I got my first Statement of Accomplishment!!! :)

I've recently (last months) discovered Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/ - I can't tell you how grateful I am for the new worlds coursera opened for me, my learning hunger and my innate curiousity for things I love, don't ask me why.
I started with Introduction to Astronomy and the wonderful professor Ronen Plesser, I just love the guy and his ability to transfer not only his knowledge but also his passion and love for the universe.  Unfortunately, it wasn't to happen!  After the first week I lost valuable time with a pc crash and a heavy program, so I had to stop, for now... Buuuuut, me and many other miserable (at that time) students communicated with him and the course will be up and running again after some time.  I am sooooooo grateful. :)
So, the first course I actually finished is Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life with professor Charles Cockell.  I also recommend it since it is very interesting and the professor is a great lecturer.  And guess what?  I got it with 95.8% success and with distinction, of course!
Now I am running with three other courses and I am entering a fourth in a week.  I may be crazy but I am a happy one. :)

Dancing at the square

Dancers entertaining the people at the square under the sound of popular dancing music.  A nice characteristic event of the days.  A way to lighten our hearts.

Carnival children's play at the main square of Katerini

My friend Dionysia, is a wonderful entertainer and she loves kids.  On Saturday she was a clown at the square entertaining children.

Happy Carnival!!! :)

Woman's Day - part 2

Union of Artists of Pieria exhibited paintings with women or about women at the building of Ekavi.  Some photos below.

A lot of positive comments by a lot of people who came to participate in this event. A lot of smiles also. The whole point though was to remember that women don't celebrate once a year but all year around.  And this is very important to have in mind. 

Although I also heard a complain from a man who told me that it's not fair. Women have women' day, mothers' day and etc., men have no celebration day... I reminded him that there is fathers' day but, as he said, nobody remembers this particular day, which was, as all of these celebration days, an invention of florists. :P 

Women's Day - part 1

The president of the Union of Artist in Pieria, mrs Giota Kazantzanidou, during her speech about the position of women in art.  Women were absent or second behind men when it had to do with the artistic endeavor in a men's world.  Men painters believed that we didn't have the ability to express ourselves through art like this could ever have to do with gender.  Even right now, in some places, women are still thought as not capable of things that are supposed to be done by men.
On the other hand, the president of the Union of Lawyers praised women as artists, mothers, wives, colleagues and in so many other roles, since men also come from women and the worthy can not come from the unworthy.
After the speeches, the music band of the Lawyers' Union filled the air with quality music and songs about the woman. It is so good to see lawyers play music or sing fantastic songs with such beautiful voices instead of pleading at the court.

The lawyer's band in action

And even dancing, tango in particular...

Woman's Day painting

I made this painting in Tuesday and Wednesday, a couple of hours after work of each day, since we set the exhibition on Thursday and I wanted a new painting also.  This one and two older ones were my contribution in this event at Ekavi center of Katerini that celebrated the Woman in many ways. The event was held this Friday evening and it was a pretty successful cooperation of the Union of Artists and the Union of Lawyers whose music band made the evening unforgettable.  Pictures of the event coming up... ;)

Grito Rock painting

This is my contribution to the third day's events of Grito Rock in the city of Katerini. Grito Rock is traveling around the world from city to city covering 300 cities of 30 countries.  During its three days in Greece, two of them were held in Thessaloniki and the third in Katerini. Why Grito Rock to come in a small city? Because we live under the protective shadow of Olympus, the mountain of Gods, and our task this year is Olympus to be recognized by UNESCO as a protected area, our wish is to help the mountain be let alone and its plants and animals, its magnificent ecosystem, keep on living away from the "plans" of some humans, excluding the mountain fans and the wanderers who wish only to visit the mountain for a while, breath the beauty and lighten their hearts.