Friday, February 27, 2009

Wedding Graphic Program Samples

The garden

visits since September last year our now five year-old Julius brave a "municipal pre-school educational institution, kindergarten, or - in view of the Russian love of Deminutivsuffixen -" Sadik, "garden called. this institution shall pay the lofty Designation "grammar school No. 1" also the cozy name Sönnchen. A special feature this particular facility is the early childhood teaching the German language and culture - this circumstance we owe at all also the place for Julius, for kindergarten places in Novosibirsk as in all of Russia rare and often only after years of waiting time and / or (!) to obtain a deposit in the "Parents Fund" in respectable level.
spared us all this, however we pay - like all other parents in the "Sönnchen" - besides the state-set school fees of about 900 rubles (currently about 20 €) some minor allowances for "special services", eg physiotherapy (When I asked under what conditions the children it were to participate, I got the answer, actually not all children are somehow sick, so we decided not to our healthy Julius exclude them), vitamins (which you as a reward for good work during the be distributed or teaching denied in case of failure), or - from scratch - an "oxygen cocktail" that is reminiscent of foamed apple juice, spooned from the children but with great enthusiasm () is!. The largest item, but take the "voluntary donations" in the amount of 1,700 rubles, so that total on a monthly contribution of just under 3,000 rubles is - a whole Quantity for a Russian teacher's salary of about 8,000 rubles.
is, however, that the child also completely furnished - with an opening time of 7-19 Clock and four meals a day (breakfast of porridge, three-course lunch menu, milk and biscuits for "poldnik" after the nap and dinner). Included is also a strict medical surveillance of children by two in-house medical staff: from numerous required supporting research findings and analysis prior to the start of the Child on the close observation ("Your son has contact two pimples on the nose, please report it immediately to the competent clinic and let him at least a week at home! ") spontaneous and medication Transportation ("Julius has now coughed to sleep. Since we have given him a pill.") to collective vaccination and immunity tests to the national rate fixed points in time.
end Unfortunately, this round supply abruptly end of May - then start the Russian summer holidays, up to the grand reopening of the kindergarten and school operations on 1 September last. It is beyond me, as Russian families - and we! - Can survive three months hand-written child care.
The daily routine in the "garden" is by tightly organized: At 8 clock in the group of two series in the in-house cafeteria marched to breakfast, especially the bekittelte governess, behind her the two "on-duty" Children in apron, and help clear the tables of the tables. After breakfast, there are three or four "lessons", ie units of 30 minutes, in which 20 children are divided into two groups that are dedicated to the exchange the subjects: kneading and gluing, painting and drawing, computer science (logical thinking) , mathematics, literacy, reading, German, singing, sports. Each lesson is interrupted by small "Fizminutki" where the children - of course all at once - get up and make small gym exercises. But otherwise they either sit at small tables, which in the bedroom establishes the rules and the teacher already lovingly with each required material "covered" were, or search on one of the classrooms in which the group is expected by the German teacher, music teacher or sports coach. Actually, the nursery also has a private swimming pool, but unfortunately the management tried unsuccessfully for about two years to obtain the necessary papers to start at the city council ...
also in the creative fields, there are clear guidelines on what to paint each, cut to stick with modeling clay or dough is. Thus, the parents each afternoon in the "gallery of children's creativity" 20 Snowmen admire stained paper, 20 or 20 ravens drawn kneaded trees.
In mathematics and the languages of the children have regular school books, pencil cases and folders. Julius settled already quite secure in numbers up to 10 and can some Russian - write letters - and unfortunately also German. The groups are composed of old uniform. Julius attended the oldest group, from which the now mostly seven-year-olds will go in the summer in the first grade. This assignment is one of the teacher to thank, who speaks passable German, and Julius was able to facilitate in the first few weeks to settle in much. This teacher is also otherwise a stroke of luck: Very different from their usually very strict and often somewhat rabid fellow she meets the children very carefully, empathetically and with noticeable affection. These properties, they could even have a three-month double-layer maintained from October to December last year was the second teacher of the group suffering the long term, so not as usual during the afternoon sleep of the exchange took place, but this one teacher 12 hours a day, the 20 children alone in charge.
goes after the lessons, the group concluded for at least an hour outside - only at extremely low temperatures below -20 degrees no longer playing in the fresh air.
Also on the Outside there is very organized to: Each group has its own area, so that a total of 6 slides, 6 sand boxes, 6 cottages on the veranda of land disposed. After the "free floating" it's for lunch, after which one of the two group rooms, extended the drawers and beds to the already seven-year-olds crawl with pajamas for two hours (!) To bed.
to sleep is still read a story. A governess is all the time in the bedroom there, to call those children to rest, which will it will not fall asleep ...
After sleeping and strengthen the "poldnik" can the children - now it's about 15.30 clock - Play for Free! This daily structure has led to Julius earnestly after the first weeks settling a question asked, "very long" to be allowed to remain.
The frequent changes of activities and locations during the course of a kindergarten day asked the children several times
- independently - to move (!):
When morning arrived to be felt boots, snow suit, fur hat and gloves stowed in a small cupboard and exchanged for shorts, T-shirt and sandals. Even at -40 degrees outside temperature prevailing in kindergarten chubby 25 degree heat. For sport which - of course uniform - sports uniform, consisting of orange T-shirt and worn black shorts. Unfortunately, this is not provided centrally by the institution, but it is up to parents to comb the entire city to buy an orange T-shirt without any imprint. Here, the boundaries between dark and bright orange on the part of the teachers strictly adhered to. To play on the outdoor terrain, the children have to re-create the course, warm clothing, and then again for lunch the group of normal clothes, but after eating a sleeping suit - or for hot-blooded - only their underwear. After sleeping all pull again to the group dress, and if the parents come naturally to her again snowsuit and boots .... In
"Sönnchen are celebrating along with the many Russian and all German holidays and festivals, which sometimes leads to an unbearable accumulation. After the German Martin and Nikolaus Fest, the German Christmas and the Russian New Year in December, followed in January, the Russian Christmas dance (in old costumes), a German Karnevaltag, in February, a sports festival and a parents' evening and the "Day of Defender of the country "and, finally, the" butter week ", an ancient Slavic feast for the expulsion of the winter. For every occasion, the children learn proper German or Russian Songs and poems, each coming on stage for the performance. Currently practicing Julius touching songs about the best of all mothers and grandmothers with golden hands. On 8 March is Women's Day that is ...

