I stick to the challenge! Some friends are kind to say to me like "Hang in there! Keep posting!" but actually I do! I still stick to my challenge to study German but I've moved to another site. italki has enormous number of active users and that's a good point to use italk but when it comes to writing practice, I think the site is better than here. I keep posting my entries there. Try lang eight :) My user name there is K, who learns German and Russian. If you have an account there, add me :)