There is nothing wrong with thinking thigns trhough before they actually happen. Good idea I think!

It may be easier for you and other people to communicate on the site, for example, my mailbox already cracking under the weight of all the emails it has to absorb every day.

Hey, pretty good but there is room to improve :)

Conferences...

This morning has been quite interesting. Here, in the Facultad de Idiomas, in the university <em><as these all refer essentially to the same place, you need to separate them with commas> </em>there will be conferences about bilingualism in Latin America. These conferences started today and I attended a workshop about multiculturalism in the classroom. It was awesome because I was discussing <discussed is better here> with people from USA and Brazil about code switching <not sure, probably you mean 'word swapping'> between English and Spanish. It was pretty interesting because we analyzed a conversation where students were talking about a comal and tortillas. As part of the discussion, these words can't be translated into another language.
I think these conferences will be very good!!!
Tomorrow I'll attend some other conferences and I hope to learn a lot from them 'there' is better here....

Very interesting story :) and quite advanced language. If you like, though, there are still some things you can improve in the way of writing it. I hope below will be helpful.

I'm going to Slovakia!

When I open this page I usually see self-introducing stories. So I decided to write a story of about <em>-with stories it is usually 'a story about', 'a story of' is more like 'history of' something-  </em>visa receiving process, first in my life.

I was abroad many times. If my mind memory serves me right, it there <em>-with posessives you always use 'there' - </em>was about 15 visas in my old foreign passport. As you may know, Russians have 2 passports, not ID carts. One of them is internal, only for movements -<em>it is better to say 'for moves' or 'travels'- </em>within the country. And the other one <em>-if you use 'other' to refer to the rest of options you should use 'the other', like one passport is for this, the other is for that- </em>is for trips abroad. So, if you want to go abroad, you need to get a foreign passport first and after that you may apply to an embassy for a visa.

I worked as an engineer and trips to different countries were the a part of my work. When I had come to Russia for vacations, I didn't want to go anywhere else <em>-in this sentence it is not clear what you mean: when you went on vacation in Russia you didn't want to go anywhere else? After you had come to Russia for a vacation, you didn't want to go anywhere else- </em>So I spent my time at home.

Not long time ago I retired <em>-retired normally would mean 'permanently leaving any sort of work</em><em>' eg such as what old people do, you mean 'quit you job'-</em>. I began to miss my trips and spending time in another country <em>-another country or other countries- </em>didn't seems to me as such a bad idea. But I didn't had never applied apply to an embassy for a visa by myself earlier. All I did is was getting ticket and passport from the trips organizing department and go going to the airport <em>-you should use the same tense-</em>.

So. I decided to go to Slovakia this summer by car. But in at Slovakian embassy there <em>(remember - 'there are') </em>are strong rules for tourists. I needed to ask a hotel to send to me the original invitation by via <em>is better here </em>DHL, to take a document about my work and salary, a statement of <em>either </em>about <em>or </em>from bank account. But it is not as difficult to collect all of these documents as it is to make myself to get up at 5 am and go get to the embassy by 7 o'clock, to be the first in front of the door. By the way, embassy is opened opens at 9 am.

I was first. When embassy was opened there were about 50 people after me. And about 10-15 of them were out of turn and come came to me to say that I must to skip them forward let them before me because they were here the day before. It was terrible for me to understand realize <em>-is better here- </em>that you may get up at 5am and be the last in the line. I began to think to not to go abroad. But from  on the other hand<em> (remember - other, the other) </em><em></em>I'm tired of working and I needed to go somewhere for a vacations. So, I skiped let 10 people in front of me because there was a list which the security guy composed the day before and they were in this that list. But other 5 people prefered not to go and wait for their turn a queue. I handed over the documents to the embassy and now I'm waiting for a visa. Yahoo!

By the way! Where to go in Slovakia? Which beer you advice advise to taste?