Note 1

Note 1. Hello, world!
Okay, I’m finally in! So this is my 1st note on italki, but I hope not the last.
A week ago I started writing a real handwritten diary to improve my English, and it was supposed to be a daily occurrence for 3 months.
The first day was a success, but in a few days I started to skip my diary notes. It was amazing how easily I gave up on it.
But it's Monday today, and that is known to be a perfect day for new starts and self improvement!
I hope that my public diary will make me feel more responsible.
It won't be a long note today, and the main thing that I should do is to present myself!
My name is Katerina or Katya, as we say in Russian/Russia. I guess you may know the great Russian song - Katiusha? 
I really love my name, and am very grateful to my parents for their choice.
The country I live in is the Russian Federation, more exactly, I live in the cultural capital - Saint Petersburg.
But it's not the place where I was born and raised. My birthplace is a southern country, one of the republics of post USSR, today a part of CIS, the country with great wine and fruit, perfect climate and a lot of sunny days throughout the year.
I'm not gonna tell you its name today, and maybe some of you will have already guessed :)* 
But I promise to tell more about it in future.

Thank you all in advance for reading this and your corrections!)
And see you soon!

P.S. it's me in the photo**, in a beautiful park from Petersburg - Elaghin Park.
And lilac - is one of my favourite spring flowers ( but we have here a very late spring and no summer :)

*I am not sure where you want to go. Do you want to write informally or formally? Formally one would never write 'gonna'; informally it is everywhere.

**It is me in the photo=informal. It is I in the photo (better; I am in the photo) =formal.

Very well written!