Hello there! Hello! My name is Marina, and I'm here to find new friends and fellows. I studied English at university, but at the time I wasn't actually interested in English and so instead of studying English diligently I was fooling around during four semesters. It was a great opportunity for me to polish my English, but I lost it. It's pity. I'm so sorry that I didn't use this wonderful opportunity to study English for free. I majored in the pedagogics for elementary/primary school students (actually, for kids). And now I work for a school as a teacher. I work with kids of 8 to 9 years old. I love children very much though I don't have my own kids for now. I love my work because as an old professor of mine said, when you are teaching somebody something, you are at that very moment being taught yourself (it may sound clumsy in English, but the professor said these words in Russian, and I just translated them into English, one by one, word after word.) I live with my parents. They are old and in need of my help. I cook, wash, do domestic chores and go shopping in order to buy foodstuffs and other necessities. I don't have much time because I've got to work from dawn till dusk from Monday to Friday. Tomorrow is Sunday, and I've got to work on Sunday too due to the command of the principal (or the head teacher?) to accompany a group of kids going to the museum. I had already been to that museum for a thousand times, and I'm not interested in going there once more time. But the thing is that the colleague of mine who had been supposed to go there took a sick leave and said that she would not go there. Now she simply doesn't answer phone call neither mine nor the principal's When I have a free time, I spend it watching soup operas and walking in the forest. There is a pretty nice forest near my home, and I like to feed squirrels there. At the winter there are few squirrels there, but at summer there are twice as more squirrels as now. When I was a schoolgirl myself, I wanted to catch a squirrel and fetch her at home, but my daddy said that it is wrong to confine wild animals. "Wild animals have been supposed to live in the forest," he used to say. I cried when he forbade to do it, although now I think that he was 100% right. Now I myself teach my students not to try to catch wild animals and birds I would be very thankful if anybody would tell me the difference between "spare time" and "free time"? Is it okay to call kids of 8 years "students"? Thank you in advance