Monday, January 12, 2009

How Many Units In Bottle Of Jd

shopping in Russian

contemporaries who speak of Germany as a service desert, we strongly recommend a visit to Russia!
Although different product listing of a Russian supermarket little from our usual, apart perhaps from a 500g cup fresh strawberries in the middle of winter - but for about 30 €!
opening times - at least to 22 clock every day, including Sundays, often around the clock - and enormous staff presence can be initially close to exceptional customer service. In each gear, several women engaged in Drappier the goods too pretty on the shelves, meat, fish and cheese counter with sellers crowded and behind the cash register tapes were young men out to pack up your paid purchases in plastic bags and (for We unfortunately do not contribute to any) car.
If you then simply goes through the supermarket and takes out what you want from shelves, you really only noticed at the POS that it is abroad. For here every Aldi cashier would turn green with envy, they would have to witness, scan with their Russian colleagues who comfort the goods without the extra time for friendly glances or even wasting a verbal greeting. Also interesting that this study can be used to ensure apparent only when it is positioned behind three cash a supervisor in elegant costume.
one should have to take while shopping contact with the sales staff, you feel as Western Europeans do not often hit on the head. The question of a fairly popular consumer goods such as matches will with a simple shrug answered.
Turning confidence to a supposed expert butcher shop assistant prepare to ask for fresh ground beef, which is not visible in the bar, but perhaps more in store, present, or even fast, is that the whole perplexity disclosed in the answer "Apparently not here." In general, one feels at the meat counter is not uncommon as an unwanted intruder, the only one who voluntarily turns to hate. Long, demonstrative and even indignant stand further shifting of the shopping cart help not there. Only a loud response of the vendor, who made calmly continue or meat products packed up, rather than serve the customers out - sometimes - for some attention. Here is just the odd Russian Title "dewuschka" (Girls), which itself can be used for elderly people obviously have. To speed up this process, I have got used to ask me in advance at one of the many supervisors, whether the meat counter "does not yet work. Then instructs usually a seller, to use me in the near future.

