A good moment in Family

A few minutes ago I arrived home, I was with family having dinner in a restaurant. When we were deciding what to eat I had a stressful moment because everybody else knew what to choose. But finally we could eat in peace and enjoy a good time with family, each one eating what they preferred and in my case I chose Chinese food. I really like it.

A horrible dream

Knock, knock, knock. Who is knocking at our back door? I was shocked! I called my mom, the same moment, I remembered, my mom is not at home. OH! Who is knocking on our door repeatedly? OH! I'm alone at home. All these things were making me fearful. What should I do now? I decided, I will behave like a brave girl, and will go to check who is there. I opened the door of my room, and started moving towards the back door. My heart started to beat fast. My hands and legs were trembling, but I didn't stop, and reached the back door. I asked " who is there", but no one replied. I asked again "Who is there", and suddenly some one broke [through]  the door [/broke the door down].  I saw a man with long hair and teeth, holding a knife in his hand,  was standing there. His clothes were covered in blood. I started to cry and run. He also started to run after me, he caught me and plugged a knife into my stomach. Aaaaaaaaaaaaa! I woke up suddenly, when I looked around, everything was okay. My mom was sleeping with me. It was just a dream. I drank water, hugged my mom and slept.

Some realities of my life

Everyone has their own likes and dislikes. Some people like to live their life busy and some like to be free. Those people who want to be busy, if suddenly they have free time on their hands it becomes difficult for them. I'm one of those people, who wants to be busy every second of their life. I think life is a very precious gift, which we should not waste. I want to learn some thing new daily. I like to dress well, go outside and meet people, but I do not go outside (leave the house)  these days. Before,  I used to some days, to go to university. I had one friend there with whom I talked a lot, but now our university courses are finished. Now I am taking a virtual university course,  so I stay at home and learn, that's why I don't leave home. This thing disturbs me a lot. I thought I would get a good job, and would enjoy life but unfortunately I did not get a job. Now don't know how to spend time at home. I love to play, but I'm the only kid in my home, so no one is at home here with whom I can play. I also like to learn English [/I also enjoy learning  English] so I have decided that I will focus on English studies. Will you help me, in this mission of learning English?

Excited

After finding this website I'm very excited. I have been searching for this type of website from a long time, and finally I found it. It's an amazing website.  I have decided that I will write some thing new everyday. I love to write in English but unfortunately I can't do it without mistakes. I am sure that after practicing here I will be able to write in English without mistakes.

Today was very difficult

There has been no electricity in our house since last night. I called the electricity department, they said, "something went wrong with our system, we hope the problem will be sovled in the next few hours". How many more hours we have to wait, we don't know!  It's very hot today. I read a book in the morning after breakfast.  Now it seems like time has stopped. This has been dragging on, and I don't know what to do now. I'm feeling bored.  My clothes are full of sweat. [or:my clothes are very sweaty].  I want to take bath but no water is available, due to the power cut.  I am feeling angry now.

Summer

Hi, I would be so excited to find a language partner on this page. I´d like to find a person (with whom)  to exchange cultural knowledge. I am a Primary school teacher,  so I´d prefer someone to be interested in school subjects. My difficulty is speaking and listening so I´d like to practise frequently. Besides,  I consider skype like a very useful way of meeting.
My hobbies are reading, swimming and traveling and I am very interested in all kinds  of music.
I like nature and the Pyrenees.

My first day on italki:)

Today I'll try one more time to start learn English. ..

-Good luck! :-) 

Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category

The table illustrates the data of consumer spending in 3 areas  (Food,  Drink & Tobacco; Clothing &   Footwear; Leisure & Education) in 2002 in 5 different countries  (Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey). 

As can be seen from the table, the majority of expenditure, in general, has been used on Food,   Drinks & Tobacco in all five countries. The largest percentage among them is 32.14% of the expenditure in Turkey. Closely followed by Ireland, which is 28.91%. However,  Italy, Spain and Sweden spent below 20% on this category. Clothing and Footwear is the second most popular category [what happened in 2002 does not predict how people will spend money!]  especially liked by Italians, as they spent 9.00% of their expenditure on buying clothes and shoes, while the other 4 countries are sharing an average proportion [do you mean 'the other 4countries share a roughly equivalent proportion'?] ,  which is around 6% of the whole. Leisure and Education got less attention. Turkey spent 4.35% of their expenditure on it, which is the highest,  while, the lowest was 1.98%, spent by Spain. 

According to the information we are given, material needs were greater than leisure and educational needs among these countries in 2002.