Topics for the blog 15

1).What are plans on the summer holidays? Do you want to work during it or rest and travel?
2). What do you think about our exams in May and at the beginning of June?
3). What is the country of you dream? In which country you'd like to born (if you could chose it)? Which country you think is the most interesting and unusual for visiting?

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Tell us about the last film that you watched. Did you like it? Do you advice to watch it?
The last film I watch was a legend # 17. I really liked that film. That film is about the well-known Russian hockey player, Valeriy Harlamov, who become the world famous player. This film is biographical, and starts from the episode, when little Harlamov was in Spain (surprisingly, his mother was Spanish). There were running of the bulls and before them there were running brave men. In the road, where bulls were suppose to run there were sitting a little puppy. Harlamov saw him and ran to the road to save him from the way of the bulls. He took the dog away from the road, but at that moment one of the bulls stopped and saw Harlamov. The boy was standing along and the bull wanted to kill them, but at that moment an uncle of the boy came and he was a toreador and diverted a bull on himself and then make him to run to the others bulls. After that uncle asked Harlamov, why he didn't make with the bull as he did, and Valera answered that he could do nothing. Then the uncle said, that he can everything he want and wished him to find the business in which he would want to do everything and to become the best. That words impressed the boy very much. When he become a world famous hockey player during the match between USSR and Canada he remembered that words and that make him to do his best, despite he had a broken leg.
I really liked that film and advise everyone to watch it.

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Do you think that there are cases in which we must lie? Or should we say truth always? Do you agree with statement "Everybody lies"?

Yes, I think there are a lot of cases when it is better to lie partly or even fully. I'm against of lie about very important or principal questions, but if the question isn't very important nothing change if you try to say your opinion in more polite words and not as straight as you can do it. For example, when your very close friend or even your husband or wife ask you did you like her or his parents and honestly you didn't, of course, you can say: "No, I think that they are very strange people with stupid habits, have strange outlook on life and behave themselves absolutely irrationally. I don't want to communicate with them anymore". But if you say, for example: "I think, that they are quite usual people, of course, as all with strangeness, but it's doesn't matter because for me did I like them or not because I like you and I'll try to get on with them". In this statement you even don't straightly lie, you only don't say how much you didn't like them.But I think, that it is a type of lie. 

However I don't think that there are cases when you MUST lie. You always can say the truth. Another question is: "Is it better to lie?" And sometimes it is.

I also agree with the statement "Everybody lies". Someone lies every hour, someone once a year, but there is no a man in the Earth who never lies. I really assure in this.

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What are your plans for the spring break? Are you going to stay in Moscow or go somewhere else?
Now I'm really looking forward to that quite a big spring break because I'm so tired of studying that only when I think about it I started to feel myself bad and my mood become worse. 
To say the truth, May holidays will start for me at the end of that week, on 27 of April, as I'm flying to Paris on 28 and because of that I miss two days in the university. But I think that's ok because I miss only two lectures. However, I really afraid that on 29th of April there will be a rewriting of test on the linear algebra and I don't know what I can do in this situation, because I'm sure that my grade for that test will be lower than 4. But I'm trying not to think about that, because all problems it's better to decide only when they already came. 
I'm flying to Paris with my friend and we are going to be there for 10 days. I'm really happy, that we flying there in May, because I think it's the best time to visit Paris. It's the first time for both of us to be in Paris, but I've already been in France for a one time, but we stayed in Cannes. 
I'll return from Paris on 8th of May and then comes one of my favorite holidays: 9 of May, The Victory Day. I don't know why I love that holiday so much, it went from my childhood. Maybe because of spring weather, maybe because all people are coming out of their houses or maybe it's a concert near my house and I can watch a fireworks from my balcony. Also, I love holidays in May because on the trees appears the first leaves. 
But, unfortunately, to have that all I have to study during that week very hard and do four quite a big home assignments.

