Thursday, 21 June 2018

My first kind of band


   Remember when I told you i don't have any opportunity to be in a band? Well, that was kind of a lie. Since October 2017 I participate in this kind of a project created by me and my classmates - "Potok". Literally it means "Stream" but the name is a mix of Polish word for "after" and "TOK", the abbreviation of Theory of Knowledge (which we have to study in the IB).
   Every month we visit the local hospice. We come to every single room, where we perform in front of the patients. I play the guitar, my friend Maya plays the ukulele and the rest of us sing. We always have to choose songs that are in Polish and were popular in the 60s-70s, because then everyone can try and sing-along. Sometimes they also tell their stories related to these songs. Once Mrs. Irene told us about the time when she was a volunteer during a holiday trip for disabled children. She had to perform a song on stage with the child she took care of. It happened to be the song we decided to play in her room! Of course she wanted us to sing it once again, and she was really happy. I was also very happy when I found out that she left the hospice two months later, and now she is able to live in her own home again! Isn't that amazing?
   It's not always that happy though. There are always people who say depressing things, or people who always look happy and then you find out that they passed away few months later, or families who visit their relatives in the hospice and have to go out of the room because they start crying when we sing the songs, or people who tell us to go away because they don't want to hear the music. Well, sometimes we decide to come inside anyway and perform for them, and when we finish they tell us to play once again or ask what other songs we know. In balance, it gives us more joy than sorrow.
  I hope we will be able to play there next year too, but maybe not as often. Even though we really enjoy it, it might be exhausting sometimes.

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Hello there!


  Hi there! My name is Julia and I'm really into music. This blog will be about music. Because I like listening to music. Music is my life. And my passion. Oh and I play the guitar.

  I know, I know, that's not the way I should greet you on my blog. But I still did that because I didn't have any other idea. All I've said is kinda true, because my name is actually Julia and I can say that music is some kind of my hobby. It's a great thing because you can listen to music whenever you want to, and if you happen to have a little bit more leisure time then you can practice playing an instrument or singing, or if you don't have anything better to do you can play in a band and have a whale of time while others study or make actual money. Well, I'm a student with no oportunities to play in a band, so I use my spare time to write stupid posts like this one! Children, don't do it. It's not worth it.

  Anyway, I hope this will somehow work out, I mean this blog. I don't have a lot of ideas on what posts I should make but believe me, I will try my best. Just as I always do in life. Because that's the way you deal with it, right?