My homework I had to translate the sentenсes from Russian into English. Here is what I got. :) 1) Yesterday Rita wrote a to-do list that she should do in February. She told me that she would be very busy in February because she will begin a new project. We talked on the phone for some hours and had time to talk a lot. We are friends for fifteen years. We studied at the college together. 2) Last year we decided to do a renovation. Before this we have done the renovation 12 years ago and I was afraid that this time the renovation would be so difficult as the last time. However everything was good! The designer had helped us with a lot of questions and we finished the renovation exactly that time as we had planned. We thought about design for about a year, and the renovation was for about a month and half. And now I live in the flat of my dreams. 3) One of my friends always enters in extreme travels. Last year he hitchhiked in Europe for some months. When he had told me about this, I answered, that I thought this is very dangerous. But he said that it was untrue. Yesterday we met and he said that he would go to Nepal next month. 4) I don’t like the New Year Holidays and I don’t prefer to celebrate those. In my opinion, they are overemphasized. Every year people are bustling and preparing instead to have a good rest or to travel. But my husband likes a New Year a lot. When he was young his parents always make a big beautiful celebration. He said that he was associated a New Year with a family and a happiness. Last year we decided to compromise: we celebrated the New Year in the travel. 5) Lately Liza and her friends have been making a hen-party every month. They have brought this tradition 5 years ago when they met together to celebrate her housewarming and decided to meet every month. They talked, drank a vine and cooked something tasty or knit. But last time they don’t meet so often because Kathy gave birth to a daughter and Margaret enrolled in the master's degree. 6) Lately he has been thinking about life a lot. I think that an accident severely affected to him and he rethought about a lot of things. He always talks about searching of a new job and movement.

The Christmas star At the beginning of January I bought the flower – poinsettia, people call it «The Christmas star». It is really beautiful flower, but it is very capricious. It begins to lose its leaves, if it didn’t like anything. Sometimes I don’t understand what it didn’t like in this moment. It is very difficult thing, to grow poinsettia… Do you have this flower at home?