ARIES (BARAN) Your motto for 2007: No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake) It will be a very successful year. If you take any exams this year, you will pass them with flying colours. If you are going to take your Matura exam, you can choose more subjects and be so ambitious you never thought you could be and it will all be really
Sarah Michelle Gellar loves shopping in London. Although the young actress lives in America, whenever she needs to buy some clothes, she takes her friend and they go on a shopping trip to the capital of England. – My friend always knows what to buy – says Sarah. – So I tell her: you choose and I pay. We always spend a fortune but it is a great fun! Close to 250 pounds – this
Horoscope ARIES (BARAN) You are an optimist and you always buy what you like and what you want. People easily lend you money, and if you really want to have something, you will do everything you can to get it. You can sell a camera to buy new jeans, simply because you must have them. Now! TAURUS (BYK) Saving, not spending is your hobby. You don’t spend easily. You prefer to
Learn how to learn How do you take notes? I bet you write down in your notebook what your teacher says. It might look like an essay! If your notes are with bullet points or numbers, you are more advanced. But still such method of taking notes is linear, because both the process of taking notes and their reading and recovering the knowledge hidden in the piece of paper consists in
Wallets and purses do get stolen! Unfortunately, wallets and purses do get stolen or lost on a regular basis. As it has happened to me my biggest concern was the fact that my credit card was also missing. I’ve always thought it would never happen to me. I have never tried to draw up a plan of action. Well, I should have. Now I know that really isn’t as daunting to come up with a “lost”
Piece of advice The lack of cash is something we all know. Here are some interesting suggestions on how earn yourself some extra money… T-shirts The idea came to me when I was on holiday. I saw a guy with funny writing on his T-shirt and thought to myself, how nice would it be to have the T-shirt. Then this brilliant idea appeared in my head. I could use special copier paper to print myself
Shopping on line and in the real world As revealed, with the wonderful technology aspects of today, individuals can use their computers and the Internet to get many things accomplished. One such item which more and more individuals are using the Internet for is shopping. Shopping online can offer much more than you might at first imagine. No queues, no endlessly looking for somewhere to park, every single product in
Are you a Pro Shopper? Are you a good gift-giver? Do you spend too much? Do the quiz to find out! Try to be honest with yourself. You don’t have to share the results with anyone else. Do you shop when you’re happy, sad or in between? Do you buy clothes, shoes, handbags, DVD’s, toys or anything else without regard to whether you need it or can afford it? Is your shopping habit,
BY WORD OF MOUTH Advertising has ancient tradition. First advertisements were oral of course – people simply tried to encourage the clients telling them about the advantages of the product. The oral tradition was continued in the Middle Ages, when merchants paid people to shout the prices of their products. CLAY AND PAPER In the ancient times there were advertisements on papyrus in Egypt and on the rocks (Indians). When
A must or a luxury? How much do services cost in Poland? TAILOR / DRESSMAKER Sewing a suit can cost even 50 000 zl! A hand-sewn shirt costs about 300 zl. It’s a luxury. But if you need a wedding gown, you can have it cheaper from a dressmaker (about 1200 zl) than from a shop. HAIRDRESSER This is the most unfair and sexist service. A man spends about 20 – 30 zl to have his hair cut. The woman,
Read a story! When I saw her for the first time, she looked like a typical teenager. Long, brown hair and brown eyes. Slightly plump, with signs of early acne on her face. Probably thinking about diets and loosing weight, brand-new boyfriends and soaps on TV. What real problems can such a girl have? – I thought. I”ve seen lots of girls with problems. Girls of her age fighting with domestic violence, depressed, prone
Supermarkets are big traps for consumers. If you can’t avoid them, you must learn about all the little traps you can be caught in – if you don’t want to lose your time and money. Yesterday I went to a supermarket. I wanted to buy some bread, butter and shampoo. Five minutes in the shop and not too much money spent. After all, it’s the end of the month. After one hour, I was queuing
David, 18 I hate going to shops and especially supermarkets. You never know how to find yourself in this crowd of people running in many different directions. I am always loosing my head when I go shopping to one of these malls. And the same happened last weekend – I lost my head. I went window shopping with my 6-year old sister. She spent hours on Saturday morning begging me to walk with her to
…to go to a New Year’s Eve party for a whole night Mum, Dad… I’d like to go to a New Year’s Eve party and I’d like to stay overnight, because… 1. It is much safer to stay for the night than to return home in the middle of the night. At New Year’s Eve it is really difficult to catch a taxi because everybody wants to get home and taxi drivers want to
Let’s organize a party! When you organize a party for your friends, you must think about food and drink before. We don’t want a situation when a host prepares everything and pays for that, so when this is excluded, we have the following three options. 1. What have you brought? Each person brings something to eat or/and drink. It is really good because they are people (rare!) who can bake a cake, and there are people
1. Traveller’s party If you feel you are bored with New Year’s Eve parties, you might decide the best idea will be to fill your backpack and go somewhere. Lots of people go to the mountains and opt for a kind of ski-party. Zakopane is full, however, and a much better and more original option could be actually going to… the seaside. You can take a bottle of champagne and drink it on
Quiz How much do you know about Christmas? Do you know anything about traditions in other countries? Answer the questions choosing A or B and you find out! One letter from the correct answer is one letter of the password (in brackets you are given a position of the letter you should put into the password). Look at the example: 14. The American name of Christmas’ gifts giver is…………… (the 1st letter) A.
Rumors Another film star pregnant! Nicole Kidman, who married a country musician, Keith Richards few months ago, is said to be going to have a baby! Although the rumours have not already been confirmed, papparazzi noticed that famous actress, and mother of two adopted children, looks like she was the happiest person in the world. It is not an easy time for Nicole, whose husband has been drying out from alcohol addiction
CHRISTMAS TREE In Liberia oil palm decorated with bells is a typical Christmas Tree. In India banana or mango trees are decorated. In Greece there are Christmas trees but the main plant associated with Christmas is… basil. It is wrapped around a wooden cross and, once a day, dipped in holy water. Than a person from the family (usually the mother) sprinkles the water around the house. It is supposed to keep the spirits
Święta to świetny czas na odpoczynek… Szczególnie dla licealistów… Ania, 17 For me Christmas is not only a family time but most of all a time for me. I love family gatherings and the food which is especially prepared for this time in year but I treat Christmas like a nice break at the end of the year. I spend days reading books and magazines which I borrowed from the libraries or bought especially for this occasion.
