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Hasty Post II
Haven't been here a while.... Well, I probably need to call Oxford and have them redefine 'while' in their dictionaries. I have been busy, though, and with pleasant things for the most part.
As a good student, I shall listen to my teachers. For one of them has told me I need to brag more (so that people with lesser cognitive abilities know how awesome I am). So if you don't want to hear about it, feel free to skip this paragraph, but you should read it. My short story (http://www.lidovky.cz/i-treti-rocnik-souteze-v-anglictine-vyhrala-divka-fvj-/ln_kultura.asp?c=A090521_174351_ln_redakce_hrn) placed third in this competition, which is quite prestigious. They announced the results in Marriott, with a great buffet afterwards. Livia Klasova , the First Lady, was present as a special guest, her son as the principal of PORG, one of the organizers. The other organizer that is known to common Czech people is Lidove noviny, the editor of which was present as well.
Moving on the the less bragging part, I took the SAT Reasoning test today. Compared to the practice test I took, the general impression that SAT seems to give to and my anticipations, it was easy. I completed most sections on time or a bit sooner and despite the fact that I made a number of 'educated guesses', I am pretty confident about my answers. My variable section was math, and haven't I 'hereby agreed to the conditions set forth in the Test Booklet and/or on www.collegeboard.com' etc., etc., which include not relating the questions by any means of communication, inlcuding but not limited to blah blah blah, not telling anyone the essay topic until the essay is available online...... I'd tell you more. Hopefully, I don't violate anything or anybody by saying that as I was afraid of the essay topic, the one I got was good. I also dare say I did well on the essay - I have one concrete worry that concerns it, but I was able to provide a fair number of 'concrete examples' to my 'abstract definitions', which is something I usually struggle with. .... less-bragging section, there we go....we'll see when the scores arrive.
I shall now leave you, my imaginary reader, as I need to finish my resolution for OLMUN (starting Tuesday; today represents, however, my last chance to print it), write a paper for school, pack for OLMUN and a track meet I have tomorrow. Plus I plan to go to bed early, since I failed to 'prepare like an athlete and get plenty of sleep' yesterday and today, it's actual sports that I'm 'preparing' for.
Radical Artist's day
Today, we went to a very special event. Maybe some of you, dear and loyal readers, remember that my friends and I made a movie for a competition.... Well, this was a ceremony, where the results for Prague 6 were announced.
It started off quite well and during the coffee break after our movie was shown, we were approached by several people who praised our movie, complimenting us on the theme, plot, editing, music etc.
When our category was finally up, the moderator (Honza Musil) suddenly changed the way the results were announced to starting from the first place (as opposed to the more traditional third-to-first). Well, we didn't win. That was kind of ok - although those fans helped our confidence, we knew that had always been an option. It was the way the host announced it that really pissed us off. He made us look like complete morons: at first, they've said that there are 3 movies in our category, but after announcing the winner, the host said that it was obvious, who has the second place and that it's more like a sympathy award. And that we shouldn't make him call us, but come up ourselves....
Considering it was a 'sympathy award', the prices were pretty good, but we were still pissed off..
Fortunately, my day was to be made better.
Later in the afternoon, I've got a call from Lidove noviny, a co-organizer of a writing competition, telling me that I've been chosen to the final round and should be present at (yet another) award-giving event. It's to take place in the Marriott hotel. Hopefully, I won't get mocked for not being chosen by a small group of anything-but-objective individuals.
Past busy days in a hasty post
thanks to Shippy for this picture
And you, my reader, having read to this point, have been presented with yet another burst of my immense awesomeness, shall be left here. Having seen Caprica, I shall now devote my precious self to my mentoring egotist, one truly handsome cripple.
Morning Out with Mr Obama
With the intention of hearing and seeing Mr Obama, I got up at 2 AM on Sunday. I could've stayed in bed longer, but after Thursday's experience I wanted to give myself enough time to put on my contact lenses. (On Thursday, it took me AN HOUR and I was late for school, I excused myself blaming in on 'trouble with unconditional reflexes'....). This time, I was faster, but still had to wait for my 4:02 tram from Narodni divadlo (I enjoyed the romantic night walk from Podolska vodarna).
I was at the Loretanska entrance at 4:45 AM. There already were about 30 people waiting. I got lucky a little after 5 AM ("nothing good ever happens after 2 AM" -hahaha): Katie, Laura, David and Ben joined me and made my waiting a lot more fun. I actually enjoyed it (not that it's my #1 Sunday morning activity, but it was not what you imagine under 'standing in a crowd for 2.5 hours to move to another crowd for another 3 hours').
The Czech Police made an excellent job (as always) when managing the crowd: after pressing and pushing us here and there as needed to take police cordons in or drive cars in and out, the Anti-Conflict Team took over. The guy who seemed to be in charge stood in front of us (hundreds of people) saying he wants us to step back...
Somewhat before 7 (the time when the crowds were supposed to be let in), some people started demanding being let in first, because they had fliers that said "you are invited". The people who had them were really let in earlier and into a separated section.
Then, when it was finally our turn, we walked in and waited some more. Our main diversion were snipers checking the crowd from roofs and windows around us (dubbed 'ninjas' by a guy standing next to us).
We watched Mr Obama, accompanied by - amongst others - Mr Klaus, enter the Castle on big screens and after they had coffee, he came and gave his speech. Which I liked, but I am too lazy to write about it; I am also sure you watched or read it yourself ;).
Lou Reed & the Radicals
Going to the Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures exhibition in Rudolfinum, Prague had affected me more than I anticipated. I indeed expected to like it. In the days to follow, it had, however, had some unexpected major influences.
Fist off, it made me have a closer look on Lou Reed. After having a long, amazed stare at him, sunglasses and a Coke bottle in one of Warhol's Screen Tests, I'm actually listening to his music while writing this.
More notably to anyone but my iPod, me and my friends have made fun of the program: I really liked the movies, but calling Empire daring, experimental and radical....OK, maybe experimental (no one has done a thing like that before) and daring (publicly showing a movie like that sure is daring), but radical? We went on to how ridiculous the proliferation of the word 'radical' is .
The next 2 days, me and those radical-mocking friends were making a movie for a competition. For lack of a better name we called our group 'Radical Art' and turned the movie in just hours before the deadline (the name of our group and the movie were the two things we were most dissatisfied with). Now it seems that there will be some sort of fancy event for this competition and we will be asked questions of the "What-does-that-name-mean?" sort. Since it obviously came up as a joke, we will hopefully elaborate several seriously sounding theories.)
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