Hi Sasha, This is an excellent piece of writing. The only thing to point out is that with countries we don't use 'the' article. So it would be 'consolidate all of Ukraine'. Hope this helps. Adam

Hi Carlos. Both are good, however, 'on the flip side' is a slightly better alternative. 'For one thing' can be use to point out a fact or a reason, but not always as a counter argument to what has already been said.

When we are talking about a time phrase such as 'next week' 'next year' 'last week' 'last year etc. we generally don't use a preposition. For example, 'I am going to play football next week.' is a grammatically correct sentence. Whereas 'I'm going to play football in/at next week.' isn't correct.

start!!

I`m thinking of studying English more,so I`ve started using italki!
If I get to use English little by little, I wonder if the day will come when I can use English satisfactorily.

I am a little tired today

This morning I woke up at 4:50am and could not fall asleep again. Usually, this kind of thing does not happen. My friend told me perhaps it was because I was stressed, however, I do not think so. I am happy every day and I do not feel stressed.
This Friday is the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival, my friend who lives in Tokyo is going to come to my home and stay with me this weekend. She is not only beautiful but also kind. Last night she called me and told me that she wants to drink wine, eat cake and spicy snacks. I told her I would prepare whatever she wanted to eat just feel free to let me know and I would try to cook or buy it. I hope she has a good time with me because she is an important friend. We`ve experienced a lot and grown up together. We call each other every day, sometime to practice English, sometimes to share something interesting and ask for suggestions. To be honest, she is more like my family instead of a friend.

I was sleepy just now, but writing English has refreshed me. It is amazing!
Here I want to review what I studied from “Drop Dead Deva” this morning.

I don’t understand. If her soul was up there, and her body is right there, whose body is her soul in?
Apparently, a ditzy lingerie model was practicing her catwalk on the pier, hit her head on the tackle box. She flatlines. Old Jane’s soul goes into her body.
That kind of thing doesn’t happen.
Do you remember what happened to me?
Right. It’s okay.
She accused me of stealing her life and then destroying everything that she cared about.
Ugh! You fixed her split ends and got her mom into therapy. She should kiss your feet.
I know. Right?
Hello…Okay…Okay…Fine.
That was her. She was at my office. Well, what she called her office. I guess she wants to see me.
Tell her she can’t have her Porsche back.

ありがとうございました