What’s on my mind (Jan-23) This week is going to be essential for my personal development and for my life in general since I have decided to go deeper in language learning. Nowadays I assess myself as an intermediate student or a little bit more as it show (approximately) online test’s scores, so my goal is to achieve upper intermediate level by May. Perhaps it sounds quite challenging, however my classes at university are over so there is no lack of time for learning English. To fulfill my goal, I prepared for myself a highly intensive program with loads of daily activities such as reading a book, watching YouTube channels and comedy shows, studying grammar, online lessons from native speakers, and many others. The key element in this study program is practice (oral and written), ability to produce content in English, that would be my indicator. Other than that, I also have an appointment with my professor on this week, we have to discuss further directions of my research paper. Usually our meetings are quite informal which is not common in Russia. I can have just a regular, normal conversation with my prof sitting in a café before we get to work. Despite the fact I have free time, there is still a lot of things are supposed to be done in order to graduate successfully. It requires significant amount of discipline, motivation and willpower to achieve my goals. A few days ago I ran into online meditation course consisted of 42 days of practical lessons and I am thinking of joining it, may be on this week. Wish me luck guys). Sincerely yours, I.