Much more typical than those established in recent years, supermarkets are for the Russian market, but the myriad of small stalls, called kiosks at each stop, and other prominent locations are present in large numbers. There is not only us from Hannover, popular magazines and beverage kiosks, but one can of batteries, DVDs and pens on vegetables, fruits and meats, to gloves, boots and underwear buy anything and everything there. Julius grew particularly the highly specialized and chocolate ice cream kiosks to the heart, which we run every day at irregular intervals after the nursery to check the current offer.
a sales pitch on such a Büdchen does, however, some oddities with it. start early to even make eye contact with the most sedentary seller, you must stoop even I my upper body on a very uncomfortable level. The explanation for these national technical misconception I have been two versions Offered: They say you have originally planned to put the kiosks on platforms that allow sellers a comfortable seating position and the customers a shopping conversation at eye level. These platforms are then, however - simply been forgotten - in the heat of the construction for decades. Or so rumor has it, through the low window in the kiosks should the - not otherwise apparently successful end - to ensure prevention of the working class. Anyway, I put myself in the first summer friendly bent waiting outside the little window to a speech by the seller. Nothing happened. More than once I left the kiosks without having achieved anything, I wanted to but the poor woman do not interfere with the intense preoccupation with a crossword puzzle. At best, is an out-pressed "govorit" ("Speak!") Or "shto vam? ("What do you want?") Expected.
However, there are also pleasant exceptions. At the kindergarten nearest Eiskiosk an almost friendly relationship began with the seller, regardless of the wealth of their bodies literally crawled through the window, to Julius engage in conversation. Not infrequently, the adjacent owner of a mixed one Kazakh vegetable stand, which wanted a day to learn of new, where it is really better for now, in Russia or Germany? What can one say?
In winter, the stand-shopping is complicated by other obstacles to keep the heat of the little stove inside, close the window, the seller, but usually has a hand-lettered sign points to their presence ".! Open Tap". If one does this - with the appropriate bow - is also open, but the sales dialogue designed lashed with a fur cap over the ears rather slow, especially since the moves opposite is rarely the head near the opening speech. The desired product is then in sight, but not stored in the easy reach of the customer inside the kiosk, and patiently waits for the vendor with the transfer, until at temperatures around -15 degrees
has a glove pulled out and fingered the money from the wallet.

A convincing response to the Siberian climate are therefore in the subways and subway entrances located shops whose generous heated in winter and cool in summer courses an underground shopping experience possible. How pleasant it is

that we are right outside our yard a small "mom and pop shop" have. From the outside, only the word "vodka and wine," said we entered it a few days after our arrival to see that here the whole range of everyday items to have. This Shops located in the basement of the adjacent building, with the result that the three women there in the change from morning 8 to evening clock 22 clock - even on Saturday and Sunday - Slide service, rarely get to see daylight. This does not Abruch but their friendliness. Of course, we were immediately identified as newcomers to the area and openly questioned. Meanwhile, the three are very well informed about our past and present life know to kindergarten, school and work activities, even our shopping habits to know exactly shocking ("your favorite wine we have today, unfortunately, not there"). Sometimes we sneak to the secret anonymous supermarket to our reputation by not the all too frequent purchases of alcoholic beverages to bring into disrepute. When Klaus recently in view of the forthcoming visit of a Russian family for the first time (!) Wanted to buy a bottle of vodka, even developed a talk with the other customers. Surprised by the small size of the chosen bottle Klaus recommended one, "but a larger purchase, otherwise you have to match again!" Whereupon noticed another buyer ". Why, does not matter anyway, he comes back, how big the bottle is too." He's right.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Blisters On Stomach Looks Like Warts

Trinkets, trinkets, trinkets!









Further progress can be reported:)
Today I all day Sunday so spent, trinkets (jewelry pieces, which give the player bonuses) to insert into the game. So, I have also begun to build the character interface.