The English Speaking Club I attend in one of our local libraries has been having difficult times. I used to go there every Saturday until the meetings abruptly stopped a month and a half ago, when our guests of honour – young American Mormon missionaries – said they were no longer allowed to attend just so they could pay more attention to their mission.
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Everyone expected a rainy GP. All cars started wearing tyres for rain, expecting to change to heavy rain ones soon, and the clouds in the sky promised the usual unpredictable rainy race – one of those in which the one qualified the last can sometimes finish the first and vice versa. The first few laps went more or less according to this pattern, but then the track got dry, and despite all the forecasts of more rain, actively discussed by all drivers on the radio with their teams, nothing like that happened.
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Our family visits to the cinema are becoming a new tradition, or so it looks. Yesterday, when Janna insisted that she and Dad would go watch “How to Train Your Dragon”, I thought I’d send the two of them and stay alone at home blogging or reading. But Alex said no. He wanted it to be a family night, and so I went.
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Sometimes I write poetry.When I was younger, I wrote it quite often, but only in Russian. Later I translated some of my verses into English and then wrote a few more, which were in English from the start. I’m going to post my poems here from time to time. Here’s one of them.
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I’ve had many jobs, but again and again I had to hand my bosses my letters of resignation and quit. For different reasons: some jobs didn’t give me satisfation, either because I was forced to do things I didn’t like to do, or because I had to do them the wrong way. Other jobs were quite satisfactory morally, but didn’t pay well, since there was too little work to do; after waiting for a while I’d give up. Sometimes there were too little co-operation from the boss – or too little trust, respect, understanding. All the time I was dreaming of a perfect job, where I would be asked to do things I’m best at, respected for what I do and paid decently for my work.
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About a week ago, we decided to go to cinema – all three of us, my husband Alex, our daughter Janna and I. The film of our choice was Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton. Fiercely marketed, its characters looking at us from all billboards, the film intrigued us. Janna was much looking forward to it; my curiosity grew day after day when my colleagues discussed at work how they’d go and see it during the weekend and my hubby read feedback from the Internet to me. Feedback varied, but I had to form my own opinion.
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It’s been four months since I launched my first blog, Foreign Reader Says, and the more I blogged about books, the more I felt that I wanted to blog about many other things too – in other words that I needed a general blog. So I was sketching designs, thinking about topics for my future blogging and waiting. Saitiria.com was registered at the same time with the two other domains, but I kept it for a business website – it seemed to be a good brand name. Once I even started building a website with this name, just as becoming officially an enterpreneur seemed a matter of days. But there was always a Plan B.
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It happened five days ago, on Sunday, 14 March. The season has officially started: the first season since 1993 without refuelling. So the cars are very heavy, and the drivers have to get used to the new conditions; but they are the best of the best, and can face this challenge like they have already faced many others – and emerged triumphantly.
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