Interesting question! Personally, I find it a pretty silly phrase and never use it (it just sounds stupid when I say it!), though there is value in teaching it if it comes up in a lesson on modern slang, as I suppose language learners need to know what it means.

Singing

The song from LaLaLand, "Someone in the Crowd," was playing in my head over and over today. Probably because I practised singing it yesterday. The song is catchy, so it keeps playing in my head. I'd like to sing two more songs from the movie. One is also a catchy song, and the other is a ballad. In order to sing these songs perfecty, I need to practise. I can't wait to go to Karaoke!

Or you could write 'The stone weighs 360kg.

Hope to Have a Long Distance Journey One Day

My friend gave me a book as a birthday present last year which is my favorite. It shows some wonderful and soul-touched landscapes and different areas the author had visited. The author emotionally wrote down the feelings, inspiration, insight and experiences of all her travelling mentioned on the book.

I love travelling, but I have got no experience of any long distance journeys. As the saying goes, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. ” It seems to me that the words with emotional honesty in the books can touch my heart more than the colorful pictures posted on pages.

I hope I can share my travelling experiences with others one day, but obviously I should get the tourism expenses first.

Title of the book in Chinese:《人生终要有一场触及灵魂的旅行》

My Diary Day 1

I've decided to write some short pieces of information about my daily events. I've just returned from school. I had an English class tonight (this is ESL program which means 'English as a Second Language'). I study in a big class, and there are many students from different countries around the world. Sometimes it's so hard to understand their accents!

I've studied English for two months since I arrived in the US to visit my sister. It's a great opportunity to learn English here, it's obviously much more effective to learn English here than in Russia. Frankly speaking, I thought it was absolutely impossible to know English, but now I don't think so. In other words, I used to think about English as something unreachable for me. It is still hard to understand speech, and to write, but the hardest thing for me is speaking, of course. Trying to explain my thoughts as natural as possible. That's why I've decided to write my diary notes here. I will appreciate any help from English speaking people! Thank you, and we'll see you tomorrow!