Good news ;)

Being grounded for a couple of days as my thermometer is still showing me 38 degrees (I hope this will not cause mistakes), I decided to cheer myself up and find some good news.

So what I came across I think will be appreciated by anyone who is interested in DIY jobs. Namely, if you want to redecorate your room, simply forget about paint, paintbrushes, wallpapers, glue, concrete or decorative stickers. What you really need is … an OHP.

Thanks to a group of Dutch artists, decorating has become a child’s play. By means of beams of light you can design your room in any way you can imagine - the sky is the limit. And although this method does not seem to be suitable for everyday use, it might be a great trick to astonish your friends. Let’s just hope their eyes will stand the intense beams at least for a while.

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A hard time reading books...

Honestly, I have to admit that books did not play any crucial role in my childhood, unfortunately (or fortunately). Surely, my father would read me some short tales before I fell asleep (“Lokomotywa,” “Kopciuszek” or “Winnie the Pooh”), but I abandoned this ritual when I grew older – spending evenings in the playground seemed much more fun.

When I started Primary School I read everything that I was supposed to, even with having some fun, until Junior High School. Then, I realized how much of the books that I was forced to read were impossible to understand due to historical values or extremely difficult language (“Zemsta?”), so things which were far too mature for a kid of my age. Therefore, at this point of my life I decided to skip reading books as they were originally written, and started reading summaries that were not only less time consuming, but also easier to understand and go through.

So, one can come to a conclusion that it is not always the child who should be blamed for their reluctance to draw knowledge from books, but it is rather our educational system and its choices of required readings that can successfully discourage anybody from taking up reading. Sad, but true for me and for many other people, I suppose.

Adam Malysz in Rozmowy w Toku