A sign from above?

You might have been wondering why I took a break from posting... Well, we had another "simulation"! And this one was different... VERY different!

So, for some ordinary reason, there was this horrible woman who came into the classroom where we did the simulation and made us into all kinds of creatures, and also said that we would not have any chance to pass. Now, I have a piece of documentation which gives me 4 hours instead of 2, and also gives me access to folders with basically all of the essentials for the exam. It is like a cheat code if you know how to use it!

Anyways!

There were also teachers that supervised us during the simulation. For example, at the Romanian simulation, there were two teachers from our school, and they were chill as hell! But at the math simulation, there were these two ladies from the school where we were taking the simulation, and they apparently had something against me... For example, I was asking where my seat was, and one of them said that I should chill out. I did not even scream at her! Like, what was her problem with me?

After that was finished, I realized that this may be how normal school is after all. Let's just say that I am not in a school funded by the government or a similar institution. And seeing how teachers from a school funded by the state are, it kind of ruined the image I had about Romania even more! It was already ruined by the fact that Romania has corruption and instability more than any country in the EU, but now that I have seen this with my own eyes, it made the dream of moving to The Netherlands seem even more appealing than before.

Now that you've heard only negative things... let me tell you about some positive ones as well! So, at the Romanian test (exam, however you want to call it), there are two texts given. Usually, both of them are extremely boring, but these two were something different!

The first one was about two kids going through the forest to someone's sheepfold. And the second one was about someone just reconnecting with nature. As soon as I saw the title of the second text my mind instantly activated, the title in question being "Eu și vulpea" (translation from Romanian: Me and the fox). Now, if you searched deep enough on my blog and also my wiki, you might know that I am a part of the furry fandom and that I have a fox fursona named Russet Ashford.

When I was reading the second text, I felt something in my soul warming up. Not because of the text itself, but because I have a very strong connection with my fursona. Every time I hear just the word "fox" or anything related to it, I instantly activate my mind.

Sounds weird, doesn't it?

After I was done with the Romanian test, I talked with some of my classmates (mainly girls) about the second text, and they said as well that they thought of me while reading it. Isn't that fun? I personally think that this was a sign from God in which he told me, "You will succeed!"

So yeah, that was it! Another weird week, or may I say weeks, because I haven't posted anything new for the past month.

I added emoji support!

If you remembered the last time I did this on this blog, it was a mess... I was using Twitter's emojis back then, which still had support for older browsers like Internet Explorer since they were loaded as images and not fonts. And as you may expect, the emojis were VERY big! So big that they started to break the reading experience! So, after a few months of noticing this issue, I've decided to remove the custom emojis and let them be how the system decides.

But now, you may see that the Noto Color Emoji font displaying, and that is because just made it so that would be the Emoji font showing for everyone! No matter the platform!

I make this decision because I just added my YouTube RSS feed on the right side of the blog, which uses some emojies that may not be supported by all platform. For example, country flags (🇳🇱, 🇷🇴, 🇺🇲, 🇪🇺 etc.).

Besides that, I've chosen Google's emojies because they are the only Emoji font to receive the new approved emojies first. Which for me, is a big bonus.

Now I know that not all browsers and platform will be showing the Noto Color Emojis (Internet Explorer and older browsers), but at least I solved the problem with emojis not having a unified style across platforms!

Note: this change does not affect the mobile version of the blog. 

This must be the best year of my life!

 It's the middle of February and this is the first post I'm writing on this blog this month, you might be wondering why that is the case. Well, these past few weeks have been some of the most successful weeks in my entire life until this point. I got a 7,80 at mathematics (which is basically a B+ for those of you Americans), our history teacher got replaced with one of the best teachers in our school, and many more good things happened which I can't really describe right now...

Anyways! Let's start with the first one! So, the 7,80 at math. When I saw the test being handed to me with that grade written on it I thought I was dreaming, but no, it was real. Now the 3rd subject (the final part of the test) it was... incomplete... but at least the first 2 subjects I got 100% of the grade (which is basically a 6). This grade really gave me motivation that in June when the final test is, which will decide my future high school, I will get the same or maybe even more.

Now onto the next topic, the history teacher! He is one of the best teachers that ever walked on our school hallways. Why am I saying this? Because the way he explained the first lesson and the way he introduced himself, must be a gift directly from god. Now I will give very little detail about him just to create a little bit of background around himself, he has 2 jobs (the second one is the more interesting one) and he was even in The United States of America trough a program which allows European students to study during high school in America. Which just thinking about it, is super awesome! Now again, I will not get into details, but the way he told us it seems that you Americans have a much better school system (ignoring the whole school shooting stuff) than the one we have here in Romania. It's not even comparable on how better it is!

Anyways! I hope that he will never change and that we would have a smooth school year!

Now to end this post, I will just be saying that of everything goes according to plan. This summer will be the craziest one ever on my blog, wiki, YouTube channel, and also Bluesky (maybe).

Yes, I do have other social medias other than my YouTube channel and my blog!