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Please, correct my mistakes. My favourite place in Saint Petersburg. Today I thought... What if I make friends with a foreigner via Internet, and he (or she) decides to visit my hometown, Saint Petersburg, one day. They may want to meet me and ask me to show them around the city. And what can I actually show and tell them? Unfortunately, I'm not very good at History. Well, what if they say: "Please, take me to your favourite place". Where will I take them to? It's a shame, but I don't know. And I'd better find this out before that situation happens. So, the place. The place in Sain Petersburg. What should it be? A palace? A park? A bridge? Maybe a yard? It's really hard to choose, but I need to think of something really special. Unforgettable. Oh, I think I remember one such place. It's unusual, not ancient, but very new. It's situated at the edge of the city, close to the Gulf of Finland. And it's like a ghost area at the moment. There are lots of new houses there where people don't live in yet; there are roads with traffic lights off where car driving is forbidden. But people are allowed to be there, and they walk, cycle, rollerskate, skateboard, etc... This place makes me feel free 'cause there I don't need to observe the usual Traffic Laws: I can cross the road wherever I want, play with a ball on the roadway and many other things. And at the same time this place makes me remember about time 'cause some day this idyll ends. So while I'm there I'm learning to value the very moment of my life. I know that foreigners might expect something else. A museam. Or a square. And I'm going to learn some history things to stop being ignorant. But that place is different from all these things, and I will definetely recommend to visit it.

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My favourite place in Saint Petersburg. (Don''t ask for people to correct your text, that's what we are here for. But you wrote a very good title.)

Today I thought... What if I make friends with a foreigner via Internet, and he (or she) decides to visit my hometown, Saint Petersburg, one day. They may want to meet me and ask me to show them around the city. And what can I actually show and tell them? Unfortunately, I'm not very good at History.

Well, what if they say: "Please, take me to your favourite place". Where will I take them to? It's a shame, but I don't know. And I'd better find this out before that situation happens.

So, the place. The place in Sain Petersburg. What should it be? A palace? A park? A bridge? Maybe a yard? It's really hard to choose, but I need to think of something really special. Unforgettable.

Oh, I think I remember one such place. It's unusual, not ancient, but very new. It's situated at the edge of the city, close to the Gulf of Finland. And it's like a ghost area at the moment. There are lots of new houses there where people don't live in yet; there are roads with traffic lights turned  off where car driving is forbidden. But people are allowed to be there, and they walk, cycle, roller skate, skateboard, etc...

This place makes me feel free 'cause there I don't need to observe the usual traffic laws: I can cross the road wherever I want, play with a ball on the roadway and many other things. And at the same time this place makes me remember about time 'cause some day this idyll ends. So while I'm there I'm learning to value the very moment of my life.

I know that foreigners might expect something else. A museum. Or a square. And I'm going to learn some history things to stop being ignorant. But that place is different from all these things, and I will definitely recommend them to visit it.

What excellent writing! I wish I could write like that in Spanish. And yes, people do come. I've been working with a guy in China for the last 6 years here on Skype, and he was here with his son for a week. I imagined I'd have the same problem as you, as here in this very isolated part of eastern Canada, there is no bus services, no English TV or radio, few people and nothing to do or visit. Well, they passed hours playing on the beach, visited a marine research center, walked in the forest, watched wild animals, etc. You might be surprised that Saint Petersburg has a lot more fascinating places than you ever imagined. Keep writing, but I think you are ready to write short stories, your autobiography or something more substantive as you grammar is really good.

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Please, correct my mistakes. My favourite place in Saint Petersburg.

Today I thought... What if I make friends with a foreigner via Internet, and he (or she) decides to visit my hometown, Saint Petersburg, one day. They may want to meet me and ask me to show them around the city. And what can I actually show and tell them? Unfortunately, I'm not very good at history.

Well, what if they say: "Please, take me to your favourite place". Where will I take them to? It's a shame, but I don't know. And I'd better figure this out before that situation happens.

So, the place. The place in Sain Petersburg. What should it be? A palace? A park? A bridge? Maybe a yard? It's really hard to choose, but I need to think of something really special. Unforgettable.

Oh, I think I remember one such place. It's unusual, not ancient, but very new. It's situated at the edge of the city, close to the Gulf of Finland. And it's like a ghost area at the moment. There are lots of new houses there that people don't live in yet; there are roads with traffic lights that have not been turned on, where car driving is forbidden. But people are allowed to be there, and they walk, cycle, rollerskate, skateboard, etc...

This place makes me feel free 'cause when I am there I don't need to observe the usual traffic laws: I can cross the road wherever I want, play with a ball on the roadway and many other things. And at the same time this place makes me remember about consider the value of time 'cause some day this idyllic time will ends. So while I'm there I'm learning to value the very each moment of my life.

I know that foreigners might expect something else: a museum, or a square. And I'm going to learn some history things to avoid being ignorant. But that place is different from all these things, and I will definitely recommend to that my friends visit it.

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