Russia. Shoes in the house.

I remember how I was surprised when I was watching American movies and saw people walking inside a house, laying on a sofa, or sleeping in a bed in shoes*. We don't wear shoes indoors where we live living in. Usually we have slippers for everyone of in the family and slippers for guests. If you don't like slippers you normally can walk in the house in socks or barefoot but no one can walk in shoes in the house.

*For the record, I'm pretty sure most Americans don't wear shoes to bed. :) I think it's just lazy TV production.

3 months in Australia

Hello!!! Long time no see Italki. I am now at the airport in Darwin up in Northern Territory of Australia waiting for my flight heading out to Bali. I have been inactive on Italki for a couple of months as I was trapped in an isolated places and also didn't study that much. However, I have been hanging out with loads of people from all over the world which has improved makes my English got really better than before. Staying in Australia has been amazing, to me watching not only the sunsets but also moon stairs (???). Back when I was in South Korea I felt really miserable. on myself Every time I looked at the mirror I was like " why am I so mean? why is my life so hard?" I do never throw not ask those kind of questions anymore as I've come to realize I am the one who can change the world by changing my attitude towards the world and also myself. When I failed to get the visa to NZ, something was telling me you gotta go to OZ.. wanted to come back so straight away I booked the flight to go hurrily quickly. Now I got to know the reason why I had to. I am glad that I have travelled to Oz with just ONE accident which will be ever going to be in my memory with a scar but truly happy that everything went really well.  and All the memories will be never be forgotten gone forever...

16/09/2017 I start from my B1 level of English

From Starting today I want improve my English pronunciation, speaking, reading and grammar English skills. I'd also like to improve and grow up my comprehension .
I want increase my vocabulary and be fluent because I'd like take a FCE First Certificate in English.
Next Monday I'll start my career at university. First we have to do an Italian grammar exam and then I think we will start from October the lessons in October.
I'm a bit anxious but I'm ready to start!!!

09.13.2017

I've watched a movie recently. At the end it became obvious there is going to be a sequel. The movie is about Russian writer Nikolai Gogol who goes for on a journey to investigate mysterious crimes. It starts by depicting two mans men having kidnapped a young girl and brought her to a forest in somewhere in Ukraine. The girl wants to escape from the kidnappers, but can't do that because they have put a bag over her head so she can't see anything around her. She has runs a few meters and suddenly hits a tree. Then a horse rider comes up from darkness. I thought the girl was going to be rescued by him. However, this is scary guy without a face and with horns growing from the his shoulders. He kills the two men and then the girl. OK, that's enough for today.

Сorrida: mortal performance

Recently I had the best and, at the same time, the worst experience of my life: I visited Corrida. We were in Spain, my friend and I and accidentally we stumbled upon the advertisement of Corrida. And we thought that we must not miss the chance to attend a real bullfight with these bulls and bullfighters. Аnd the cheapest price seemed pretty good, that was at only 8 euros. But soon we understood why it was so. The fact is that in the arena there are places of shadow and sun. Since it was long before sunset, sitting in the sun was impossible so we had to pay 2 times more expensive twice as much just not to burn.
So here we are, watching the opening ceremony, sitting in the shadow and being content with ourselves. 3 main characters appear. They are called bullfighters and they all look noble and handsome. And in some moments, at last they let the bull into the arena and the play begins.
I was simply fascinated by the dance of these two - bull and bullfighter. 3 bullfighters were charging and the bull was more and more tired. But then appeared a man on a horse to pierce the bull with a lance to weaken it.
From this moment my mood changed. It wasn't  a play anymore. We were sitting very close to the arena and i saw suffering of the animal. They pierced him more and more and when he wasn't able to move anymore, they pierced him through with a sword and he fell dead.
For myself, I decided that this action is absolutelly not for me. I felt pity to for the animal and I was scared for the bullfighters. For me It's more like a slaughter where only one can survive and in most cases it won't be the bull.
In any case that was an experience for me. I can't say I liked it, but I learned something new about another culture even if it's something so cruel.

Overall, this was VERY GOOD. I would give you advice in three general areas:

1) When using numbers (example: 3 bullfighters), it's normal to spell out the word for anything less than 10. Example: Three bullfighters, Five people (etc). Beyond 10, it's typical to use the numerical symbols. The exception would be with decimals. Example: 1.5, not "one point five" :)

2) It seems you moved back and forth between tenses (present vs past), sometimes in the same idea. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I've changed most of it to be reflected in the past, as I THINK that's what you were trying to express.

3) Finally, because this is a personal story, you don't need to use "for myself" or "for me". In English when telling a story in the first person, it's already implied that this is your opinion.

Great work! I hope my feedback helps you!

John. 

A letter to the local town council

There is a problem on your street. Write a letter to the local town council explaining who you are, what the problem is and what you hope will be done about it.'

Dear Sir
I am writing to draw your attention to the problem of the crowded street near our settlement*. I am inhabitant** who each day drives by car to work and back home along the same route but after the development of new office buildings in our neighborhood, there are a lot of cars near the street. People who work in those offices commute each day by cars, which require parking near the street. For this reason, other drivers have difficulties to driving safely along this street.
All cars which that drive this route have problems with communication. This is visible especially during coming the drive home from work. Very often drivers are rude and offensive. They argue with other users of the road. It is a very annoying aspect of our life.
I would like to ask that you to tackle this problem as soon as possible because we need to communicate safely without any nervous situations on the road.
I look forward to your decision related to the establishing of a no parking zone or the rebuilding of the road.
Yours faithfully
XYZ

*"settlement" is a bit out of place here. Would be better "residence".

** "resident" would be more commonly used.