car problems These weeks I'm haunted by car lights issues! Last week I was driving at night and my direction indicators stopped working. Luckily there weren't many people around but I was a little worried anyway. The day after I checked the fuses but they were not broken, however I found a couple of burned bulbs and I replaced them. When I brought my car to the mechanic he found that the problem was the hazard warning switch and fixed it. I suspect it got broken because of the street holes. Everything was all right until yesterday when the instrument panel lights haven't turned on. There is a dimmer that could be broken, I tried to open the dashboard but it's quite difficult and I haven't found any tutorial in internet. I think I'm going to meet the mechanic again.

my job I'm working as a researcher at my university, I studied biotechnology, but until now all my assignments have been about chemical analysis. The last project in which I took part was about finding biological backgrounds and blood markers of major depression. This can help psychiatrists to distinguish depression from other illnesses that sometimes have the same symptoms. We focused our attention to the cell membrane of platelets and we worked in teams with different tasks, mine analyzed the composition of the cell membrane while the other teams studied the oxidative stress, signal transmission proteins and the expression of genes related to the membrane. At the end of the project, we organized a congress to show our results and we invited various scientists to lecture about their researches on the study of the brain and its relation with quantum physics.

which one is correct? I play judo/I do judo/I practice judo/something else?

Why I'm learning English During my school years I've always studied English as a second language, but I've never had the opportunity to practice it intensively cause during classes we mostly studied grammar and just a little of conversation. After the end of the school I've continued to practice my English by reading books and watching movies without subtitles, now I can understand mostly everything but I'm still missing some passages, let's say I'm able to understand the 80% of a movie. My biggest problem in English is my low fluency in speaking due to the lack of talking time. I had a chance to speak English for quite a long time twice in my life, during volunteer workcamps in Spain and Germany. I found it very useful and I think I've learned a lot during those days. I want to improve my speaking skills because I'm working as a researcher in the Biotechnology field, English is the common language in the scientific world and I could have the opportunity to relocate in a foreign country to find jobs. Another reason is that I loved the experiences I had in volunteer workcamps and I'd like to repeat them, having the skills to explain yourself is very important in an international environment with people from different cultures and it can help to make friends and solve problems.