3. Homes, places we've grown

There is a place that I love with all my heart, where I feel special, cosy and secure. This place is my school where I spent 10 wonderful years...

Yesterday I came to visit my teachers with two former classmates who joined me later. We arranged to come by the time when all classes were dismissed, so that we didn't distract our teachers from their new students. As usual I passed through the school gate and met chains of students who came out of school laughing and feeling a great relief that this goddamn school is over for this day... If they could imagine what I feel now.

I entered into the square yard of the school, where once beautiful flowers and bushes were fading. Then, I went by the statue of "mal'chish-kibal'chish" (a hero of the civil war, the heritage of the soviet past, and though the historical context is quite disguisting, this story and this boy is an example of brave heart and true devotion - that's why we admire him) remembering that my classmate promised to hang herself on it if our Physics teacher would give her B for the final exam. I smiled to the school guard but it seemed to me that he didn't pay me much attention (maybe because I still look like a schoolboy). I went trough the hall to the stairs looking around to catch the changes that occured in school since the time I'd been studying there. But nothing  changed except for the one: a large sheet of paper, where the photos with the graduates of the previous year were, was replaced with the new where our photos are. All other things were the same as usual. It soothed me, made me sure that whenever I would come this place all things would be as they used to be when I graduated....

The snow-covered schoolyard in early december

Now, back to my school. It has 3 passages on each floor (the whole building has a square shape with a yard inside) and with a great delight I paced all of them inhaling the school air and peeping in opened classrooms. My destination was on the 2d floor where our classroom used to be. Fortunately my class teacher was there and we could have a nice talk with a cup of tea and some bisquits. That day I met a lot of my classmates too. 

My school is definitely my second home.

Oh, all that I know,

There's nothing here to run from,

'cause everybody here's got

Somebody to lean on... (c)

Thank you for reading.

2. The second post or what happened past week

{What's happening, guys?! So today we're gonna start with something really simple: (1+x)^n >= 1+n*x. Try to prove it using the method of mathematical induction :D }

Hello, people! :)

Now I'm hesitating over the choice which topic I'd like to discuss here this time. Since the free choice is the hardest choice for me as inexperienced blogger the best I can do is to describe some events that happened some days ago.

Try to find me in this crowd)

Last Saturday night (for some unknown reason I've remembered Katy Perry's song Last Friday night :) I was in Gorky park (and here I recalled Scorpion's Wind of change) enjoying German street festival where everybody could help themselves with Bavarian sausages (Bayerisch Würstel) and famous german beer with pasties (с пирожками :) - this only for adults, of course, children could delight in communicating with a big yellow Haribo (registrated trademark) teddy-bear who gave them packings of fruit-jellies (that actually had the same bear-ed form) for good behaviour. The highlight of the whole evening was the show performed by german singer Jan Delay and the orchester (with an eccentric name Disco Nr. 1) which plays with him over the last few years. It was absolutely fantastic! A singing (and jumping :) with the perfect backup accompanied by trombones, piano and guitars and plenty of kinds of drums! Form time to time Jan tried to interact with us with the help of a presenter but soon we all understood that no assistance is needed, language barrier was successfully surpassed) And at the end my friend managed to catch the thrown drumstick)

The Theater, Arbat street, 26

The Building of Foreign Department,
Smolenskaya ploschchad (square)

Next day I visited The State Theater named after E. Vakhtangov (famous russian and soviet actor and director who championed Stanyslavsky's ideas) to watch the renewed version of Shakespear's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. And though it's a comedy (the comic effect was even heightened because all female roles were performed by men - it was absolutely hilarious when Viola (played by Andrey Kuzichev) in the disguise of a male was reasoning about how cruel the love may be, and how flighty women in love may be) there are some significant and serious points to be discussed. We laugh but at the same time we start thinking about the complicasy of love (what is love? baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more :), about how our identity can dissolve in it, about the love which can bring to madness, fear and spiritual insight. In a word, I loved it. After the play I could catch glimpses of night Moscow while I was bussing to the metro station.

Farewell, guys ladies and gentlemen ;) Thank you for reading.

1. my first post

Hello, World! (Special greetings to English-201 :)

I've never had any experience of writing blogs, so I decided to call this blog, as you can see, "My first blog". And this is going to be my first post in my first public blog :) Well, actually it is not public yet because of my privacy settings, but...

I was born here, in Moscow, went, as practically all children did, in a kindergarten (I like this word because it is so german :))) and had the time of my life untill I went to school. And though I enjoyed the eductional process I found it quite hard. My most favourite subjects at school were Physics and Geography. I love Physics because I've always wanted to understand how it all works, how our world is ordered. And Geography was my favourite just because I like visiting different places. It's very interesting to explore the world (again, it's just another side of  the huge word "world'') especially when you don't leave your home! You know, I'm not a big fan of trekking or things like that. And though the pure nature fascinates me I find exploring the narrow streets of some European town more interesting and pleasant.

Berlin Hauptbahnhof is something supernatural!

The most amazing experience of my life...

Actually, cities are my biggest love :) I've already been to such metropolises as Berlin and Rome and I was totally bewildered (in the meaning "amazed", if it certainly exists at all) by their history, culture and just by their structure or order, I mean, it's very interesting to see how a city lives: how people get to the work, what places they visit to relax or to amuse themselves and what supports the existance of a city. And here I come to the idea (though it's  commonplace) that it looks like a body: public transportation is the blood vascular system of a city, power stations are its heart, parks are its lungs and so on) Well, I'd better stop this lyrical digression :)

When the time came to choose the discipline which I would (and still will) learn at college, I chose Economics because it helps to explore the world from one more side, from the side of people who inhabit it. Economics shows how people make decisions and communicate with each other in order to become wealthier, how people are organised in one big system and how their decisions affect this system.

And due to the fact that our world is multilingual, the process of exploration will be much easier when you are able to use the language that is commonly understood (more or less). That's why I'm also very interested in studying English and Deutsch or German (both of them are also languages of science). I'm fond of reading English classical literature and watching British comedy shows. One of my most favourite is *A bit of Fry and Laurie* :) though for now it's rather challenging for me because you have to concentrate all your attention to understand fluent and sophisticated language. But I hope that this course will help me to cope with these difficulties (a bit).

My interests also include listening to the music, learning playing the guitar, painting and maybe something else but I can't remember it :)

I think it should be enough for the first time, so good-bye! I hope you weren't bored while reading this. Sorry for my grammar, punctuation etc.)

P.S. Welcome to Russia, David!