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Day 5 (30-day challenge) - Case with a cup in Argentina Pause hang in mid-air. A man in an expensive tuxedo and red bow-tie stood up and went to the open window and wrinkled from the noise outgoing from the outside. In the yard, children shouted in the sanbox, two men argued lively on the bench, a woman from the balcony shouted to someone that he is a scoundrel and she will never forgive him, and her lover tried to outvioce her, making excuses. Only three men with typically gangster’s look, in a dark sunglasses and dressed in all black, stood next to the one of the doords, without making a sound. Man in a red bow-tie turned away from the window, said something in a sharp tone to the presented in the room people, and left the room. He went down the stairs, where his bodyguards was waiting for him for two hours already. Balcony drama, seemed, has reached its apogee. Woman’s scream turned into a real screech, and her lover already hadn’t even tried to make an exuses and just shut up, kneeling down. Man in an expensive tuxedo moved forvard, crossing the yard. Bodyguards looked around because of the happening there, and the man tried to disengage from the annoying noise and screams, and walked as fast as possible. Overtaked with the grief-lover sitting on his knees, the man shaddered: in santimeter from him wizzed and broke into pieces a tea cup, which raging woman on the balcony run into her deary-beloved cheater. The guards immediately became alarmed and rushed on the man in a red bow-tie, bend him down to the ground. In a second 12 caliber brand new bullet wizzed over their heads.. 15 minutes later, being fully safe in his car, the man in tuxedo smiled a little. “Now is my turn”. P.S. This case of 1932 residents of one of the argentinian houses discussed for a long time, convincing themselves that the broken cup is a precursor of unprecedented luck.
12 juli 2020
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Day 4 (30-day challenge) - What’s the difference between “blueberry” and ...”blueberry”? In Russian In previous text I told you that in Russia we like to go to the forest to pick blueberries. But I found out there are 2 types of berries in Russia with the same name “blueberry” in English, and in Russian they have different names: “chernika” and “golubika”. To be honest, during my trips to Europe or Asia I’ve never seen the one that we call “chernika” in stores/ markets. Only “golubika” was sold there. So these berries actually look and taste similar, but still there are some differences. I’ll briefly tell you about them. Berries has differences in color, size, shape and taste. “Chernika” berries are smaller, has more darker color – sometimes very dark blue or almost black color, and their taste is more like sweety-sour. “Golubika” berries are bigger, has lighter blue color, fruits are more fleshy and thick, their taste sometimes sweet, sometimes tasteless, but more often just neutral. Juice of “Chernika” has dark red or dark violet color, and it stains mouth, hands and even your clothes if you weren’t accurate by chance. “Chernika” fruits have round shape, and “Golubika” has a bit elongated shape. “Chernika” more high-calorie, and it contains ascorbic acid and antioxidants. “Chernika” improves the immune system, helps for eyesight, strenghten the retina. “Golubika” uses for diets for losing weight, heart and blood vessels strenghtening, cell regeneration. On the picture below you can see both of them and comparing of their differences. But guess which one is Chernika and which one is Golubika? :)
12 juli 2020
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Day 3 (30-day challenge) - Do you like picking berries? I do. Blueberry is one of the most useful forest berries. It usually rippens in the middle of summer – in July, and it grows in a pine and spruse forest, often around swamps and on the hillside as a small bushes. City dweller can easily understand that blueberry season starts, when near the metro stations appear old ladies who sell portioned plastic glasses or small baskets with blueberry. Since I live in suburbs, and there is a forest not far from my house, not nesessary to me to buy berries – I can pick berries myself in my free time. Since my childhood I fond of going to the forest for mushrooms and berries. Privacy, sounds of forest, birdsongs, special smell – it’s like a meditation, what especially city dwellers need with all our stress. Some people like to pick berries by hand harvester – this device looks like small scoop with prongs. It makes picking process faster, and hands are less getting dirty. But I prefer to pick berries by hand. The main thing is not to stain the clothes, because blueberry juice is almost impossible to wipe off. Nevertheless if you stain clothes with blueberry, you can definitely throw it out. I adore to eat the berries fresh, especially while picking it, or to make mousse of it.