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In 1984, Winston has to face rats when he goes to Room 101 because he fears them more than anything.  What would be in your Room 101?  
I have too much fears that I can't choose only one of them, so I'll write about the most scared of them. 
The strongest fear I have is a fear of loneliness (that I will have neither family nor friends) and that thoughts comes to me quite often. Also, I afraid of being alone at night at my flat and I really don't know how  I will live along when I finish the university and become an adult. Moreover, to feel myself not lonely I need always to care about someone, no matter who he or she is, but I really need it. 
Another my quite strong fear is a phobia of porches. I really have a terrible feeling when I come away from my flat and go down the stares to the door on the street. Usually I don't use lift because to come out of it on the first floor is more frightening than going down by feet. I afraid that the lift doors will open and there will be someone staying by them. But I afraid porches only when I came out of my flat, when I return home it feels alright. I even know the reason of that phobia. When I was a little child I saw at TV news that at one of the houses a person was standing between the door to the street and the last door of the porch's first floor and that man killed several people who came out of their flats and going out to the street. At that news report were a lot of blood at the video-report and the porch at that video seemed me very alike to the porch in my house. So, that's why I always call at inter phone and wait when someone open the porch door for me, despite I always have keys with me. But I want my relatives to know that I'm already at the porch and if I don't come in five minutes they will come out to the porch and start to look for me. 
I think, that this two fears are quite enough, but I afraid of a lot of another things from big spiders and strange people to extreme attractions. 

Topics for blog 10

1) What was the most amazing birthday present you have ever received or get?
2) Do you think jealous is a normal feeling? How do you react if someone is jealous about you? How often are you jealous?
3) What was the most incredible trip you have ever had?

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1) What sports are your favourite ones? Describe which one you practise (or mb practised before, or want to practise).

I do yoga to relieve stress. Just kidding, I drink wine(c).

I like this quotation very much because it's really reflects my life, except the thing that I prefer champagne or lambrusco. It was a joke, now about more serious things. 

When I quitted ballroom dancing I thought that since that time I will never do any sport, but, happily, that hasn't happened. At the ten's form I decided to start do sport because I felt that my muscles start turn into fat and I couldn't run so fast as I could two years before. We were choosing a kind of sport quite a long time, but finally decided that yoga is the best sport for us because it helps to keep fit and to become calmer and more patient. It's really gives load on the muscles and help to forget about all problems for some time. 

Except yoga I like jogging at spring, but mostly when I'm going to do jogging it finished with walking because I have a weak willpower and walking and talking for me is more interesting than jogging. Also, this winter I went to the swimming pool and I liked it very much, but it's not very pleasant activity for me because when I just imagine how many infections there are this activity become very unpleasant for me.

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How much time do you usually spend on preparing to do your homework?(I mean drinking tea, sitting in social networks, watching tv ect) And what you usually do?

I liked this topic because it's a really big problem for me start doing homework without wasting time on other things. I'll try to write all thing on which I spent my time when I going to start my homework.

Usually I start with going to the kitchen and take a cup of tea or water from it. Then I write to somebody who is online in vkontakte has he or she already started to do that work and how difficult is it and how much time has he or she already spent on doing the assignment which I'm going to start. Then I patiently wait for an answer. After, I turn on music or started to chart with some of my friends if they catch me when I was waiting an answer from a person who is doing the same assignment. If nobody wrote me to that time I usually go to the kitchen again and look for any fruits. As I prefer pomegranates and grapefruits it's take quite a lot of time to eat that fruits. After that I can start to watch different videos on vkontakte. So, I can delay doing homework infinitely, it depends on how much time I have before the deadline. Happily, I haven't TV in my room and I never watch it, moreover, I hate a process of watching TV, if I need to watch something I prefer to watch it on my laptop, so I don't waste time on it. 

To sum up, I usually spend about 80% of time on preparing to do homework and only 20% on doing it. 

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Topic #1:  At this time of year, many people are getting tired of winter and looking forward to spring.  What do you look for as the first signs that spring is coming?  How do you deal with this last part of winter and wait patiently for spring?  What will you do when spring is finally here?

As usual, I was waiting for a spring during all autumn and winter, about a half of a year. But as it always happens with me I am not happy when the spring begins. There are several reasons about it:

Firstly, the weather in the beginning of March is quite cold, but this March is colder than usual. It's snowy, cloudy and cold. At the end of February I was hoping that the cold won't return and the weather would stay sunny and warm. I'm tired to wear warm coats and being cold at the university, I'm tired of wearing a hat, I'm tired that in some streets it's difficult to go fast because of snow, and I'm tired that warm wear makes people in public transport fatter than they are and there are less space for other people to stand. 

Secondly, at the beginning of every spring I have a spring depression. All things seems to me intolerable, I don't want to do anything or to talk with anyone except my best friends. The only thing I want at that moments is to lay down and fall asleep. This springs I also have some extra problems. It's related with my eighteen birthday which will be quite soon and I don't want to be an adult, marry a boring guy and don't see my friends because I will have to look at my children and take care of my husband and my friends will be forced to do the same, so we just won't have the time for meetings. I know that in 18 years I won't have a husband and children, but all moving in that direction and I would not be an exception. Moreover, now I only know what I don't want my life to be, but I don't know what I exactly want.

