Letter: Advice on travelling in your country

Let's start with travelling. There're a lot of amazing places you're obliged/you must must see. I suggest you begin your trip from the West of Ukraine/Western Ukraine from the city of L’viv. It's a beautiful European city which is very popular among Ukrainians for its architecture, history and, most of all, for its atmosphere. This city has a long and complicated history. L’viv through the centuries was a Polish, Austro-Hungarian, USSR and Ukrainian city. It was one of the most developed cities in the medieval times in Europe. L’viv is one of the first Ukrainian cities that received Magdeburg's rights. Also there are the Carpathians Mountains in the Western Ukraine. Goverla is the highest mountain. It's sized about 2000 meters.

The next point can be our capital - Kyiv. Kyiv is one of the oldest cities in the Eastern Europe. It was established in the 5th century. According to legend/according to a legend it was established by three brothers Kiy, Shek, Khoriv and their sister Lybidda. Kyiv is a beautiful city and is considered as not only an administrative capital, but also a culture and business capital of Ukraine. You certainly should visit such attractions like Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the spiritual center of the Kyivan Russ), the Independence square, St. Andrew's and St. Sofia's churches, the Golden Gates of Kyiv. Moreover, I can guarantee that the view from hills on the right bank of the Dnipro on this river are something  you will remember your whole life. [could possibly re-order sentence] You can also see the buildings of the Verkhovna Rada (the parliament of Ukraine), the Cabinet of Minister's, and the National Bank of Ukraine and so on.

Then we can go to the Kharkiv that was the first capital of the Ukrainian SSR. It's also a student’s capital. There are more than twelve higher educational institutions and more than 300, 000 students. Kharkiv is famous for its social realism style in architecture. Here is situated the first European skyscraper - the building of State Industry. It's really enormous. I'll show you our beautiful park that is the most charming in Ukraine. You can also visit the seventh biggest square in the world - the Square of freedom.

You can't visit Ukraine without visiting Odesa. It's like it called "a pearl on the sea". Odesa is a sunny city on the coast of the Black Sea. This city is very famous and is visited by a huge amount of tourists. There're a lot of sightseens/sights to see, such as Odesa's Opera, Potemkin's stairs, a sea port, a lot of statues and monuments to famous citizens of the city.

Notes: Excellent writing! Very advanced and fluent. I've only made a few changes to some language used -- these changes help the writing flow a little more in places/error fixes :^) Keep up the excellent work, Dima!

7/13/2015

Fireflies River Cruises
As the boat was sailing further and further into forest, it left behind all the houses which were adorned with little lamps along the banks. It entered into the inner part of the river which was flanked by the mangrove forest. The darkness set in and the sky changed its color from deep orange into inky black. We started to see the trees lit/light up with some flickering lights. Slowly, as the boat was ferrying us further in, hundreds of sparkles started to appear. Hundreds of fireflies lit up and decorated the mangrove trees; it was like nature’s stunning display of Christmas light, blinking on and off against the black background and the silhouette of the trees.
It was such a breathtaking view!

Note: excellent writing! I've moved a couple of words around which help it flow a little better :) great work Misa!

My home town

My home town is very far from my home - it is in Cheng Dou. There, all the people eat spicey food but, I don't like to eat it. However, my sister likes to eat it, and my mom likes too. So this is my home town.

(I changed a couple of words - it's better not to begin sentences with 'and') :D