Showing posts with label classroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classroom. Show all posts

21.6.10

Fire in a classroom's corner and glagolitic alphabet

Another detail from another classroom:



Although this painted wall is interesting, I wonder if it causes pupils to be a bit more aggressive than usual because of the fire's image influence on their subconsciousness...

Btw, the weird script below the white board is so-called glagoljica or Glagolitic alphabet (don't mix it with Cyrillic), dating from around 9th century AD, and is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. Latin alphabet prevailed later on, and around 19th century, Glagolitic alphabet was made obsolete (it was officially made obsolete long before that, but it hung on here and there).

Just in case you were wondering, my name, Mirela, in Glagolitic, looks like this:

15.5.10

Classroom

Classrooms and their walls used to be quite dull when I was a kid. Classrooms in the school where I attend Italian lessons recently got flowery walls with purple/black details:

21.1.10

Back to school!

Not really, but close enough.... I'm attending evening classes of Italian, organized by the Italian Institute in Zagreb. I'm (again) following the beginner's course. I've had 4 years of Italian during high school, but 10+ years of not using it will do a lot of memory erasing, especially when it comes to active knowledge of the language.