Do you have driving license?

Yes, I have had a driver's licenses for 20 years now. I bought my first car when I was 30; at first I used to drive it just to the city and nearby villages, now I drive to cities further away from my city, like Seville, Madrid or Lisbon - I must to admit though that I don`t like to drive.

Well done! Many people don't like driving, but sometimes it is a necessity of our daily lives!

Full Moon Festival [262]

The Full Moon Festival of this year was on September 19th. It is one of the most important holidays of in China. So, people do not go to work and children do not go to school either. Many people return to their hometown, or visit their parents if they are alive.

We can not imagine the Full Moon Festival without a moon cake. I mean, the moon cake is an indispensable thing for the Full Moon Festival. It is same one as the dumplings of for the Spring Festival. We can find many kinds of moon cakes at the supermarket: some are very sweet, some are very hot spicy. Some people buy it one for themselves and some people buy it one to give as a present.

(This is a liberal translation of a Chinese text from "http://bitex-cn.com/". I do not post the original text, so just correct my English. Thank you in advance.)

Very interesting, well done :)

Road Trip

Many people dream of travelling. I am no exception. Especially in America and in the car.

I love travelling and would love to do a road trip anywhere, but especially Europe :)

My First Couchsurfer

I travelled along through our country by motorbike with my friend 4 months ago. Two girls on a motorbike and we had a great time together. She is a member of couchsurfing and she got in contact with hosts on the website. We was were lucky on our way when as we got helps from some couchsurfing hosts who let us stay in their home for free. Futhermore, they helped us to organize our time and advised us where should we visit, told us about local culture or funny stories. After I came back, I wanted to help some travellers myself, then so I created an account on the couchsurfing website. I got some couch requests from some travellers, but all of them are were foreigners. I'm not confident with my English so I didn't mind hosting host them. But finally, I accepted one couch request from a Singapore traveller and, one from France and the other from India. I picked up hosted my first couch surfer last night. He is staying in my room now. He is friendly and it isn't too hard as I think since he can understand what I say. I slept well last night but he didn't. He got a body pain because of the bed that wasnt spread a mattress :) ? (I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. There wasn't a mattress on the bed or the bed is different to what he is used to sleeping on?)

Well done for having the confidence to host travellers, it is a wonderful experience!

When you are abbreviating words like I'm, you'll, didn't etc, don't forget to add the ' inbetween the first and the second word eg I + am = I'm - the ' goes between the I and the m which represents the second word.

Essay *Talents* 253 words (40 min. didn't use dictionary)

It is generally believed that some people are born with certain talents, sport or music for instance and others are not. However, it is sometimes claimed that any child can be taught to become a good sports person or musician. 

Personally, I think that any child can be taught to become a good sports person or musician.

Firstly, children or adults with strong motivation can learns anything. Some people think that without talent a person cannot becomes an artist, for example. But I know it isn’t true. For instance: my Aunt, she didn’t have any talent for painting but she had strong motivation and after many hours of practising and finally she graduated from the University of Arts with the highest marks.

Secondly, in our world we have the Paralympics. Even people who are born without legs or hands can becomes a good sportsperson. (Sportsperson means the person can be a man or a woman.) 

At the same time we can find another opinion.

Firstly, people who have talent can make a masterpieces. They have a very creative minds. For instance, Mozart's with musical talent. Could he have made such a wonderful and magical music without his talent? (Past tense as Mozart is dead)

Secondly, people who have a talent find it easier to create more beautiful things easier. They don’t need to spend a lot of time with studying something.

In conclusion I can say that talent is needed for quick results and talend can helps you to choose your occupation in the future.
At the same time I think that everybody should trains every day, especially sportspeople.
If a person has really strong motivation, he can do everything.

Well done! Very interesting.

Winter is almost ending but it is still cold

I live in Lima, Peru. Winter is almost ending, but it is still cold. There are some days that the weather is a bit hot, blue sky and sunny. On the other hand, there are days that are totally cloudy, wet, rainy, and windy. Fortunately, summer comes closer every day. I can't wait for summer days at the beach!

I know the feeling. We are ending summer here and the weather is like winter already. I don't want it to be winter already! Enjoy your summer!

What are you doing to improve your English?

I read the italki articles, I watch videos, I listen to lessons in English.

This is a very good way to learn. I find that reading comics is helping me with learning my language. I see new sentences and vocabulary and the pictures help me to understand things I don't know. Some people find that listening to English podcasts is very helpful.

Travel to Europe

I am thinking of travelling (in the future) to Europe the next year, I want to kwon some recommendations; for example: which countries and the places to visit. about it.. I would love to go to Italy and Holland is an interesting country. Can you tell me about your experiences in Europe? Thanks

Hi Alvaro! Europe is great. I love Germany - Berlin and Munich would be the most obvious choices for culture and Stralsund and Rugen island are very interesting cities too.  Holland is wonderful and the people are very friendly. If you like cycling I can recommend riding around Holland and staying with people on warmshowers.org. Nice places to visit there are Gouda, Amsterdam and Efteling (if you like theme parks!). Scandinavia is so beautiful. I especially loved Norway. It is a little expensive as a tourist but well worth it. A trip to the Vatican in Italy is a must. A very special experience. I also visited Romeo and Juliet's balcony in Verona and Venice and Rome are very special too. I would recommend coming into Holland and just going around. Talk to people, they will point you in the direction of interesting things and places and then make your way across to the East of Europe. I hope you have a great time! Vicki