A so-wished award

Oh, wow... I didn't think it could happen to me... Getting such an award... Cheerful applause, smiling faces, flashes of lights -- and I am at a loss for words. Hesitating for a while... OK, let's have a go with the usual clichés.

I would like to say thanks to my family who always supported me: my parents, my sister, my grandmothers, my godmother, my cousins. To my friends, the neighbours, and to Gmail for bringing me the good news.

Special thanks to my mother for teaching me how to speak and write, and for my teachers who helped me improving my language skills -- Hungarian and English, from primary school to uni. I'm grateful to the tournaments abroad for bringing me into a "forced to speak in English" situation and to my foreign friends for making me write regularly in English. I'm much obliged to my friends for being my friends.

I greatly appreciate my cousin's supporting my living in England during the postponed university year. I would also like to express my gratitude to Abra Wholesales, Marian Mission, AYS and Teaching Personnel for employing me and providing the financial base of my London stay.

I'm thankful to my father for teaching me how to use the computer, and to my penfriends for improving my typing skills. I recognize the Matáv-T-com company for supplying me with Internet and the Blogspot site for the wonderful service they provided.

Though, I want to reserve the most special thanks for the Reading & Writing course -- with its great teacher, Joe, and his superb students. Without Joe's fantastic idea, the task for blogging, I couldn't even dream of this prize -- also, he showed me how to fly. :) I'm most grateful to my classmates for being so nice, friendly, helpful, funny, cool, and... thanks for their nominations and votes, too. :)

All in all, thank you guys! I've never ever got a Blogscar before. ;)


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Pride but prejudice

Too fat, too short, too skinny or too tall. Brown, black or yellow skin. Wider nose, rougher hair, oriental eyes. A Jew, a Gipsy, a Chinese, a "Negro". A girl with girlfriend or a guy with boyfriend. A geek, a policeman, a poor.
Let's just exclude all of them from society.

'Cause every Rom is a swindler, no policeman can have brain and Chinese are definitely less valuable people. If you are fat from Burger King, you are also out -- can't belong to Us, us with capital "u". Calling somebody a "Jew" or a "Negro" is abusive in itself, so what do you want with such origins?! Want to marry your girlfriend, you, as a woman?! Oh, gosh! Eager beaver in school? Go away! No money for stylish stuffs? What a shame!
Let's just exclude all of them from Us. From Us, from 'normal people'.

But since when does your birth place can issue who you are? Since when does your blood decides your being good or not? Since when does loving your own gender makes you a worse person? Since when does having less money indicates your being of a lower value? Since when does a 'worse' outlook means a worse personality? Since when...?!

Since when can people judge others so superficially -- according to prejudices and stereotypes?