My typical day in maternity leave My typical day begin at 8:00, time when my youngest son wake up and start cry. I try to remind myself that “Children are the flowers of our lives” and get up. My husband get up before us and he on his way to work. We wash quickly, then get breakfast for three. We usually have for breakfast oatmean, eggs and cocao for breakfast. Then we go to playground. Sometimes we go to the food store near our house. After walk we have lunch, then my sons take a nap and I have free time. After awakening children play at home or on the street Dinner come. Usually we have dinner with the whole family. I'm waiting when my children will grow up and my daily life will not be so routine.

Description of the photo The photo shows a beautiful young girl. She is in her twenties, I think. She has a fresh face, mouth and dark eyes so serious, a honest and thoughtful expression. She isn't wearing make-up. She is as pale as snow, sprinkled with freckles. Freckles dotted her nose and cheeks, all her face. She has not dyed, black hair. It is long and a little wavy. She isn't wearing earings or glasses. She is probably a student

When I was a child I dreamed of becoming... ... a teacher. When I was 10 years old I want to become a Needlework Teacher, because I like sewing and embroidery, especially cross-stitching. I remember my classmate said that it wouldn’t pay good (But now I understand that good hand-made things cost a lot of money). Then I want to become a Programming Teacher. I liked programming for creation, you can create something out of nothing, it’s like art or music. Also programming helps develop critical thinking skills and problem solving. But, of course, I didn’t think about it when I was a child, I enjoyed programming as fun.

On the same wavelength There are many important people in my life. But I want to tell about my sister now. We are siblings and close friends at once. We do not like in appearance: she’s tall and slim, but I’m medium height and inclined to corpulence. However, our souls are on the same wavelength. When we lived with our parents, we had different friends, different hobby groups, but we liked the same books and had the same earworm songs. Now we live at a distance of 1200 kilometres, I have a own family, she has a brilliant professional career. We have a deep connection to one another as before, we like the same YouTube channels, movies and,of course, books.

Για μένα Με λένε Ντάρια.Είμαι είκοσι έξι χρονών. Είμαι από την Ροσία, από την Ούφα. Εγώ μένω στην Μόσχα. Είμαι παντρεμένη. Έχω δύο παιδιά.O μεγαλύτερος γιος μου είναι τρεί χρονών.O μικρός γιος μου είναι ένα χρονών. Είμαι πληροφορικής-αναλυτής. Δουλεύω από απόσταση. O άντρας μου είναι μηχανικός(engineer). Δουλεύει στο γραφείο. Μαθαίνω αγγλικά kai ελληνικά. Το να μαθαίνεις γλώσσες είναι ενδιαφέρον.

A testing I didn't think testing is userful. My opinion changed when I read the book "Make it stick" by Peter Brown. The experiments show that taking tests helps our memory. Especially effective is an interval testing. You need to take the test immediately after getting information and then with increasing intervals. So testing isn't a waste of time. But I don't think testing is not enough to check your knowledge.

An exercising and a brain Today I have watched on youtube movie by Anastasia Kay. Her videoblog is popular in the Russian-speaking Internet ("Runet"). In this video Anastasia spoke what help her to keep her brain in shape and to win laziness (?not to be lazy). First point is a sleeping, second point is a diet and third point is jogging. She said that not hard exercises will have been activating a brain for 2-3 hours. At this time you will be more focused because exercising affects neurons in the brain. Neurons become stronger and create more communications each other. Scientists have found that exercising increases the ability of remembering new foreign twenty percent. So I should start to do exercises tomorrow. Thank you for the corrections!

How has the Internet changed studying? Pref. I want to start a 7-days writing marathon. I hope it will help growth of my active vocabulary. I don't like write even in Russia, so my articles will be short. First topic(or question) of the marathon is "How has the Internet changed studying?" I think Internet has changed studying, because information has been accessible. Now we can find books of authors, who live far of you and even sometimes you can communicate with them by Internet. We can watch movies with lections of famous professors and researchers. Internet has opened (the?) door for a distance education and made easier a self-study. Thank you for the corrections and criticism

Cyprus Last week I returned from Cyprus. There I practice my English: I could ask mactches in a supermarket and silver spoons in an antique shop, I had audition in open-air market,when hear how much are bananas: thirty or thirteen cents . I travelled with my family: my husband and my sons. We went to museums. One of them was Museum of Natural History in Larnaka. Also we went to restaurants. We liked fish restaurant Zephyros on the beach with view over the lovely see. In Cyprus my children played on playground, and they understood another children without language. But I’m need good English and I’m studying its.