life, so for example once you quit smoking you can start enjoying other constructive and pleasant activities, like DANCING, any kind of dancing.
I personally like dancehall, so here are the steps of a very well-known dancehall video of Elephant Man, Pon di River...



I hope you enjoyed it. Have fun practicing!

Quit smoking Strategies 1

I started smoking at a very young age, no idea why…maybe peer pressure
I never was a heavy smoker, thank God, but I never had smoking breaks.The bad news is that I have recently started feeling the effects of smoking and decided to quit.
Now…to quit smoking …honestly I have no idea what you need, especially if you enjoy it.
I personally did enjoy it, I loved having a smoke with my friends, my father, even my grandma.
Besides, there’s nothing like smoking after meals…..and then there’s smoking while you drink.
I think that’s where it gets vicious.
From what I’ve read drinking and smoking are a “great” combination: they work together to damage your brain!!?!

Have a look at this:

"As chronic alcohol drinking and chronic smoking more often than not co-occur, researchers have begun to realize that the brain effects previously attributed to alcohol drinking alone may in fact be the result of both drinking and smoking. This realization may have consequences for how we look at treatment for alcohol-use disorders."

Now think about it…don’t you smoke more when you drink alcohol?If you’re a non-smoker thinks about your friends/relatives that smoke..

So…to prove to you that it’s true..let’s see the results of a study the Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research at Duke University Medical Center developed.
The study was simple.They had some people smoke and drink and observed the changes in the amount of smoking, depending on the amount of alcohol they drank.

"Smoking-urge ratings were higher after consuming four versus two alcohol drinks, and increases were not observed after consuming a placebo beverage," said study co-author Andrea King of the University of Chicago. "These findings were observed in a nonsmoking environment, which may indicate that alcohol directly produced these effects and they were not due to direct smoking cues triggering cigarette craving. In other words, the greater the alcohol consumption, the greater the urge to smoke."

Maybe that should give us food for thought and make us reconsider our ‘quit smoking’ strategy.
After all.. it’s difficult to enjoy a cold beer if you’re not smoking, but it’s worth it.

Please give me some feedback on whether or not this was helpful and any ‘quit smoking’ strategies that you have tried, that did or did not work.Thank you!

PS:Try drinking green tea!(see my post on the “Asian Paradox”)