Anticipation? Reality! I was invited to several business meetings last week to discuss some issues about perspectives of further development of our IT-system. My participation in this project is still unclear so the situation was a bit odd. I was interviewed about current circumstances and some details refer to principles of work in our department. After the meetings, one of my colleagues asked me to give an impression of the happening situation in English. To be honest, writing business letters in English isn't one of my strong abilities, especially when I have to impress my indignation and moreover frustration about the topic. Anyway, I managed to write a letter with some unpleasant sentences in more or less acceptable form. I wrote the way as I usually write in Russian. But, it's very difficult to criticize someone who isn't right when he only speaks English and I can't express all my emotions. I guessed that the letter wasn't going to be the perfect one. Just imagine, when you are very annoyed about the problem and someone asks you to write ASAP about this problem in language that you know at a very intermediate level. Eventually, after I had sent the report I asked to correct it here. And today I've got ... not a correction, but just big reply with explanations about my ability to write that kind of letters. It was shattering and smashing! I thanked the author for his close attention and honesty! I was really very impressed to get such huge proper kick and now I'm gathering strength to write this text here. Yes, it's supposed that I have to know English better, much better in my situation, but I don't know. But I know that I'm going to do the best to improve my English!