Hello there I haven't been here for a while. Recently I've quit my job so I've been a little bit upset. Approximately a month ago I started collecting some medical documents and analyses which needed to apply for a job in the police. They have a department which specifically coordinates touristic problems in Moscow and they demand English or other foreign languages. I went to an interview and passed it successfully, so the only issue was to collect a lot of medical documents and pass examinations in a special medical comittee and obtain their agreement for the job. At first everything went smoothly but then an oculist didn't want to put in my document a proper category, she said that my eyesight is not good enough. She turned me down. Maybe I had been oblivious to my short sight and I shouldn't have tried even to spend my time for it. Now it's only water under the bridge. I keep on learning English. Hopefully I use it somewhere and it'll be profitable in my life. I'm thinking about passing some exam to get a certificate or a diploma so I could put it in my resume. People usually give me credit for perseverance and say me that my Englush is good but in my own opinion I'm still far away from my goals. I can read books in English easily but still every time use a dictionary. Speaking skills are worse because I lack of experience, there's no one who could be my language partners. From time to time I attend some English meetings or other interesting events but I'm looking for a native speaker and that's not easy. The main problem in English right now for me is vocabulary and understanding native speaker when they speak to each other for instance in films and series. Vocabulary also puzzles me, I know a lot of words and memorize them all the time, also I learn a loads of set expressions and idioms. I've got on my laptop about a hundred idioms fro donloaded from BBC site. The thing is I don't know how to use them because most of them I don't remember when I speak or when I'm typing this silly text. I'd like to enrich my text but as you see there's nothing complicated. I could do if I really wanted and work on every sentence changing words but it would be unreal. In a real conversation I merely don't have time to mull over and try to remember great expressions and suitable words, so my speach is usually poor and simple. I suposse I've written too much. Thank you for reading and correcting my opus.