First notebook entry: Introducing myself

Hi.
I'm Nana.
I am learning English because when I <strike>go to foreign country</strike>, I want to speak English with a lot of people.
When I went to Araska, I felt that everyone were friendly and cheerful.
So I want to make friends.

First letter of names is always upper case.
Usually you'd either say "go to foreign countries" or just "go abroad".
Also, if by Araska you mean the northern-most state of USA, it's spelled Alaska - though for all I know, Araska could also be a place (in which case I imagine telling the 2 apart would be difficult using only Katakana).

Other than that, I don't think you made any mistakes. A few things that could make it seem more natural, but that's something you pick up only through years of experience.

In the upper left corner of your screen - below the italki banner, next to the Home-button - should be a "Language Partners" button. Click it, and you'll get the search page. If you search for people able to speak Japanese and interested in learning Russian, you should get about 200 hits. While many of these may in fact be learning both Japanese and Russian, having added Japanese to their 'speaking-list' to show that they do know some of it, there should be plenty there for you to send friend requests to. Alternatively, search for and add other people who're trying to learn Japanese. This isn't ideal, really, but for the very basics it might actually be helpful - at the very least, they'll be able to tell you how they learned Kanji (if they have learned them). Then there's the option to use the Marketplace option to hire a teacher, though as the name suggest this will cost money. Looking at the bright side, the first 30 minutes are often quite cheap, and while I haven't tried it I imagine you'll be able to learn much during that time. Oh, or you could do like me: Start by taking Japanese classes in the real world, just to get you started, then look up every new Kanji you come across. This is probably the slowest method available (I'm at 1 year and counting, having learned Hiragana, forgotten Katakana, and knowing maybe 10-20 Kanji at sight), but having used much the same method to learn English I can still recommend it - after all, that is how children learn their native language. Of course, in order to come across any significant amount of Japanese, you'll probably have to return to method #1 and add a bunch of Japanese-speakers to your friendlist.

They are identical, "In your stead" is simply an older version of "Instead of you", often used to sound more.. noble. As such, I might answer this question instead of leaving it to someone else, but if I were to go towards certain death it'd be in your stead.

Egg. The watertight egg was "invented" millions of years before the feather, and long before that the fish were using eggs of their own. Of course, if you're specifically referring to a chicken's egg, I may have to make several negative comments about your creativity.

This is the internet. Do I really need to explain further?

I don't believe there's any way to make learning a language easy.

I do, however, know from my own experience that learning from something you'd do anyway makes it seem a lot easier. In other words, find something you like to do on the internet, and if there's a chat there'll probably be people speaking English in it - personally I prefer online games.

Alternatively, move to an English-speaking country. I wouldn't recommend this until you reach a certain level, though.

MSN is originally designed for instant text messages, only adding the voice and video later and not terribly well. Skype, on the other hand, was originally made for voice chat, with the text messages mostly meant for telling whoever you were talking to to turn on his speakers/plug in his microphone. Apparently, some part of the base design has made them ideal for video, as their quality on both this and voice is far beyond anything I've seen over MSN.

Depends on how much English they know. Assuming they got a good grasp of idioms, "break a leg" might go down better. A sort of reverse jinx, you might say.