Finding partners.

I am finding English language partners. I am interested in American English,so I want to find one American native partner to exchange language with, but maybe because of equation of time, I seldom find one online. What a pity!
How can I find one who has fixed time to exchange languages?

The way to success

Everyone wants to be successful and everyone wants to find a way to success. But, what's the way to success? What should we have when
we are on the way to success? A right means patient, confidence,
possessiveness, and so on; I believe there are necessarily many persons(that is technically correct, but in America it's more common to use "people")
will tell me that. However, I don't think so. Of course, those are indispensable
and play important roles in the process to success.

In my view, what I consider the most important to success is to make/making full
preparations. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the
first four hours sharpening the axe." It's a famous remark by Abraham Lincoln.
That made me reminded/reminds me of a well-known Chinese saying, "sharpening your knife won't waste your time for cutting your faggot." I am firmly supportive 

of this view that good preparations lead to success. Without full preparations,
something like a right means patient...if we thought those that are important are just nothing; we would be probably end up in failure.

Thus, no matter western or eastern, they are so similarly telling us one thing... that
making full preparations is a most important to be successful.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I am learning English language, because I want to study and live in England or Сanada.
My native language is Russian, and I was born in Russia.
My favourite activities are sports,photography,painting, drawing and animals. I like to go ice skating and go swimming.

Which do you like to read magazines, novels or poems and why?

Personally, I prefer to read poems to magazines and novels. There are a couple of reasons to name.

The first reason is that poems can make me calm down better than magazines and novels do. Before I read poems, I was bad-tempered and easily-impulsive. However, it is the slow rhythm of poems that helps me control my emotions.

Another reason is that poems can express my feelings better than the magazines and novels. Since my girlfriend left to study abroad, I have read ancient Chinese poems every day and written my own poems once a week to express that I miss my girlfriend deeply.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

My native language is Chinese, and I grew up in China. But, I like English very much, so I want to make friends who speak well in English. I am willing to help you learn Chinese.