Some facts about my childhood I was born in a small town in the north of Russia and lived there till I left home and went to Moscow at the age of seventeen. My parents are doctors (just as my grandparents, uncle, aunt, my cousine and now my brother). Now I understand that to grow up in the family consisting intirely from doctors means to be an independent child. My parents always were very busy. As I was five, I already went to kindergarten alone (it still was quite near to my house). I also learned cooking very early. I don`t mean, of course, that I havn`t seen my parents for days, I still have had wonderful time with my family. Especially on the weekends, when we often went skiing. There, in the north, mountain skiing is a very common kind of sport, and there are ski-mountain routes just near the town, surrounded with woods. Now I feel lucky to be born in a small town and spent childhood in a touch with nature.