Who I wanted to be when I was a child When I was a child I wanted to work at different places. It depended on places where I been before, books that I read, people I met that time and many other factors. One day I wanted to be a doctor who heals children, and next day I changed my previous dream and started to dream about another job. I can remember clearly how I wanted to work at the zoo. That period of time I was very fond of books about animals. There are a lot of excellent Soviet authors who wrote about nature and animals: Yevgeny Charushin, Vitaly Bianki, Vera Chaplina and so on. The last one worked at the Moscow Zoo for more that 20 years, so she knew well the subject she wrote about. I was very impressed by her experience and wanted to follow in her footsteps. I went to the Leningrad Zoo by the underground and looked at animals imagining how it would be great to work there and take care of all those furry creatures. One time I was going to be a yardman. There were too much rubbish and dust at the city streets so I decided I must help people to live in tidy world. I closed my eyes and saw how beautiful the world would be without garbage. I dreamed about flowers and trees instead of mountains of tins, plastic bags and mud. I didn't become either a zoo worker or an yardman, but I still love animals and nature. I can't hit a cat or spit on the road.