11 juli 2020
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Day 2 (30-day challenge) - The thing that I miss this summer This is my first summer of the last 2 years that i spend in Russia. Last years I was in Turkey this time. With the onset of summer, going for walks, I realized that I'm deficient* something (*can I say like this?). But couldn't understand what exactly. In the middle of June the warm weather finally came to us, and I went to sunbathe to the beach of Finnish Gulf. By bus it takes only 40 minutes from my home. When I came to the beach I realized what exacltly bothered me all this time. I miss the sea very much! Finnish Gulf is a part of the sea too. The Baltic Sea. But the Gulf doesn't compared with the real southern sea. The water of the Gulf is fresh and dark, and half of summer it blooms, so there are a lot of green seaweeds float in it, stink of which just spreads around the beach. I dream again to find myself on the southern sea, with its turquoise water, its waves resembled to white lambs, and its unique smell.. The sea.. P.S. While I was writing this text my friend just suddenly sent me a short video with the sea view. I'm in shock. The universe responded! Haha
2 juli 2020
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Deze inhoud schendt onze communityrichtlijnen.1 juli 2020
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The City Day My city is a beautiful cultural capital of Russia - Saint-Petersburg. And this year we celebrated its 317th Birthday. However, this wasn't always the case. The annual celebration of City Day began only in 1957. Before, the City Day was celebrated only once in a century. The tradition of celebration was founded by Emperor Alexander I. To the 100th anniversary of the city founding, Emperor ordered to decorate Saint-Petersburg and to fire a salvo from cannons from the Admiralty, the Peter and Paul Fortress, and also from the whole flotilia on the Neva - in honor to city founder Peter the Great. The 200th anniversary of the city was more grandiose. There was a large scale procession in historic suits and then the dinner party was set in the Summer Garden for the invited foreign guests. The city was ornate (or richly) decorated with elements of marine theme (anchors, coats of arms, St. Andrew's flags). The celebration was lead same like previous onу - under the fire a salvo from cannons from the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the salute and the grand opening of the Trinity Bridge by Nicholas II. The next global celebration took place during the Soviet era in 1957. The celebration was with a huge scale and lasted 16 days. At the same time, there was thу great opening of the museum of the Aurora cruiser, and the steam engine on which Vladimir Lenin retutred from Finland to Russia was installed on the Finnish (railway) Station. Since then, the celebration of City Day in St.-Petersburg became regular.
28 juni 2020
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Communal apartment Do you know what communal apartment is? Communal apartments became one of the symbols of Soviet era in Russia. Communal apartment is a kind of mini-dormitory, when in one apartment of 3-8 rooms in each room setteled on family. At the same time toilet, bathroom and kitchen are shared. Such apartments in the past belonged to the rich people. And in a such apartment more than 30 years my cousine lived. She was lucky, in those sence, that their apartment consists in only 3 rooms, two of which are belonged to her family and the third one was belonged to her neighbour. And, according to the classics of the genre, a neighbor of course was harmful old woman. Live with such a person, in principle, very difficult, and that is even more difficult when a person is not your relative, but only a neighbor. Few years ago, when this old woman became too old, relatives took her to their home to care of her. And her granddaugher moved into this room, with her husband, two kids and a cat. New neighbours were polite and quiet as much as they could. But anyways live together such a big community is really difficult. Because you have to share bathroom and kitchen in the mornings, when everyone is going to work or school, and in the evenings, when everyone returns home, preparing to eat and want to relax. In general, spent many years, time and effort to pass the “seven circles of hell” of Russian bureaucratic system, the family of my cousin got a small amount of compensation money from the state, added their own money and had agreed with the neighbors to bought their room. Now the whole apartment belongs to my cousin and her family. She gave birth to a child and makes repairs in a “new” apartment. And I’m very happy for her.
28 april 2015
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Boşlukları gerekli ekleri doldurmak 1. Ben, Ahmet'in evi yanında oturuyorum. 2. Biz Meryem'in abla__ koca__ telefon ediyoruz. 3. Süleymaniye Cami'nin mimarı kimdir? 4. Türkıye'nin en büyük şehri hangisidir? 5. Beşiktas iskelenin yanında ne var? 6. Karadeniz'in insanları balıkçıdır. 7. Bizim sınıfızım perdenin rengi beyaz. 8. Anne__ kedi__ tüy__ çok yuymak. 9. Kışın büyük şehirlerde hava__ çok kirlidir. 10. Kedi masanın altında uyuyor.
24 maart 2015
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Zeyneb'i nasıl bulmak (How to find Zeynep) There is a map on the picture. I should find an alternative way to Zeynep, which she's explaing by the phone to hef friend, who just came to visit her. İşte benim sürümü (Here's my version): Müdürlük biraz daha sola dönmek. Sonra büyük kavşağa kadar dümdüz gitmek ve sola Anafartalar Caddesi'nde dönmek. Bir küçük kavşak geçmek ve ikinci kavşakte sağa dönmek. Burada büyük bir bulvar, onun adı Yüzüncü bulvarı. Diğer tarafta Çiçek Pasta Evi var. Biraz daha izlemek ve sonraki küçük kavşakte sola dönmek. Zeynep burada. Hoş geldin!
24 maart 2015
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