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I'm lucky, and maybe you are too. There is become harder and harder for me to write about my daily stuff because for now, every day is like the day before. The main purpose I am writing is to improve my English skills. Instead of writing about what I did this week, I have to dive deep into my feelings and dig out of them my attitudes towards the situation in the world. After a month of sitting in my flat in the middle of Russia, I began to realize that I am a really lucky guy in contrast to most people. I even want to count the lucky counts. Some of them are very mundane, but anyway. I paid out my mortgage the month before quarantine in my city was declared. If I had lost my job, the problem with payments wouldn’t have bothered me. But I didn’t lose my job. Even my salary has not decreased, despite the fact that I am not actually working for now. So I've got plenty of time, and it happened at the exact moment when my English level becomes well enough to read and watch educational videos without Russian subtitles and checking vocabulary every 5 minutes. I think it is the first time in my life when I am using my free time really effectively. I started reading Reddit since the previous week. Also, I’ve discovered Quora. I registered at EDX and, OMG, how many useful courses are there! I spent all previous week reading recommendations and scrolling lists of free courses without the ability to choose one or two of them! Of course, we have a lot of resources and free educational courses in Russian. But there are big differences between quality, quantity, and in the ease of finding. I had tried studying English since I was 20 (I also studied it at school). But only after 9 years I've reached any meaningful level. And I am wondering what if I did it then! How much could I learn… I don’t know if it’s appropriate but I would say that if you guys have the ability of understanding English (of course you have!) and for now you don’t have any real problems related to this situation (I certainly hope so) you definitely should spend this time wisely.

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I'm lucky, and maybe you are too.

There It is become harder and harder for me to write about my daily stuff life because for now, every day is like the day before. The main purpose reason I am writing is to improve my English skills. Instead of writing about what I did this week, I have to dive deep into my feelings and dig out of them my attitudes towards the situation in the world.

After a month of sitting in my flat in the middle of Russia, I began to realize that I am a really lucky guy in contrast to most people. I even want to count the lucky counts reasons. Some of them are very mundane, but anyway.

I paid out off my mortgage the month before quarantine in my city was declared in my city. If I had lost my job, the problem with payments wouldn’t have bothered me, but I didn’t lose my job. Even my salary has not decreased, despite the fact that I am not actually working for now. So I've got plenty of time, and it happened at the exact moment when my English level becomes well became good enough to read and watch educational videos without Russian subtitles and without checking vocabulary every 5 minutes.

I think it is the first time in my life when I've been am using my free time really effectively. I have started reading Reddit since the previous last week. Also, I’ve discovered Quora. I registered at EDX and, OMG, how many useful courses are there! I spent all of the previous week reading recommendations and scrolling lists of free courses without the ability to choose one or two of them! Of course, we have a lot of resources and free educational courses in Russian, but there are big differences between quality, quantity, and in the ease of finding them.

I had tried studying have been trying to study English since I was 20 (I also studied it at school), but only after 9 years I've have I reached any kind of meaningful level. And I am wondering what if I did had done it then! How much could have I learnt… I don’t know if it’s appropriate but I would say that if you guys have the ability of understanding English (of course you have!) and for now you don’t have any real problems related to this situation (I certainly hope so) you definitely should spend this time wisely.

Great essay, I'd agree that free online courses are fantastic!
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I’m sure you have heard this for every time from your favorite bloggers, friends, teachers. But as a person who just find and opened a new big world of opportunities a would repeat it. You have many more opportunities than many people in the world. For example, a couple of days ago I compare a quantity of work offers at the field I am interested in between LinkedIn and one of the most popular job search sites in Russia. It was about sports management related jobs. So I found several hundred offers at LinkedIn and only two (!) on the Russian site. One of them was a salesman at a sneaker store and the second is a statistics related to freelance work I already had! I don’t want to say that my country is bad or something about it. Of course, we have a lot of opportunities (at least in my field) if you dig deep. I just tried to describe my experience and mind-blowing feelings when I saw the difference between opportunities and ease of getting useful information. I understand that our world has changed and nobody can tell what will happen next month. But one thing I know for sure, there may not be a better time than now to change yourself. Especially in this horrible moment. So look around, maybe you're the luckiest person.

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