So I went to cut my cats hair down, so he will be not so hot during the summer. This is how he looks.
Michael
Michael
Michael

He looks maybe funny, but we finally see what he really looks like and we see his body too :-)

But I paid a high price.
It hurts like devil

This red spot is only one of many injuries, which Michael did to me, when I was holding him… It huts like nothing before… I hardly can dress up, move the finger or even write this post…

So I will show you, that you do not have to have a garden to grow your own vegetables :-)
my tomatoes
my red tomato

And I give you a picture of sundown too :-)
Sundown

My and my boyfriend do not like to buy bread from the shop, because it is full of chemicals. And most of all, they do not sell real graham bread. So here it is how we make it.

Firstly we put 1kg of flower, one teaspoon of salt, one spoon of olive oil and about 100 grams of sunflower seeds into one bowl. On the picture there is garlic too.

flower, garlic, sunflower seeds, oil, salt

Than we cook some potatoes.

potatoes

In the meanwhile we put the yeast (here it is sold in for of a about 42 g cube and it looks like butter, so it is not dried) into about 200 ml of warm (!!!) milk and a spoon of sugar. The sugar gives energy to the yeast so it can rise. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes. You can aslo use two cubes, so the bread rises more.

yeast

When the potatoes are cooked, than you grate them into the bowl.

cooked potatoes

Than the yeast and now is the time, when you get dirty. You should mix it all together and when it is too dry, add some warm water into it. You should mix it until the bread do not stick to your hands. The bread should be not too wet, so it holds the form you give to it, but also should be not too dry, so it can rise.

yeast into the bowl

mixing

When you made it, form a loaf. We make round loafs of bread and leave it for an hour to rise. We started to do that in our own way. We let the bread rise on the plate with baking paper, so we do not have to replace the bread and it will not fall down when we replace the bread from the bowl to the plate. The place where it should rise is a dark place, which is not too cold. Our oven has not window, so we place it there and when one hour is over (sometimes an hour is too much and the bread will fall, so you have to control it), this is the rising time, we just start it and bake it for one hour.

rising

This is how our real graham bread looks like.

bread

Than the next day we can eat fresh bread for breakfast.

morning

I try to enjoy my holidays, but somehow I feel depressed. It is because of the vision, that all three months I will spend in front of my pc and in the same room… Trough the summer it is too hot, or it rains and it is not the perfect weather for long walks. I even think, that those walks would not make me feel better. But it really goes on my nerves the everyday stereotype. I’m so tired… I work only few hours a day, but I do not know how people can stand to work about 8 hours every day. But maybe I just have a too stereotype work… No challenges, no change… I do not have to work every day, I have a monthly limit which I should do. But then I work for our site – I translate some articles and it really sucks out of my many energy… and I translate every day an article.

Also I feel, that I should have more exercise… When I was younger, it was better. We went out, played games, even if we were older we played with smaller children, we chased each other, went on longer walks. Now I am with my boyfriend. We have his and his brother´s flat and we sit together in it. I stare into my pc and he in his own. And when I do not have my pc, we stare at some movie in his pc. And the worst is, that I got use to it.

Somehow I miss the school… We are not every day in the same time at school, I walk into the school and home, and again into the school and than to Jan. But maybe going to school would be not good in such hot weather. Maybe I just still have the end-school crisis :-D I had it last year too, but I think it did not last for so long as now…

Maybe it is so strong, because next year, I hope, that me and Jan will move to our own flat. Im afraid, that I will have such stereotype every day. Of course I will go to the school, and I will cook and I (hope?) will have the same work… I just hope, that Jan will help me and he will not work and play all day long. And of course bicycling. I do not want to find my self looking like my parents. I, as my mum, working and than expected to cook and clean and Jan as my father, sitting around and doing mostly nothing. Of course Jan do not want to have clean flat as my father, but I want to have clean around me, because if I have too much dust in the room, I start to sneeze.

So I finished all my exams. To be exact I finished them on the 6-th of June. I had exam from engineer and research drilling (I hope, that it is the right mane for that subject in English. That engineer means making holes for underground pipes and making holes for building buildings). Than I had exam from the Physics of the upper atmosphere, English, Energetic machines (do not understand why it has this name. It was about how to get out water from a mine and how to get fresh air into a mine. Another thing I do not understand is, that what it was good for when I study alternative sources of energy…), Technology of alternative sources of energy and the last was Deposit geology (another subject I do not know if this is the right name). So I have summer holidays till 12-th September and the school starts maybe on the 22-th of September.
I just hope, that I will not just sit in front of my PC all 3 months. I would like to visit and support out local ZOO or botanic garden. Maybe I even manage to go to Hight Tatras for few days, but I would go there only with Jan, but he has nobody for feeding his fish.

The time flies so quickly… next weak I will have first of my exams. But it is so hard to learn. Especially if I would like to do so many other things… But it is just next weak in school and than will be the “exam period”, when we do not have school, we only make our exams. You can make some exams before the exam period too. You do not have much time, but it uses to be easier than in the later terms (maybe it is only a myth :-)… I will see…

Today I saw this movie, Idiocracy. I know, it is an old movie, but anyway, I saw it today. Somehow it throw me into some kind of depression… Not a sad depression, but somehow I feel like there were nothing to look forward to in the future. I know, it was only a movie, but they are true. Stupid people breed more than normal people. Maybe not as extremely as they showed there, but they do… Like Gypsies here… I’m not a racist, but they are lazy, do not want to work, they steel and make other people work on them. Even we Slovaks are discriminated, because they have so much social advantage, like free funerals (they do not have money, so the state pays for the funerals, so no dead bodies lay around) and monthly they have as much money as a working man, because they get money for their children, and they make really very much children. They starting with making kids in 12-13! But they do not even care for those children! Their children are dirty, violent and they beg on the streets, or they steal. Some time ago, the prices went high and they were protesting, that they do not have money or food. They robed some shops, and do you know what they sealed? Cigarettes and alcohol, not food for their children! And they will scream into the TV, that they are discriminated? You even do not end the primary school, so what are you expecting?
Of course not every Gypsy is like that. But most of them are like that and make the life very hard for those, who really want to work and do something with their lives. Most of them behave like that because they grew up in such family and they think it is normal. The kids are not motivated to learn and to achieve something…

So the weekend is almost over… I use to say, that at university it is weekend
all the time, but trough the week you cant decide when you are going out
by your self.

So tomorrow I will have my English lesson.  Somehow the English in school
do not teach me anything more anymore. It is because, mostly, the whole
group has to respect that there are few students on the lover level of English.
I would like to go to an English course, but I do not have as much time as
I would wish…

I hope, that tomorrow me and my boyfriend will go to the garden store. It
looks like this summer we will have 4 large flower-pots on his balcony
with tomatoes. He has got a great balcony. It is very warm, because the sun
is shining there trough most of the day. Last year we had there only1 flower-pot and about 8 tomato plants. We had more tomatoes, but only little ones,
because they had less nutrition, but there were sweet anyway :-)
Now we will have only few plants in one pot.

Welcome to my new blog… Are you new here? Me too… :-)

It is quite hard to think out what should I write about, but I will try to write

here what I think and what I did :-)

I´m going now to think about what should I write here and  I come back when something will be on my mind.

So for now bye

my

My name is Zuzana. I come from Slovakia (middle Europe if you would like to search for it, oh, and you wont find it on maps older than 1993). I study at Technical University in Košice, I study alternative sources of energy. I have a cat - Michael, a boyfriend - Jan and I like plants. Also I like to take care about Jan´s aquariums.