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Hi, my name is Peter. I live in Moscow. I have been studying English for more than 5 years. Unfortunately I do it not systematically so my level is not so high as I want it should be. If you need some help with Russian, or you just want to talk about something, just write to me, I will be glad to chat with you!
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Nov 15, 2017
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    Day #4 Sometimes I try to think about people who study patiently in university and try to imagine is it really worth it? I knew many people from top universities and from the low range university, and if I do not know who is from which one, I would never determine it. Of course, there is some university where really intelligent people are studying, but in common life, they do nearly the same job as do people who were graduated in my university which are not very high class. This difference is even more significant if we compare university from different countries. I know a couple of people who have finished graduate programs in middle-class European universities, I also read some master thesis from top universities, and I’m not sure that my graduate thesis was weaker. There are some flaws in it, as I knew now, but generally, it was not bad. The problem, which I think is most important is that the thesis is not a marker of the education program, and it does not show anything about what a person has been studying for 3, 4 or even 5 years. More important is that success in the study is not correlated with success in life. Perhaps, it is right for middle-level universities, or only for my country. I remember one scene; it was in Germany a few years ago. I have a short-term internship in one university during my PhD program. There was an English teacher, who was an English man who married German women and come with her in her country. He knew that I’m a PhD candidate, and in one dialog he tried to convinced me that I’m intelligent because I’m a PhD candidate. He asked me “Do you more intelligent than a cashier in a supermarket?”, I answered “No”. I felt that I want to add something, but he looked at me like I’m an idiot, and changed a topic. The reason for his look is that he was really proud that he has a master’s degree from a middle range German university, and he felt that it is a great achievement. I think it is not an achievement, it is rubbish. But, do you know why I answered “no” at his question? I did not know it then, but I understood it a little bit later. I remember my first boss. He was a director of a small company, in which only 5 people had been working. This man was the father of my good friend. He was an engineer for the whole of his life. The Engineer. One time this word means a lot. Maybe many have certificates, but only a few can really be one of them. He also was a PhD. He had developed a design method fo
    August 27, 2019
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    Day #3 Since the last Sunday, the part of the subway line that is closed to my home is closed, because the new line is constructed under the operated tunnels. According to local construction laws, the tunnels must not be used, when there are any construction works that may affect them. People who usually use this metro line can use free buses that were organized. Long blue busses are circulated every a couple of minutes along the street near my home. The buses are usually grouped in four. I think if every of them can contain one and a half hundreds of passenger, for of them give nearly six hundreds passengers! That is close to the capacity of one train. To minimize the influence of car traffic, the special road lines were separated by white and red road plastic wall blocks from the main part of road. By that, the 8 lines roads were shortening to 6 lines. This replacement system works quite well. As a result, I wonder why do we need a subway? The busses and proper organization can easily replace it. The only one who will feel some discomfort are cars. Small group of people who do not want to use public transport. So, I think that the world without cars can not be less comfortable for most of the people than normal one.
    August 21, 2019
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    Day #2 Why many people think that they are better than others? Why people think that they are worse than others? The psychology of a person is mysterious thing which, I’m sure, will be covered in darkness for the next many years. I asked these questions because in a couple of weeks, the new study year is going to start. It will be my third year in a college where I study computer science. As my college is not bad, the process of education is quite difficult. But is there really some relationship between the level of a university and the difficulties of study? I’m not sure. I think it depends on a student and their abilities and desires to study. For example, I met one girl that a couple of years ago was graduated by one province forest college (a college where students are taught how to explotate forests), but now she works as a construction engineer. And she is really good in it. She knew that she has some gaps in her education, but she constantly try to study something new, if she do not know something, she always ask about it. Once we spent a whole night together, during which I explained her how to use one specific program that allows to control construction processes on the site, where I had a practice. That night I will never forget, honestly… At the same time, when I do not know something, I’m too shy for asking for help. As a result, even some easy tasks require a lot of time for me, if they are new. First, I try to solve them by reading some books, then by reading internet and watching videos on youtube, and only when anything done, I ask. Why do I do this way? I do not know.
    August 18, 2019
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    Day #1 Today I’ve decided to start everyday writing again. The last time I did it was when I prepared to the TOEFL exam that I pass the last year. AS I was really pleased with my results, I stopped study English at all, because I thought that I knew it already… (What a foolish thing to do, as I understood now. As a result, since that time my level has been constantly decreasing. A couple of day ago, I realized that that cannot be going this way, and I must to do something with it. As I do not need to prepare for an exam again, I’m going to write here some information about my everyday life. This small 20 minutes practice let me hold my language level. You know that one of the best resources for being read and corrected is Lang-8. But due to the cessation of new user registration, that web site is dying. So, without any equivalent alternative, I can use only italki. Perhaps you know another web portal, do you? A couple of days ago. I realized that my summer close to its end, and I’ve not done even 10% of what I wanted to do. Most of the days I just dreaming about bright and successful future but did nothing to reach it. For example, today the most significant thing that I did was that I went for a walk as I did nearly every day during the last 2 months. My routing looks as follow: I go out to the nearest bus stop and get into a bus. Then it drives me to the stop which called “the academy of international trading”. This stop is located close to one of the biggest park of the city that lays along the river. So, I go along the riverbank, sit on one particular bench, and then go across the river by a bridge and get another bus that drives me home. I think that it is a good text for the first time. I hope I can do it every day. Only this regime lets reach significant results.