But there are some good moments at that spring: I'm going to Paris at the first decade of May with my best friend. I'm really looking forward to this trip because it's already impossible for me to stay in Moscow and every day to solve millions of different problems. I just want not to think and relax .That's all for now.

Topics for the post 5.

1. Winter Olympics Games at Sochi. What do you think about this event?
2. Meteorite in Chelyabinsk. Do you think it was really a meteorite or government experiment?
3. What's the most important for you in people's character? Which traits of character a person should have that you'll like him or her?

4. Would you prefer to raise your children in a big city like Moscow or in some more quiet place like Moscow region or farther?

In my opinion, it's really interesting theme and I thought about this a lot. For me, I decided that it's better if my children will be grow up in a big city and I want this city to be Moscow. Of course, there are a lot of difficulties with it, but I'd like to write about advantageous of living in a big city.

Firstly, in a big city it's easy to choose a school. I know, that it is not safe to allow a child at age of 7-9 years old return from school to home along. So, I will be forced to live near my children's school unless they'll become older. But  my children will get a good education then in any other place in Russia.

Secondly, in a big city there are many opportunities for different extra curricula's. Also there are many theaters, cinemas, circuses and museums. You can acculturate your child in this way.

But of course, at summer holidays I'd like to live at house near Moscow, or what's better go abroad and spend summer days with children at nature, near the sea. Also, I'd like that we wasn't the one family who goes there and it will be more better if someone of my friends with his or her family will go with us. It will be funnier as for me as for my children.

But now I glad that don't have children because there are too many problems with them.

3. The most memorable day in my life

To say the truth, I can't find the only one day that  I remember the most, but today I decided to write about The Last Bell day. Most Russians knows that day, but I'll describe this day for not Russians. At that day students finish go to school to the ordinary lessons, but there are some exams students should pass to get a document that they finish school successfully. At that day all students put on a uniform and    make for their teachers scenes from their school life. Usually students invite their parents to the school that day.
Now about why I remembered that day so much. Of course, you understand that The Last Bell day was  very important for me as for every student. And, what is very unusual for me, this day went without any troubles, except my white raincoat become green because I was laying at the grass. The official part  was great, but I wasn't participating at it. After that we went to the paint ball and spent the rest of the day extremely great. We were playing paint ball with classmates, communicating with them, eating shashlik. I really liked this day because I spent it all with my friends and classmates. 

2. My future goals

This winter holidays I was thinking quite a lot about my future goals and what I'm going to do after finishing HSE&NES bachelor. To say the truth, I haven't decided it yet because in my opinion there many problems and I don't know how to solve it. As you know, our bachelor  is the best in Russia and our professors say that they consider it will be more better for us if after finishing this bachelor we go to foreign graduate schools or foreign magistracy, because there is no better university in Russia than which we are studying at now. But I don't want to go to another country, even only for two years, because I have there my relatives and my friends whom I don't want to leave. Firstly, I wanted to go to work after our bachelor, but when I said that to my aunt who's working in TransCapital bank she said that this decision will be a very big mistake of mine because she would never take for a good position a worker who haven't finished a magistracy. Moreover, she said that in Russian corporations managers prefer to take to work workers with Russian education because workers with European or American education can do nothing productive in Russian firms. That's all my thoughts about education. But there is another big future plan that I have and which is more important for me. I want to get marriage at 25-26 years. That's all for today. 

1. My favorite book

In this post I'm going to write about my favorite book. Actually, I haven't the only one book that I like the most, I have a few favorite books, but I decided to tell you about "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. This book seemed to me very unusual and interesting when I was reading it. 

Firstly, the main character is a child who lost his father during the terrorist attack at 11.09.01.  The most part of the story the author tells to readers how this boy is trying to live through this tragedy. In my opinion, he's trying to understand how such a terrible thing thing could happen to such a cool guy as his father was. During all story this boy, Thomas, remembers how he came from school because of canceled lessons and heard the phone ringing. Even at that moment he understood or maybe feels that it was his father calling. He knew that he was at the Trade Center at that moment, but he only stays and even couldn't move to answer the call. 

The second thing, that I liked in this book, is that from the first sight it's seemed that the boy's tragedy is the only one in this book, but after reading all book, you understand, that all his relatives, even his disappeared grandfather, have their own tragedies. Every of Thomas' relatives somewhen lost his or her  very close men. But some of them could live through it, but others couldn't and live all life at the past.

So, I'd like to advise everyone to read this book.