Diary in English ♡ On the 4th of Nov.

I woke up at around 10 am this morning. Then I took a shower, got changed clotheschanged (my) clothes, put on make up and did the laundry. I was relaxing at home until evening and went out to see fireworks of Guy Fawkes. My friends and I took a coach to the venue and arrived there an hour and a half before the fireworks started. We bought hot dogs and entered the venue. It was freezing but we had to wait for an hour and a half. I wore a winter coat, but I can't stand the cold air! An hour and a half later, finally the fireworks began[a little more natural: "the fireworks finally began"]. It was amazing and better than I expected. There were some kinds of fireworks that I've never seen before. I had thought that the Japanese fireworks is were the best all over the world(the best in the world), but I was moved by the English fireworks and it could be better than Japanese one(might have even been better than Japanese ones [ones = fireworks, so it is the plural. In order to use "one" you would have to say something like, "The English fireworks show might have been better than a Japanese one" ; one = the show).

After that we moved to the harbor side and visited a cocktail bar. We enjoyed some cocktails and I loved the performance to make cocktail(cocktail making performance). Then we moved to another pub and enjoyed chatting until 2 am! I felt(was) tired but it was a good Saturday night.

The paradox of choice (my writing challenge - day 11)

Hello! You are(are you) satisfied and happy with your choice(general case: "choices")? Today I want to write about a TED talk "The paradox of choice!" by Barry Schwartz

Barry started with a dogma of Western countries. If we want to maximize the welfare of our citizens, then we have to maximize individual freedom. If we have freedom, then we can do our own things or can decide about these and that(simply: "what";  the phrase "this and that" doesn't seem to fit here) will maximize our welfare.
More choice means more freedom, more freedom means more welfare, so this is the dogma.
He showed a picture of his supermarket. Over 175 salad dressings – that is an offer for only one thing. The store is full of other products. That means it(there) is a lot of choice.
He gave another example. When we go to a doctor, then he can't to tell us what to do. The doctor will give us a choice about possible medicine or therapies.
Later he talked about what is bad about the uncountable(sounds uncommon to my American ear -  the word"innumerable" might be more natural) choices. There are two negative effects. The first effect is, that the choice produces paralysis. People have problems to find (have trouble finding) the best choice. He showed an interesting real example in a company. Employees could choose in(a) variety of funds of investment in retirement plans. But the more funds that there were the more employees could not decide about it(grammatically correct but much more natural to leave this out). The decision was too hard.
The second effect is that when we make a choice, we are less satisfied with the result of the(that) choice. When you have to decide to buy one of 175 salad dressings, and one of these(none of them) are not perfect, which (one) - [not necessary but it demonstrates why the conjugation is "is", not "are"] of them are(is) better? The more options there are, the easier is it to regret the other options.
When we have a lot of options, then we imagine a perfect thing. Our expectations increase and our satisfaction decline(declines).
His suggestion is an income redistribution. Economists call it “Pareto-improving move”.
it means, when we can (missing a verb here) some of the products, our choices to give to people, who have only few options, then it would be make better the world(make the world better) not only of (for)the poor people, but also our world.

Thanks for reading. It would be great, if you could correct it. Thanks!

Toothless smile

Writing my master's thesis is like discovering new abilities and possibilities - especially if(when) it comes to cooking. When I feel too stressed with the deadlines or too tired to sit in front of the computer any longer, I try to find an alternative activity (and I think it`s not an isolated case in student`s cluster(?? - perhaps "in a student's case"?)), no matter what it is - cleaning, taking a walk, making some art or just cooking.

When I go to the kitchen, sometimes I feel like preparing something qick and easy but unconventional. One time it is an experimental salad, another time something different, like this Szczerbolek what(which) in Polish means, more or less, 'a little being with a toothless smile'.

How to make your own one (more natural: "How can you make your own?")? It is very easy. At first, prepare a chocolate pudding. Grapes can be the eyes and watermelon - the nose and the mouth. The Theeth(teeth) are made of coconut. To add a charming toothless smile forget about a tooth or two and use the natural pips holes in the watermelon.

Voilà! :-)

The best place I have ever visited

Have you ever visited Paris? It’s one of the most famous city of the world(cities in the world) and it’s know with the nickname of “city of light”. (known by the nickname City of Light. [ or, more naturally, "it is nicknamed City of Light" ])
The First time that I visited it, I hoped to see many light for all side(many lights from all sides). But no, Paris sleepsleeps at night. The nickname is because it had a good university where fabulous ideas emerged.
There are many place to visit and my favourite place is the Eiffel Tower, which, nowadays, is illuminated.
The best part of the trip was to see “Mona Lisa” paint(painting). It is inside the Louvre museum.
There’s so much to do and to see in Paris. If you ever get a change to go there, don’t miss it.

Thank you World

As I am writing this article, I would like to thank all of the people in the world who are reading this right now and correcting me.I would also like anyone who reads this and my future articles/notebook pages to not only correct my grammar mistakes or point out how absurd or meaningless they may sound but also give adequate synonyms or maybe even other phrases that would sound more "English" than the words or phrases that I have used. I am really interested in perfecting my English as well as my German. Thank you all in advance !