    August 17, 2019
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    Autumn Autumn nearly ends up in Moscow. All trees are standing bare under the bleached sky. A dingy brownish carpet of leafs covers the ground along a wet black nothingness of roads and sidewalks. The snow felt several times during the last week, but every times it melted after hours. Sorrow calmness there is. Grey mass of people stands at the buss stop, poured by cold drizzle. When a bus come, they slowly plod to the front door and try to climb inside. Albeit there is not better. Warm, but stuffy. Moist windows do not allow the light get inside, only yellowish light of celling lamps haze all spaces above the crowded mass. Every unsmiling face look at you with indifferences
    October 29, 2017
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    The life Sometimes I look videos on YouTube in English. If for an English speaker it is a time killer activity, for me, it helps to improve English and to know American and England cultures better. Yesterday I saw a video, in which seventy people from 5 to 75 years old say what are their main life goals. So many people, so many words, but there is not answer – what is the right goal. Even during the life, (I do not consider the answers of who are less than 21, because they are childish), the answers do not change! We see a 25 years old men who says “I want to be happy”, a 45 years old with the same answer and one who are more than sixty! But the saddest part of it is, that this old man say it like he hasn’t reach this aim yet! His hairs are grey, but he’s still looking for something. This video substantiate an idea that the life is aimless! But I baulk at this idea! Something that aggravates an effect of the video is that it shows when people became adult. Before 30, people are young and healthy, but after this number, their ideals change, their faces change, their eyes are changes. I have not reached this years yet. What if when I have, I wouldn’t get an insight of this question? What if even became sixty years old man I still would wait a moment when I became happy, but hasn’t been happy before that time?
    October 23, 2017
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    Languages and happiness Only happy people study languages, isn’t it? This idea came to me a couple of days ago, and still with me. If one is not happy, he/she has problems and worries, but languages need calm environments. Especially if you are not in the country of the language, and your level is hight. You should sedate all annoyances around you, and avert possible disturbances, to concentrate on studying. You surely know, how this stillness may be snapped by any noise (even by a gulp of tea produced by your office college). Only in this environment, you will roll with the punches of studying, and do not fetter within your present level. But here, I talk more about people who study for fun, but as we know, a lot of people study for improving their life. In this case, one heralds a language as a main trigger for achieving a better being; and nobody can divert you from this way, everything goes slickly. But at this way is one danger. If you do not reach your aim quite fast, you may became disappointed of yourself, it may case that you even despise yourself. To regard studying languages as a paramount part of the life may case a depression. So, if you feel that something goes wrong, that the studying became detract, or you are sluggish, you should devise a plan how avoid a possible disillusioness.
    October 22, 2017
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    A sport. When I was a teenager I dabbled doing a sport – a shooting sport. To dabble is not a right word. I did it professionally – 3 or 4 time per week by several hours. But even that wasn’t enough, you should always accrue the time that you spend in a shooting center. Usually nearly all shooting centers are quite and dingy. And they sparse across the city, so I was lucky that one of them was near my home. Shooting... you are standing with a pistol or a rifle, aline the sights of it and the mark and then, at one moment all world around you freezes, your body became solid, at this moment you shouldn’t spur to make a shot, you wait, and then - push the trigger. This place is marooned. I did it for six year, but all that time I was daunting about my skills. I wasn’t good. My best result was 23 place in a country youth championship (10 m, air pistol), and even this place was excess. I remember that day, even my score 543/600. Olympic record is about 593. For somebody, it is just a number. But this number means that a men shot into the ten at least 53 times, and only 7 times shot into the nine. But how many others days that I spend for it I draw a blank. Sometimes I feel some compunctions and the time that I wasted, and didn’t use for something useful. But it is most because of the fact that the way, which the shooting influences me by, isn’t obvious, it is subliminal. It teach me do not be vexation, because if you is, you would never shot into the ten. Do not be mutinous, because even the best ones can shot the six, and lost the competition. Sometimes I think that I should go on.
    October 21, 2017
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    The memory I forgot the name of one my university friend. We weren’t too close friends, but the time, which has passed since the our last meeting, isn’t too long either! It is just two years. I have been sitting for a long five minutes trying to remember how it is sound, then without reaching the answer; I looked at the Facebook and found the name. When I was a child, once I sat with my grandma and we were watching the old photobook. It was (and is) full of black and white photos of people in old style clothes from the 1910-1920, sitting or standing in some typical poses. You have probable seen this kind of studio photos from the 1920 - for example, a man stands for a sitting woman, and his hand places on the women shoulder, or a woman in a long drees stands beyond the table and places the hand on the top of it. When I saw unknown faces, I was asking my grandma – who he is, or what her name is. And nearly always she answered me– I don’t remember. This photobook, full of photos of unknown black and white people, is still lying in a case in my flat. The memory is tricky.
    August 13, 2017
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    The lord of the rings After the finish of reading the Garry Potter books, I started The Lord of the Ring, and by now, I reached one-third of it. It is not as easy as Garry Potter, especially with a lot of unknown vocabulary, but grammatically it is perfect. I do not want to discuss the prons and cons of it. I want ask more interesting question: Why is there no technical progress in this universe? (When I ask this question, I should mention another very famous series of book with the same problem – The song of ice and fire) The author try to convince us that after several thousand years of evolutions, not men, not dwarfs, not orc invent steam engine, fire arm or electricity? There is not mention about any optical facilities (e.g. telescops), they haven’t developed book printing, as a result there is not newspapers and post service. I do not understand how the Middle-earth economic works. How hobbits can produce enough food for so fast grooving population (their life is long and easy, so it is obvious, that they must suffer by the overpopulation), especialy without machines and fertilization (because, as we know, there is, of course, no chemical industry). So, I’m puzzled. You can oppose me, and say – if the author haven’t mention it, it doesn’t mean that there is not it. Perhaps you are right. The simplest answer is - there is magic)
    August 7, 2017
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