First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello, I was born in the decline Soviet Union era and my conscious life started with the restructuring. I grew up in not quite the favorable district of Novosibirsk city, that located in Siberia. My school and teachers were good but sometimes for my group did not have enough teacher of English. But most importantly, I had no interest for learn English. Exponential growth of trade, thugs, criminals, gang and mafia in those years did not give exact purpose for my careers and who can I be. Later came the computer, the Internet and globalization. I choosed IT as vector for my career and became a software developer and of course soon discovered that English is one of the keys to my career. All the latest technical documentations, actual books professional forums, podcasts in English. And the most of our customers are the US companies so communications and meetings also in English. For tourism also desirable to know English, here's a little joke - customs control: "Occupation?", russo touristo: "no, just visiting" :) For writting and reading Google Translate, Lingvo.ru and Lingualeo.ru my favorite friends. With listening, speaking, oral English are not so easy. I cannot listen BBC, my vocabulary is poor, usually I cannot understand rapid speech and I haven't fluency for my speech, and sometimes I forget words, even maybe simple words. I love sports, Thai boxing, horizontal bar, workout, bicycle and sport motorbike driving. Ad my cat gave birth to 5 kittens, give a good home, please see parents at the foto.