Everybody writes in their notebook. Should I?

I saw other people's notebooks and it looks like a very popular thing. Users post comments and corrections in a day, or even less. While I'm writing it, I'm starting to understand (we don't really say "getting an understanding", but use "starting to understand" or "beginning to understand) what a great idea it is. I think that if I'll post at least two or three records that contains my thoughts per day,  then I will get the ability to think in English (it's very hard to me for now). Hah, I remembered the story about one guy I know (he's Irish with a British citizenship). He's about fifty or sixty years old, and sometimes he goes to Russia because of his job (who's job? his job). We were talking about Russian politics and people. We agreed ("got together" is only used in a physical sense, as in people meeting up) that many Russians have very strange qualities. For example, (always put a comma-space after "for example") blind love for Putin, combined with apolitical nature. After all, when we were saying goodbye in the evening he said that thinking in another language is very valuable skill, and sometimes he actually finds himself thinking in Russian. I said that he has to be more careful, because he can turn into a Russian quickly, ("shortly" is okay, but sounds a bit strange. Use "quickly" instead) and then he'll vote for Putin, and so on. Then we laughed about it.

Overall, well done.